Finance & Operations Director: Strategic Growth

@Orchard LLC; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

@Orchard LLC is seeking a Director of Finance & Business Operations to build the financial backbone of a growing government-focused professional services firm. This senior, hands-on role combines strategic finance with direct execution across accounting, FP&A, project economics, controls, and systems.

Reporting to the CEO, you will own budgeting, forecasting, cash, reporting, and internal controls while driving automation and AI-enabled capabilities to improve efficiency, visibility, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration or relevant fields is required.
• Hands-on finance experience spanning accounting and FP&A, including financial modeling, forecasting, close and accounting processes, and management reporting.
• At least 5 years of experience with government contracting economics.
• Experience operating in a small business government contracting environment preferred.
• Hands-on experience establishing, operating, or maintaining government compliant accounting and financial-control environments.
• Experience with the economics of a labor-driven professional-services business, including utilization, labor cost, staffing capacity and overhead.
• Advanced financial modeling and Excel capability, with strong aptitude for data, financial systems, process improvement, and management information.

Responsibilities

• Own cash and liquidity visibility, including 13-week cash forecasting.
• Build and maintain the budget, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, working capital, and profitability analysis.
• Analyze labor economics, utilization, staffing capacity, indirect costs, and overhead.
• Develop management reporting that enables leadership to understand performance, changes, risks, and areas requiring action.
• Own the quality, integrity, and usefulness of accounting results and the underlying financial architecture.
• Review month-end and year-end close, perform variance analysis, and own cost structure, coding standards, AP/AR controls, billing support, and payroll-to-accounting integrity.
• Establish and continuously improve the chart of accounts, cost structure, close design, data organization, and financial controls.
• Establish and Maintain government-compliant accounting and financial-control practices, systems, and supporting records.
• Ensure labor and timekeeping information supports accurate costing, payroll, billing, forecasting, and project controls.
• Own the internal accounting result while leveraging an outsourced accounting provider that posts transactions and performs reconciliations.
• Ensure @Orchard is prepared for Government reviews and audits.
• Translate awarded task orders and contract economics into operating budgets, financial baselines, and management reports.
• Maintain forward visibility and financial control across actuals, burn, ETC/EAC, revenue, margin, billing, funding and ceilings as applicable, forecasts, and exceptions.
• Work closely with Program Managers so emerging financial and economic issues become visible early enough to act.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

FP&A

Cost accounting

Labor costing

Cash forecasting

Management reporting

Data analysis

Leadership

Contracting economics

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

CPA or CMA preferred

Government contracting experience

Tools

ERP systems

Payroll systems

Financial software

Job description

@Orchard LLC is seeking a Director of Finance & Business Operations to build the financial backbone of a growing government-focused professional services firm. This senior, hands-on role combines strategic finance with direct execution across accounting, FP&A, project economics, controls, and systems.

Reporting to the CEO, you will own budgeting, forecasting, cash, reporting, and internal controls while driving automation and AI-enabled capabilities to improve efficiency, visibility, and