Director of Finance and Business Operations

Director of Finance and Business Operations

Remote anywhere within the continental United States

Part-time employment with the estimation of 20-30 hours per week

About Us:

@Orchard LLC is a WOSB mission-driven professional services firm supporting federal and commercial clients across scientific, environmental, and technical domains. We support our customers while building a lean, entrepreneurial business. We’re looking for a hands-on Finance and Business Operations leader to build & own our finance and operations functions.

About the Role:

The primary mission of this role is to improve cash flow, profitability, compliance, visibility, and operational leverage across the company.

You will serve as the internal owner of the company’s financial management processes, reporting framework, business controls, governance structure, compliance controls, operational systems, and management information. You will partner closely with leadership, program managers, and other stakeholders involved to ensure the company operates with discipline, visibility, efficiency, and control.

Responsibilities:

• Own the company’s finance and business operations functions that include accounting, government contracting, financial reporting, systems and process operating systems.
• Develop forecasts, budgets, cash-flow projections, profitability models, pricing support tools, and decision-support capabilities.
• Improve working-capital management, customer profitability visibility, contract profitability, task-order profitability, pricing support, indirect-rate management, margin performance, and overall financial efficiency.
• Strengthen financial and operational controls supporting FAR compliance, DCAA readiness, labor-category compliance, project accounting, audit readiness, billing support, indirect-rate management, and contract financial management.
• Ensure contract awards are translated into operational and financial structures that meet government compliance.
• Develop management reporting including but not limited to dashboards, performance metrics, and financial visibility to make informed decisions.
• Design and implement approval workflows, financial controls, operating procedures, and governance processes.
• Develop and design strategy to own continuous improvement process for financial systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial efficiency in new and existing processes.
• Coordinate and direct accounting, payroll, tax and CPA providers on quality control, and improvements.
• Establish performance expectations, accountability, and operating standards that ensure these providers support company objectives and reporting requirements.