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FRACTIONAL CFO FOR ROOFING CONTRACTORS.

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We run the finance function for roofing subcontractors doing $1M to $12M: job costing aligned to the way you estimate, a 13 week cash flow forecast, monthly WIP, and a CFO in the room every month. Pricing starts at $1,900 per month.

Roofing pays for material before the job starts and collects after somebody else's approval, so we build the cash system around that backwards cycle. Suppliers collect at delivery, crews collect Friday, and commercial pay applications come back at net-60 to net-90 with retainage on top, while storm work pays actual cash value first and holds recoverable depreciation until documented completion with supplements sitting in an adjuster's queue. We price workers compensation into the hourly burden rather than bidding off base wage, because roofing carries some of the highest comp rates in construction and a bid built on wage alone underprices every hour worked. We also pull indirect labor out of the middle of the income statement, since supervisors, safety, warranty crews, and drive time are neither direct labor nor overhead and go unmeasured in most roofing books.

BY JOSH LUEBKERPublished 2026-08-06Updated 2026-08-06
WHERE ROOFING LOSES MONEY

THE THREE THINGS THAT DRAIN THE CASH.

LEAK 01

The Carrier's Calendar

Storm work pays on the insurance company's schedule, not the roofer's. ACV first, depreciation held to completion, supplements queued for weeks. The roofer finances the gap on every claim.

LEAK 02

Material-First, Paid-Last

Suppliers collect at delivery, crews collect Friday, commercial receivables land at net-60 to net-90 with retainage. The cash conversion cycle runs backward from day one.

LEAK 03

The Thin Cushion

At 6.5 percent net for a $1M to $5M roofer, a single stalled claim or unmeasured indirect labor line erases the quarter. Margin this thin has no room for untracked cost. (cfos-job-profitability-system) ---

HOW SPM FIXES IT

WHAT WE CHANGE.

The insurance money trap (ACV now, depreciation later)
Material-first economics
Thin-cushion margins
The collection problem in plain words
Seasonality with 12-month overhead
PRICING

FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.

Priced by trailing 12 month revenue. No hourly billing. No payroll. No add-ons.

Last 12 months revenueMonthly fee
Up to $1M$1,900 to $2,900
$1M to $3.5M$2,600 to $3,900
$3.5M to $6.5M$3,800 to $5,700
$6.5M to $9.5M$5,100 to $7,100
$9.5M to $12.5M$6,100 to $8,500
$12.5M to $15.5M$7,400 to $11,000
$15.5M to $18.5M$9,400 to $13,500
$18.5M+Quoted individually

Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items.

Core

You stop guessing.

You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions rather than a report.

Your bookkeeper keeps doing the books.

Executive

You stop touching the books.

Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Nobody in your office is answering coding questions or chasing a reconciliation at month end.

We do the books. No payroll.

Strategic

Every job shows its margin while it's still running.

Everything in Executive, plus the job costing and WIP platform set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed for you every month. You never have to learn it.

We do the job costing.

COMMON QUESTIONS

FREQUENTLY ASKED.

Roofing contractors at $1M to $5M net about 6.5 percent before taxes on the SPM 48-trade benchmark dataset, rising to 9 percent by $25M to $50M. CFMA's 2024 Construction Financial Benchmarker puts construction as a whole at 6.3 percent net income before taxes across all respondents, with the best-in-class top quartile at 11.9 percent, so a roofer at 6.5 percent is sitting in the middle of the market rather than ahead of it. SPM holds a 10 percent net profit floor before taxes whatever the trade, because below 10 the business stops paying for the payroll and the personal guarantees the owner signed. /construction-net-profit-margin-benchmarks carries the roofing figure at your revenue band.
Three tiers, and which one you are in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. Core is where you stop guessing: job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a monthly meeting that ends in decisions, while your bookkeeper keeps doing the books. Executive is where you stop touching the books, because we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Strategic is where every job shows its margin while it is still running, because the job costing and WIP platform is set up and managed for you. No payroll. No scope gaps.
Sixty days. We migrate your books back to the start of your last taxable year, set up ControlQore, and build your job costing structure from scratch. Fully operational in two months.
ControlQore is the job costing and WIP platform we use for all clients. Purpose-built for contractors, more affordable than legacy tools, and AI-infused. We set it up and manage it, so you do not have to learn it.
A bookkeeper records what happened. We tell you what it means and what to do about it. We align job costing to your estimates, track WIP monthly, and hold strategic accountability meetings so problems get fixed and not merely documented.
$10.7M+
Client AR Recovered Since 2023
48
Active Trade Specializations
60 DAYS
Average Onboarding Time
WHAT THIS TIES INTO
Josh Luebker, The Construction CFO
Josh Luebker
FRACTIONAL CFO · THE CONSTRUCTION CFO

Former commercial construction project manager and master electrician. Managed 150+ projects worth more than $2.1B combined, with individual jobs from $50,000 to $300M, including data centers, military bases, hospitals, and high-rises. Now fractional CFO for commercial subcontractors doing $1M to $12M through Sulphur Prairie Management.About Josh  | LinkedIn

DO YOU KNOW YOUR TRUE MARGIN ON ROOFING WORK?

Bring one job. We will show you the difference between what you bid and what it cost.

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20 minutes. No sales pressure. We will tell you exactly what's broken before we talk about anything else.

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