Prove You're Best in Class Contractor: Inside CFMA's Financial Benchmarker — Arleen Barningham & Rhett Ennis

<p>Every contractor says they&#39;re best in class — but until you put your numbers on paper, you haven&#39;t proven it. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi sits down with Arleen Barningham, Product &amp; Data Analytics Manager at CFMA, and Rhett Ennis, CPA, Shareholder at CBIZ CPAs and Pacific Northwest Construction Practice Group Leader, to break down CFMA&#39;s Financial Benchmarker — the tool that lets construction companies see how they really stack up against their peers.</p><p>We get into what the benchmarker is and the question it was built to answer 30 years ago, why contractors are so often surprised the first time they see their &quot;report card,&quot; and how to choose a fair peer group. Rhett shares the metrics he finds most diagnostic (working capital, equity, AR turnover, and the underrated gross profit per FTE), which widely watched ratios get misread most often, and why the real breakthrough happens when owners see their results visually instead of in raw numbers. Arleen walks through the data-collection grind — why a survey can take a CPA four to five hours — and the modernization push to pull data straight from ERP systems via API, plus how CFMA protects the confidentiality of sensitive financials.</p><p>Whether you&#39;re a CFO, controller, or contractor who&#39;s never benchmarked before, this one is a challenge to stop guessing and start proving it.</p><p>📩 Never miss an episode — join 500+ construction finance and ops leaders getting practical insights in their inbox: <a href="https://beiinghuman.com/newsletter-signup/">https://beiinghuman.com/newsletter-signup/</a></p><p>#Construction #ConstructionFinance #CFMA #Benchmarking #JobCosting #WorkingCapital #CFO #Contractors #ConstructionAccounting #ConstructionTech #FinanceAtTheJobsite #ConstructionManagement</p>