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Oversee the accounting department, personnel, policies, internal controls, financial close, reconciliations, journal entries, inventory accounting, fixed assets, leases, commissions, and financial reporting. Manage project WIP processes, including cost updates, change orders, deposits, cash collections, margin variance analysis, and monthly reporting to leadership.

Owns the operations and finance product roadmap, configuration, support, controls, access governance, and continuous improvement for COINS and connected ERP systems. Responsibilities include construction accounting, financial close, job costing, WIP, billing, procurement, testing, implementations, incident resolution, training, adoption, and segregation-of-duties remediation. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, maintains enterprise standards, supports audits and SOX readiness, and ensures reliable, scalable processes across operating companies.

Owns the enterprise payroll product and support experience, including roadmap, requirements, configuration governance, compliance controls, testing, releases, implementations, and production support. Leads payroll issue resolution, reconciliations, integrations, customer communications, knowledge management, and continuous improvement across multi-state operating companies. Partners with Payroll, Finance, HR, Operations, Systems, vendors, and auditors to ensure accurate, compliant, scalable payroll and successful conversions, cutovers, and stabilization.

Owns full-cycle ERP implementations across operating companies, including governance, configuration, change control, testing, data migration validation, training, go-live, stabilization, and transition to support. Ensures continuity across billing, cash collection, payroll, purchasing, job costing, WIP, project accounting, and financial close. Drives issue resolution, risk management, business readiness, user adoption, and executive decision-making while enforcing implementation standards and measurable outcomes.

Lead end-to-end M&A integrations as a hands-on project manager: build and run detailed plans, coordinate Finance/Operations/Systems/Talent, manage concurrent integrations, drive first-90-day outcomes, report to VP, support playbook improvements, and lead change management with operating company teams.