The Director of Finance serves as the financial backbone of McChrystal Group, providing analytical clarity, strategic insight, and operational rigor to enable leadership to make informed, confident decisions. The role involves hands-on operation, strategic partnership, and financial management, with a focus on leveraging AI and modern tooling to make the finance function faster, more accurate, and more valuable to the business.
Requirements
- Own and manage all core finance functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, monthly close, and tax compliance.
- Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting across the organization.
- Manage cash flow, forecasting, and working capital with appropriate rigor for a professional services environment.
- Maintain internal controls and ensure compliance with applicable regulations and reporting requirements.
- Identify and implement AI and automation tools to reduce manual processing burden in high-volume functions such as AP, reconciliations, and month-end close, while preserving audit-readiness and control integrity.
- Oversee relationships with external accountants, auditors, and banking partners.
- Lead annual budgeting and multi-year financial planning processes in partnership with the executive team.
- Develop and maintain financial models that support strategic decisions around pricing, headcount, capacity, and growth.
- Leverage AI-enabled FP&A tools and natural language querying to accelerate scenario modeling, variance analysis, and financial commentary generation.
- Provide executive leadership with clear, actionable financial visibility: not just what the numbers are, but what they mean and what actions they imply.
- Monitor financial performance against plan, surface variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
- Support due diligence and integration activities for acquisitions or strategic transactions as needed.
- Design and maintain dashboards and reporting frameworks that give leadership and department heads meaningful, real-time financial visibility.
- Leverage data visualization tools such as Power BI with Copilot or equivalent AI-enhanced platforms to surface insights, answer questions in natural language, and reduce time spent on manual report production.
- Use generative AI tools to draft financial narratives, summarize performance, and accelerate the preparation of board-ready materials and executive presentations.
- Champion financial literacy across the organization, enabling non-finance leaders to understand and act on financial information effectively.
- Partner actively with operational, sales, and delivery teams to ensure financial planning is grounded in operational reality.
- Own cross-functional financial processes and surface the right information to the right stakeholders at the right time.
- Function as a connective bridge between the financial picture and the decisions that drive the business forward.
- Lead and develop a small finance team, setting clear goals and supporting professional growth.
- Manage workload distribution, prioritization, and quality standards across the finance function.
- Foster a team culture that embraces AI and modern tooling as a way to do higher-value work, treating it as a capability multiplier rather than a threat.
- Partner with HR on compensation modeling, headcount planning, and people-related financial analysis.
- Build a team culture grounded in accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Employee assistance program
