Lead and build the finance function for a PE-backed, multi-branch services platform. Own financial strategy, reporting, forecasting, treasury, tax, insurance, IT strategy, and M&A financial integration. Partner with CEO, operations, and the sponsor to drive cash management, branch-level profitability, controls, and scalable systems while recruiting and developing a finance team.

Lead positioning, messaging, and influence campaigns to win federal buyers. Create high-quality long-form content, social engagement, events, and demand-generation funnels. Manage vendors, run rapid experiments with AI-native tooling, and own strategy and hands-on execution as the company's sole marketer to drive pipeline and credibility against large incumbents.

Lead financial strategy for a fast-growing defense tech hardware business with government contracts. Build and own financial models against the contract backlog, drive long-range planning, budgeting and pricing, manage working capital across long lead times and government payment timing, direct outsourced accounting and CPA relationship, and act as a strategic thought partner to the founders.