Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.
I place finance and accounting professionals at construction and building products companies across Wisconsin and northern Illinois. General contractors and specialty trades, homebuilders, and the manufacturers and distributors that supply them. Construction finance is its own animal, and these companies need people who understand how money moves through a job, not just a general ledger.
Construction accounting works on rules most industries never touch. Percentage of completion, work in process, retainage, and job costing shape every number. A finance hire who has never run a WIP schedule can be lost from the start, and it shows the first time a job goes sideways and someone has to explain why.
Why hiring finance talent for construction is different
Revenue in construction is earned over time, not at a single point of sale, which changes everything. You are recognizing revenue by percentage of completion, tracking costs and billings against each job, managing retainage, and watching over and under billings like a hawk. A blown WIP schedule can hide a loss for months. Finance people who have lived in construction think in jobs and phases, and you can tell within minutes who really has.
There is also the bonding and cash side. Sureties and banks read your financials closely, cash flow swings with the job schedule, and a weak finance function can cost you bonding capacity and work. I screen for people who understand that pressure and can produce numbers a surety will trust.
What construction companies in this region need
Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois have a strong base of general contractors, specialty trade contractors, homebuilders, and building products manufacturers and distributors. Some are established firms with mature finance teams and deep WIP discipline, others are growing contractors that have outgrown a bookkeeper and need real construction accounting for the first time.
Whether you are a contractor that needs a controller who can own the WIP schedule, a builder building out job costing, or a building products company tightening margins, the pattern holds. You need finance people who understand percentage of completion, retainage, and the cash rhythm of running jobs.
The roles I fill in construction
The seats I recruit for map directly into a construction setting. Controllers and assistant controllers who own WIP and job costing. CFOs and VPs of Finance who can manage bonding and banking relationships. FP&A analysts who can model job margins and cash flow. Cost, senior, and staff accountants who keep job costs and billings accurate. Each search is built around how you win and deliver work.
The kind of hire this matters for
This matters most when a bad WIP schedule can hide a losing job until it is too late. Construction punishes weak accounting harder than most industries. When you need a finance hire who understands percentage of completion, retainage, and bonding, that is the search I am built for.
Hiring finance talent for a construction company? Let’s talk about it.
Tell me about the company and the role, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what a realistic search looks like. No pressure and no obligation.
Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.