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- Drivecommercial performancethrough finance, estimating& fleetacross a $100m+ civil and construction group
- Brisbane or Toowoomba base with flexibility

- Career track to CEO
- Drivecommercial performancethrough finance, estimating& fleetacross a $100m+ civil and construction group
- Brisbane or Toowoomba base with flexibility

Why You Will Be Excited About This Role

Utilise yourbroadcommercial skills in this non-traditionalCFO rolewith a career track to CEO. You will step into a newly created executive position in a privately owned civil and construction group,dealing directly with the CEO,OwnersandAdvisoryBoard. You willtakeenterprise-wide ownership of commercial performance, projectprofitabilityand financial insight.

Your impact will be highly visible. You will help the businessidentifyproject risk early, protect margins andhelp othersmake better commercial decisions as it continues to grow.

- Drive greatervisibilitythrough key leading indicatorsof project P&Ls;, forecasts,marginsand commercial risk
- Shape systems,dashboardsand project review disciplines
- Lead key business functions while influencing commercial performance across civil and construction

Success will mean stronger forecasting, earlier intervention on project issues and better commercial capability across the organisation.

Why Will You Like Working Here

Withaturnoverexceeding$100m, multiple concurrent projects and both civil infrastructure and commercial construction operations, there is genuine scale and complexity to influence-without the layers of a large corporate.Having a strong regionaltrack recordandinfluence thebusinessgenerally targetsprojects around $5m–$10m, while selectively taking on larger work and having successfully delivered projects above $30m.

- Practical, family-orientedand relationship-driven culture
- Direct access to seniordecision-makers
- Brisbane or Toowoomba base, depending on your circumstances
- Chance to help shape the next stage of growth and succession

What You Will Be Working On





Your role is to help the business see what is coming, not simply report what has already happened.

You will strengthen forecasting, costcontroland project-commercial discipline across the group, bringing together project performance, programmes, contracts, financialinformationand risk.

Your priorities will include:

- Improving forecast accuracy, costcontroland margin visibilityby reporting on key lead indicators that matter
- Supporting and developingdisciplined commercial reviews across multiple projects
- Identifyingproject slippage and commercial risk early
- Strengthening contract,investmentand capital governance
- Building practical dashboards and integrating project and financial information
- Improving visibility around fleet ownership,utilisationand recovery
- Developing commercial,financeand project capability across the business

What Type of Person Will Be Successful

You will combine senior-level commercial judgement with a willingness to get into the detail when it matters.Your financial background has seen you gravitate towards leading rather than lag indicators but you still know how to manage and develop the finance team for compliance and reporting matters.

You are likely to come from civil infrastructure, construction, contracting or another project-based environment where project margins, contracts and forecasting are central to performance.

You will bring:

- Senior commercial or financial leadership experience
- Strong project P&L;, forecasting,contractand margin capability
- Experience leading and developing finance and commercial teams
- Confidenceinchallenging, andchangingpoor information or weak decisions
- Strong financial literacy and executive-level communication skills
- The ability to turn project detail into clear, actionable commercial insight

Qualifications may come from construction management, quantity surveying, law,accountingor finance. More important is deep hands-on construction-commercial experience.

Relevant backgrounds may include Commercial Director, CFO, Head of Commercial or senior project-commercial leadership roles.

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📌 CFO (Construction) (Toowoomba Regional)
🏢 Carroll Consulting Group
📍 Toowoomba Regional