<p>Robert Half is seeking a hands-on CFO to lead financial strategy, infrastructure, and daily finance operations for a fast-growing, multi-entity lumber company in the Opelousas, Louisiana area company. This role will partner closely with the CEO and ownership team while remaining actively involved in accounting, cash flow, inventory, margin analysis, banking, and operational performance. This is a direct hire, permanent position offering a competitive compensation, bonus potential, full benefits package, and hybrid/flexible scheduling. </p><p><br></p><p>The ideal candidate will have experience in manufacturing, distribution, building materials, forestry products, or other inventory-intensive, multi-location businesses. This person must be able to operate strategically and tactically, helping scale the business through strong financial leadership, process improvement, and operational insight.</p><p><br></p><p>Key Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Advise leadership on financial strategy, growth planning, capital structure, and performance.</li><li>Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and KPI reporting across multiple entities and locations.</li><li>Oversee accounting operations, including close, reconciliations, AP/AR, payroll, fixed assets, consolidations, and financial reporting.</li><li>Manage cash flow, liquidity forecasting, banking relationships, lender compliance, debt, and working capital.</li><li>Provide oversight of inventory valuation, costing, margin analysis, and operational finance.</li><li>Standardize controls, reporting, and accounting policies across business units.</li><li>Support acquisitions, integrations, systems improvement, and scalable financial infrastructure.</li><li>Ensure compliance with GAAP, audit readiness, tax requirements, and risk management.</li><li>Lead and develop the finance and accounting team.</li></ul>
We are looking for an Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our team in Carencro, Louisiana. In this role, you will manage invoicing, payment application, account follow-up, and reconciliation activities that support healthy cash flow and accurate customer accounts. You will partner with operations, project teams, finance, and customers to address billing questions, resolve outstanding items, and keep receivables current.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Create customer invoices using contract terms, project records, purchase orders, time entries, pricing details, and other required backup.<br>• Examine billing support carefully to confirm completeness and accuracy before submitting invoices to customers.<br>• Coordinate with project and operations teams to gather missing approvals, tickets, timesheets, purchase orders, and other documents needed for billing.<br>• Track aged receivables and carry out collection follow-up in line with established company practices.<br>• Communicate with customers regarding invoice progress, expected payment dates, overdue balances, supporting documents, and billing concerns.<br>• Record collection efforts, customer responses, disputed items, and next steps, and elevate higher-risk aging issues to finance leadership when needed.<br>• Investigate and resolve rejected invoices, payment shortages, credits, deductions, unapplied cash, and other account discrepancies with internal stakeholders.<br>• Post customer payments promptly and accurately while researching unidentified receipts, overpayments, and mismatched remittances.<br>• Prepare receivables reports, account reconciliations, aging summaries, and billing schedules, and assist with month-end, year-end, and audit support requests.