Director, Finance – Dayton & Engineering Solutions

White Cap; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

White Cap seeks a senior finance leader to drive financial strategy and execution, enabling growth and efficiency. You will oversee planning, forecasting, and budgeting while partnering with business teams to improve profitability.

Expect to mentor staff, enhance controls, and lead capital and cost initiatives, including M&A support and incentive modeling. Located in a dynamic environment with strategic impact.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in related discipline; 9+ years of experience in a related field, including management/supervisory capacity.
• Experience leading financial strategy and execution across a growing organization.

Responsibilities

• Leads financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.
• Oversees monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A.
• Guides strategic decision-making with data-driven insights and financial modeling.
• Ensures compliance with internal controls, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to drive profitability.
• Develops and mentors finance associates to build expertise.
• Implements process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Collaborates with senior leadership to align financial goals with strategy.
• Supports mergers, acquisitions, and due diligence.
• Communicates financial performance and risks to stakeholders.
• Oversees commission calculations and timely payments to associates.
• Partners with HR to model and fund bonus plans.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Budgeting

Financial modeling

Data insights

Leadership

Mentorship

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/BA in related discipline

Tools

Power BI

AI-enabled tools

Job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

Job Summary

Responsible for leading financial strategy and execution to support business growth, operational efficiency, and fiscal responsibility.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities And Key Accountabilities

• Leads financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.
• Oversees monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning and analysis.
• Guides strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and financial modeling.
• Ensures compliance with internal controls, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives and drive profitability.
• Develops and mentors associates within the finance team to build expertise and teamwork.
• Implements process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency.
• Collaborates with senior leadership to align financial goals with company strategy.
• Supports mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transformations with financial due diligence.
• Communicates financial performance and risks clearly and consistently to stakeholders.
• Oversees commission calculations and ensures accurate, timely payments to associates.
• Partners with HR and compensation teams to model, fund, and execute bonus plans.

Nature and Scope

• Problems are typically defined by higher level leadership. Problems are difficult. Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Decides how to achieve planned results within an organization’s plans, policies, and guidelines. May set or change plans/goals within respective department or area.
• May manage department via multiple layers of managers OR directly supervise a staff of professional individual contributors at the senior or technical advisor level.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Education And Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing, fabrication, rental, distribution, or other operations‑intensive businesses.
• Proven ability to identify and execute margin improvement opportunities through pricing, sourcing, productivity, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Experience evaluating and leading make‑versus‑buy, facility optimization, and capacity utilization analyses.
• Strong understanding of operational performance drivers including labor productivity, plant efficiency, fleet utilization, and asset productivity.
• Experience developing business unit, product line, and location‑level profitability reporting and performance metrics.
• Demonstrated success building KPI frameworks and management reporting processes across multiple businesses or operating units.
• Experience developing capital investment business cases, prioritizing investments, and measuring return on invested capital.
• Ability to lead business transformation initiatives involving systems, reporting, organizational design, or process standardization.
• Advanced analytical and data visualization skills, including Power BI and AI‑enabled tools for business insights and decision support.

White Cap is an Equal Opportunity Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran and affirmative action Employer. White Cap considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law.