The Role | What you'll be doing:
The Director of Finance & Accounting will serve as the strategic financial advisor and will lead accounting operations, financial reporting, and compliance across Zoom Drain's entities as the company scales. This hands-on role owns full-cycle accounting, financial systems, and board reporting while helping build the company's financial infrastructure.
Essential Functions | What you'll own:
Strategy and Partnership
- Serve as the financial advisor to the leadership team on strategic planning
- Act as the primary day-to-day finance contact for our private equity sponsor
- Lead the financial workstreams on each entity (Franchise + Corporate Entity Operations)
Accounting operations
- Own all accounting operations across three legal entities, including AR, AP, general ledger, and month-end close
- Own the AR/AP cycles with customers and vendors, including the systems and controls behind them
- Own the financial systems, including Sage and Ramp, and lead the evaluation of what comes next
- Build and lead the finance team, starting with 1-2 direct reports
Reporting and analysis
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and board reporting
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and cash management
- Build revenue and expense tracking that holds up across entities
- Analyze profitability, cost, and trend data to support operating decisions
Compliance and risk
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax requirements
- Manage the annual audit and external accounting relationships
- Manage the company's insurance program and coverage compliance
- Build the internal controls, policies, and delegations of authority
Qualifications | What you bring:
Required
- 7-10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role
- Full-cycle accounting ownership
- Experience in a private equity-backed or sponsor-owned company, including board and lender reporting
- Experience in a franchise organization, including royalty accounting, franchisee reporting, and FDD financial statement preparation
- Experience managing an audit
- Multi-entity experience, including consolidation and intercompany accounting
- Experience building or materially improving financial reporting, controls, and processes
- Strong command of financial systems and comfort leading an ERP implementation or migration
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
Preferred
- Background in field services, construction, home services, or another trades-based business
- Experience with job costing, labor utilization, and fleet or equipment accounting
- Sell-side or buy-side transaction experience
Who does well here
- You're comfortable in the details. This is a role where the senior-most finance person still reconciles accounts when it matters.
- You've worked without the infrastructure, meaning no FP&A team to build the model, no controller to run the close
- You can translate financial data for operators who don't speak finance
Benefits and Perks | What we offer:- Base Salary ranging from $160,000 - 180,000 plus eligibility for a performance-based annual bonus program
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- SIMPLE IRA with company match up to 3%
- Paid time off and company-paid holidays
- Company-paid Life insurance, short- and long-term disability
- Company gatherings and a supportive team culture
