Director of Finance Job at DATTCO, New Britain, CT

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  • DATTCO
  • New Britain, CT

Job Description

About the Role:
The Director of Finance serves as the financial leader for DeVivo Companies, a division of DATTCO, and a key member of the division's leadership team. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role partners closely with executive and operational leaders to drive financial performance, improve decision making, support strategic growth initiatives, and strengthen operational accountability across a complex, multi-location business.

This position blends hands on financial and accounting leadership with strategic financial planning and business partnership. The Director of Finance ensures financial information is accurate, controls are strong, and leaders have the insight needed to improve profitability, cash flow, capital efficiency, and long term business performance.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a finance leader who enjoys being close to the business, influencing real world decisions, and making a meaningful impact within a stable and growing family owned organization.

Why This Role Matters:
Finance plays a critical role in helping DeVivo Companies grow while maintaining the operational excellence and financial discipline that have defined the company for decades.

The Director of Finance serves as a trusted advisor who transforms financial information into business insight. This role helps leaders make confident decisions regarding growth, investments, operations, pricing, capital deployment, and profitability. The work directly influences the organization's ability to improve performance, strengthen financial health, invest wisely, and create sustainable long term success.

What You'll Own
Financial Leadership:

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to the DeVivo Companies leadership team while supporting the CFO on strategic initiatives.
• Translate financial results into meaningful business insights and actionable recommendations.
• Present financial performance, trends, risks, and opportunities to executive leadership.
• Support strategic planning, acquisition analysis, business development initiatives, and other growth opportunities.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to company leadership and operating managers.

Financial Planning & Performance:
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, reforecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Deliver accurate and timely monthly and quarterly financial reporting across multiple operating units.
• Prepare and explain variance analysis compared to budget, forecast, prior year, and operating expectations.
• Develop financial models supporting capital investments, pricing strategies, contract decisions, labor planning, technology investments, and operational initiatives.
• Build dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and performance metrics that improve organizational visibility and accountability.
• Monitor performance against budgets, forecasts, and approved capital plans.

Accounting & Financial Stewardship:
• Oversee monthly close activities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, financial statement reviews, and supporting workpapers.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of balance sheet and income statement reporting.
• Maintain strong internal controls, financial safeguards, approval processes, and compliance with company policies.
• Oversee cash flow, capital planning, working capital management, and financial risk management.
• Support tax, audit, compliance, and external CPA requirements in coordination with Corporate Finance and Accounting.
• Partner with corporate finance and accounting teams to maintain consistent financial processes and reporting across the organization.

Business Partnership & Operational Finance:
• Collaborate closely with operational leaders to improve profitability, productivity, margin performance, and cost discipline.
• Evaluate pricing strategies, customer contracts, fleet investments, labor models, facility improvements, technology initiatives, and capital expenditures.
• Support ROI analysis and investment planning for fleet, equipment, facilities, systems, and business growth initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency while supporting sustainable growth.

Leadership:
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop members of the finance and accounting team.
• Direct and support a team including accounting, accounts receivable, and administrative finance personnel.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and business partnership.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships based on trust, transparency, and shared success.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

What You Bring
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field required.
• CPA, CMA, MBA, or advanced degree preferred.

Experience:
• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience.
• Strong background in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance management.
• Experience leading monthly close processes, financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting operations.
• Experience supporting operational leaders within asset-intensive, multi-location businesses preferred.
• Transportation, fleet, dealership, service, distribution, manufacturing, or similarly complex operational industry experience strongly preferred.
• Proven experience leading finance teams and developing talent.

Skills:
• Strong financial acumen and ability to connect financial performance to business strategy.
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-financial audiences.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence decisions across all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing financial reporting, financial models, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and financial reporting systems.
• High degree of ownership, accountability, sound judgment, and attention to detail.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for helping businesses grow and perform at a higher level.

Travel:
• Occasional travel to company locations throughout the region.

Why Join DeVivo Companies?
• Direct exposure to executive leadership and meaningful business decisions.
• Opportunity to influence strategy, operational performance, and capital investment decisions.
• Visible leadership role with broad impact across a growing organization.
• Family owned company with strong values, long tenured leadership, and a culture built on trust and collaboration.
• Stable business with diverse revenue streams and continued growth opportunities.
• Ability to shape both financial performance and the future direction of the organization.

Benefits:
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Company-Sponsored Benefits Programs
• Employee Assistance Program

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

DATTCO, Inc. participates in E-Verify.

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