Running finance in construction isn’t easy — and we’re here to make it easier. On the Finance at the Jobsite Podcast, host Rishi Srivastava talks with top CFOs, owners, controllers, Ops and IT experts about what’s working, what’s broken, and what’s next. If you care about cash flow, automation, and smarter financial decision-making in construction, this show is for you.
Finance at the Jobsite
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Running finance in construction isn’t easy — and we’re here to make it easier. On the Finance at the Jobsite Podcast, host Rishi Srivastava talks with top CFOs, owners, controllers, Ops and IT experts about what’s working, what’s broken, and what’s next. If you care about cash flow, automation, and smarter financial decision-making in construction, this show is for you.
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July 23, 2026
Prove You're Best in Class Contractor: Inside CFMA's Financial Benchmarker — Arleen Barningham & Rhett Ennis
<p>Every contractor says they're best in class — but until you put your numbers on paper, you haven't proven it. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi sits down with Arleen Barningham, Product & Data Analytics Manager at CFMA, and Rhett Ennis, CPA, Shareholder at CBIZ CPAs and Pacific Northwest Construction Practice Group Leader, to break down CFMA'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 "report card," 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're a CFO, controller, or contractor who'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>
July 13, 2026
Why Project Managers Hate Coding Invoices — and What It Costs You | Tanmaya Kala (TK), Co-Founder & COO, MeltPlan
<p>Tanmaya "TK" Kala spent 13 years at DPR Construction rising to Project Executive on billion-dollar healthcare projects — including OSHPD hospital builds where clients demanded actual-cost documentation down to the square foot of drywall. Now he's Co-Founder & COO of MeltPlan, building AI tools for pre-construction.</p><p>In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, TK breaks down why the finance–operations gap exists on nearly every project: why coding invoices is "a chore" that gets deprioritized, how he blocked Friday afternoons just to get billing done, and why the accounting system — not the PM platform — is still the real source of truth. He shares stories from the field, including a subcontractor emailing certified payroll with exposed Social Security numbers, and explains why billing becomes a last-minute scramble when everyone waits until the deadline to maximize cash flow.</p><p>We also cover: lump sum vs. cost plus contracts and what each means for financial workload, why only 2% of projects hit cost, time, and benefits, material tracking in a post-COVID supply chain, and TK's vision for AI making project managers reviewers instead of doers — plus his 95% accuracy threshold for when AI automation actually pays off.</p><p>Chapters:<br>00:41 – TK's journey: from structural engineering to Project Executive at DPR<br>11:05 – The finance vs. operations gap<br>21:32 – Real jobsite finance stories: Friday invoice coding, billing scrambles, and a payroll PII scare<br>30:10 – Cost tracking: lump sum vs. cost plus, and why material tracking is art and science<br>40:17 – Technology in construction and the founding of MeltPlan<br>47:35 – The future of construction finance: AI as first-pass coder, PM as reviewer</p>
July 6, 2026
AI Agents in Construction Finance: What Actually Works (and Where They Break)
<p>Everyone says AI agents are about to run your back office unattended. The research — and a day in the life of a construction finance software founder — says something more useful and a lot more specific.</p><p>In this solo episode of Finance at the Jobsite, host Rishi Srivastava (founder of Beiing Human) gives the honest version of where AI agents genuinely help in construction accounting and where they fall on their face. No slideware — these are tools he runs every day, backed by two pieces of research: Meta's GAIA-2 benchmark and CFAgentBench</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22000</a></p><p>, a new paper from his team testing agents on CFO-grade work.</p><p>What you'll learn:</p><p>Why the best AI agent completes only ~42% of everyday tasks start-to-finish — and why "on a clock" is where they fail hardest. The plan-act-observe-feedback loop that makes an agent auditable and trustworthy. Live look at two workflows that work today: creating a Viewpoint Vista job from an award email, and automating a dreaded ERP data migration. Why reliability collapses from ~66% (one try) to ~38% (five times in a row) — and why you should demand the "five in a row" number, not the demo number. How MCP ("USB-C for AI") is dissolving vendor lock-in and turning your finance systems into places agents can act, not just read. Why human-in-the-loop isn't a weakness — it's the architecture that survives an audit.</p><p>Real questions from CFOs, controllers, and ERP partners throughout, plus where this is all headed in the next year.</p><p>Whether you're running the numbers, leading the team, or designing the systems that keep projects moving — this is your place to learn what's working, what's broken, and what's next in construction finance.</p><p>Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Audible, or watch on YouTube — just search Finance at the Jobsite.</p>
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