ABOUT PLATINUM PEST SOLUTIONS
Platinum Pest Solutions is a commercial pest control company headquartered in Lansing, Illinois, with operating locations in Milwaukee and Indianapolis. We protect multifamily apartment portfolios and commercial properties through general pest, bed bug, and canine inspection services. We employ more than 80 people and we are growing into new markets.
The company runs on EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System. That means clear seats, clear numbers, quarterly Rocks, and a weekly leadership rhythm where the person accountable for a number brings that number.
Our core values are Dream Big, Positive Optimistic Energy, Great Customer Service, Compassion, and Platinum Pride. We hire against them and we manage against them.
Finance at Platinum has been carried by an outside fractional CFO. That arrangement served the company well through an earlier stage, and the business has now outgrown it. As we operate across three markets and move onto a new technology platform, we need a finance leader inside the building who owns the numbers end to end.
This is a build seat, not a maintain seat. The Finance Director will bring accounting in house, stand up the controls and reporting a multi location service business requires, and give the leadership team financial information they can act on weekly rather than quarterly. The person who takes this role will be building the function they run for the next several years.
Reporting and Close
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Own the monthly close and drive it to a consistent, predictable calendar.
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Produce the monthly reporting package: consolidated profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and location level results with commentary.
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Build fully loaded location profit and loss statements so each market carries its true cost of support, and maintain the allocation methodology behind them.
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Own the chart of accounts, revenue recognition by service line, and a written accounting policy manual.
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Deliver unit economics by service line, by market, and by account so pricing and route decisions are made on facts.
Cash, Credit, and Planning
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Own the rolling 13-week cash forecast and review it with the President weekly.
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Manage banking relationships, debt schedules, covenant tracking, and verification that loan payments are applied as agreed.
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Lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecast, built with the leadership team and tied to quarterly Rocks.
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Model the financial case for new locations, facility decisions, fleet investment, and major vendor commitments.
Revenue Cycle and Collections
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Own accounts receivable, the aging, and collections. Set and report days sales outstanding and bad debt targets.
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Drive autopay adoption across the customer base. This is a named priority for the seat and one of the clearest cash conversion opportunities in the business.
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Establish bad debt reserve and write off policies and hold the company to them.
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Partner with Operations and Client Success so billing disputes are resolved at the source rather than in collections.
Controls, Payables, and Compliance
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Bring the accounts payable cycle in house and maintain clear segregation of duties across payables, receivables, and cash application.
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Own expense management controls in Ramp, including card policy, approval thresholds, receipt discipline, and monthly spend review.
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Own vendor management and contract review for recurring spend across fleet, insurance, information technology, and subcontractors.
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Manage sales tax, business licensing, insurance audits, and coordination with the outside tax accountant.
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Own payroll processing and the finance side of benefits administration in partnership with Human Resources.
Systems and the Technology Transition
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Serve as the finance owner for the migration from PestPac to Fieldwork, and for the integration with QuickBooks and HubSpot.
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Validate that revenue, billing, and job costing data flow correctly through go live. Data integrity through the transition is a priority for this seat.
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Build reporting that pulls from the system of record rather than from side spreadsheets.
Leadership
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Hold the Finance seat on the leadership team and bring weekly Scorecard measurables the team can act on.
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Hire, develop, and lead the billing and accounting staff as the function grows.
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Translate financial results into plain language for service managers and field leaders who do not work in finance every day.
First 90 Days
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Day to day accounting fully transitioned from the outside fractional CFO with no gap in close, payroll, or vendor payment.
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A documented close calendar and month end checklist in use.
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A rolling 13-week cash forecast live and reviewed weekly.
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Segregation of duties established across the payables cycle.
First 12 Months
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Monthly close completed on calendar, every month, without heroics.
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Fully loaded location profit and loss statements in production for all three markets.
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Autopay adoption materially increased and measured weekly on the Scorecard.
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Bad debt measured, reserved, and trending down.
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Financials that are clean, documented, and stand up to review by lenders, insurers, and outside partners.
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A finance function staffed and structured to support expansion into new markets.
Required
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Bachelor degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
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Seven or more years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including at least three leading a function or a team.
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Hands on ownership of a full monthly close in a company with multiple locations or profit centers.
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Strong QuickBooks experience and advanced Excel.
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Working proficiency with AI tools. Platinum runs on Claude Team. We expect our finance leader to use it directly for analysis, documentation, and reporting, and to raise the standard for how the rest of the company uses it.
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Direct experience with receivables, collections, and cash forecasting in a recurring revenue or route based business.
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A builder temperament. You are comfortable writing the process that does not exist yet, and doing the work yourself until there is someone to hand it to.
Preferred
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CPA or CMA.
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Background in field service, route based services, facilities services, or the trades. Pest control, HVAC, landscaping, security, and janitorial are all strong fits.
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Experience through an ERP implementation or system migration on the finance side.
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Experience in a company between 15 and 50 million dollars in revenue.
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Familiarity with EOS or a similar operating system.
You will do well in this seat if you like being close to the field, if you would rather fix the process than write a note about the report, and if you want your work visible to the people who own the company. You will have real authority and a short path to a decision.
You will not do well here if you need a large department behind you, if you prefer working only from finished data, or if you want the systems to already be built. They are not built yet. That is the job.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
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Base salary range of 125,000 to 150,000 dollars, depending on experience and credentials.
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Annual performance bonus targeted at 15 to 25 percent of base, tied to company and individual results.
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Long-term equity incentive.
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Health, dental, and vision coverage. Platinum contributes 60 percent of the premium across all coverage tiers, including family.
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401k retirement plan with a 4 percent company match.
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Three weeks of paid time off, plus company holidays.
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A seat on the leadership team with direct access to ownership.
Send a resume along with a short note describing a finance function you built or rebuilt. Tell us what it looked like before, what you changed, and what it looked like after. We read those notes.
