Strategic CFO – Scale Financial Ops & Growth

Diverse Staffing; Indianapolis (IN); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 320 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Diverse Staffing in Indianapolis seeks a Chief Financial Officer to lead financial strategy across the company and affiliates. You will build scalable finance operations, strengthen controls, and guide capital decisions to support profitable growth.

The role requires senior leadership in staffing or related fields, expert multi-state payroll, GAAP reporting, and strong partnerships with the executive team. You will drive FP&A, risk management, and automation of financial systems to scale the

Qualifications

• Master's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related discipline, or equivalent senior-level business experience.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible financial experience within a major company, large corporate division, or comparably complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with an Executive Team and advising owners or senior business leaders.
• Strong command of cash management, corporate finance, financial accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and internal controls.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in multi-state payroll taxes and workforce-related financial compliance.
• Experience managing privately held, multi-entity accounting operations.
• Experience leading financial planning and analysis and supporting mergers and acquisitions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and executive leadership skills.
• Ability to travel as business needs require.

Responsabilités

• Own and execute the enterprise-wide financial strategy for Diverse Staffing and its affiliated entities.
• Lead capital planning, cash forecasting, margin strategy, budgeting, and financial risk modeling.
• Establish financial guardrails for business growth, acquisitions, investments, and new service lines.
• Develop financial performance measures that support the company's strategic direction.
• Evaluate capital requests and ensure resources are aligned with organizational priorities.
• Participate in major business decisions as a member of the Executive Team.
• Direct all accounting functions, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, revenue recognition, and financial close.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and audit-ready financial reporting across the enterprise.
• Design and maintain internal controls appropriate for a multi-entity organization with payroll and EOR exposure.
• Oversee external audits, tax reviews, and regulatory or compliance examinations.
• Strengthen reporting standards, operational controls, and financial best practices.
• Ensure sufficient cash flow and debt financing to support organizational needs.
• Provide executive oversight for high-volume, multi-state payroll funding and execution.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax requirements.
• Guide payroll tax strategy, filings, reconciliations, and audits.
• Address W-2 and 1099 classification requirements.
• Identify and mitigate exposure related to EOR, co-employment, wage-and-hour, and workforce compliance.
• Monitor relevant legislative and regulatory developments.
• Evaluate the organization’s overall risk profile and maintain appropriate insurance coverage.
• Ensure effective integration among ATS, HR, payroll, finance, and procurement systems.
• Oversee financial and procurement platforms such as Sage, Concur, and comparable enterprise systems.
• Use automation to improve financial controls, purchasing, expense management, data integrity, and reporting accuracy.
• Partner with technology leadership to support system security, data governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Evaluate opportunities to use AI-enabled platforms to improve financial operations and decision-making.
• Serve as the organization’s EOS financial seat owner.
• Own financial Scorecards, Rocks, and Level 10 meeting responsibilities.
• Build, mentor, and develop a scalable finance and payroll team.
• Lead succession planning and support effective leadership transitions.
• Manage strategic relationships with investors, bankers, auditors, and professional service providers.
• Review, evaluate, and approve vendor contracts and agreements.
• Assess agreements for alignment with financial controls, risk standards, company requirements, and operational needs.
• Advise business leaders on client MSAs, payroll and EOR agreements, partnership structures, entity structures, risk allocation, and indemnification concepts.
• Partner with external legal counsel when specialized legal guidance is required. This position does not practice law.

Connaissances

Executive leadership

Cash management

Corporate finance

Financial accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Internal controls

Multi-entity accounting

Payroll compliance

Financial planning

M&A support

Communication

Travel

Formation

Master's degree in accounting/finance/BA

Outils

Microsoft Excel

Description du poste

Diverse Staffing in Indianapolis seeks a Chief Financial Officer to lead financial strategy across the company and affiliates. You will build scalable finance operations, strengthen controls, and guide capital decisions to support profitable growth.

The role requires senior leadership in staffing or related fields, expert multi-state payroll, GAAP reporting, and strong partnerships with the executive team. You will drive FP&A, risk management, and automation of financial systems to scale the