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Chief Financial Officer

Dallas, Texas, United States; Omaha, Nebraska, United States; Overland Park, Kansas, United States; Phoenix, Arizona, United States

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our executive leadership team and help guide the next chapter of our firm’s growth. This is a high-impact leadership role at the center of a 100% employee-owned S-ESOP firm, where financial strategy directly connects to the value we create for every employee-owner. This role can be based in the following cities: 

  • Overland Park, KS
  • Dallas, TX
  • Omaha, NE
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Minneapolis, MN 

Position Summary 

The CFO is a critical member of DLR Group’s executive leadership team and a strategic partner to the CEO. You will define and execute the financial vision of a global, rapidly growing, multidisciplinary design enterprise. The CFO leads financial strategy, enterprise planning, reporting, capital management, payroll, and financial risk oversight—with a strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, and future readiness. 

As steward of both financial performance and our employee-ownership culture, the CFO ensures financial decisions align with long-term value creation for employee-owners while building the systems and structure to support a $500M+ global design firm. 

What you will do:

  • Lead the development and execution of financial strategies that enable sustainable growth and global expansion
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable financial systems, processes, and controls
  • Oversee financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting to ensure clarity and strategic alignment
  • Evaluate and partner on mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic opportunities; manage financial due diligence and integration
  • Proactively manage financial risk, liquidity, and capital allocation
  • Serve as fiduciary steward of the ESOP, ensuring compliance, transparency, and the long-term protection of employee-owner equity
  • Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing finance team that can support a dynamic, global enterprise
  • Represent the firm’s financial interests with external stakeholders including auditors, banks, and appraisers
  • Collaborate with executive leadership to align financial strategy with operational and enterprise priorities

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field required; advanced degree not required, but preferred
  • Minimum 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience in a large, multi-sector global organization, ideally in AEC or professional services
  • Proven success leading finance through growth, transformation, or operational scale-up
  • Proficiency with ERP systems (Deltek Vantagepoint preferred) and advanced financial modeling/reporting
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills, capable of balancing long-term vision with near-term execution
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration with executive leadership and employee stakeholders
  • Deep appreciation for – or direct experience with – ESOP structures and employee ownership
  • Demonstrated leadership of diverse, high-performing teams

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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

 

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