Building Your Finance Team As You Scale

Behind every well-run construction business there is a strong commercial accounting backbone: reporting you can trust, accurate margin analysis, a reliable view of the forward position, and a commercially minded accountant supporting the business owner on decisions that shape the business. The harder questions are what it costs to build this capacity in your team, and when to start.

What you need from that backbone changes as you grow. The finance function that suits a business winning its first few large contracts is very different from the one running behind a builder past a hundred million in revenue. This masterclass walks through that journey stage by stage, so you can see where your business sits now and what the next stage asks of you.

The maturity journey we’ll walk through

We’ll work through four stages, from the foundations a young business needs to what a mature finance team looks like at the top end.

• Startup. Building good disciplines from the start, with reliable bookkeeping and cost tracking at a job-by-job level, so you can trust the numbers you’re working from.
• Growth. Where basic bookkeeping stops being enough, and financial control starts to matter: reporting you can rely on, and clear visibility of performance job by job.
• Scaling. Bringing in CFO-level thinking, where the finance function moves from recording performance to actively shaping it.
• Established, 100M+. What a well-oiled finance team looks like at the top end, and how the roles fit together.

What we’ll cover along the way

• The finance roles a business needs at each stage, and the sequence they tend to come in.
• When each role earns its place, so you’re not hiring ahead of the need or leaving a gap open too long.
• What it costs to build a finance team, and where most growing builders start.
• Building an internal team versus outsourcing, and onshore versus offshore, weighed up honestly with the trade-offs of each.
• What to look for when you’re hiring, particularly if you don’t have a strong finance background yourself.
• Where tax fits, and why your tax accountant and your commercial accountant need to be working together.

What you’ll walk away with

• A clear view of where your business sits on the journey, and what the next stage asks of you.
• A sense of what to build next, and what it’s likely to cost.
• The confidence to make a finance hire, or an outsourcing decision, with a clear view of the options.

Yours to take away

• Position descriptions for each key finance role, from bookkeeper through to CFO.
• A salary guide for each role, so you can benchmark what these roles cost.

Register today

If you’d prefer a one-on-one session, get in touch to book a consultation.