Finance Business Partner
Position Summary
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) is the strategic finance lead for a specific pillar, responsible for pillar-level planning, forecasting, performance management, and decision support.
Responsibilities
Serves as the dedicated financial lead for their pillar, responsible for delivering a pillar-ready financial structure that enables leaders to plan, monitor, and forecast performance effectively.
Owns the full AOP and forecasting process for the pillar—spanning revenue, gross margin, G&A, operating profit, TAM capture, Op Profit / FTE, and headcount—in partnership with the Director, Finance and Internal Controls.
Defines and maintains the pillar performance dashboard—covering revenue, margin, TAM capture, utilization, adoption, and profit allocation—used in monthly and quarterly reviews with Leadership and the EC.
Partners with Internal Controls and FP&A to ensure pillar results roll cleanly into enterprise reporting, including management reports, EC/board packages, and AOP vs. strategic model views.
Provides structured decision support across product line economics and pricing, make/buy and insource/outsource decisions, CapEx investments and lifecycle economics, and capacity expansion and scaling plans.
Partners with Solutions Integration and regional finance to connect pillar plans to project margin plans and regional AOPs.
Oversees the implementation of pillar-appropriate costing methodologies—traditional, ABC, manufacturing, EVA, and others—ensuring Accounting Managers and Specialists execute them correctly in CMiC/Anaplan.
Co-owns the design and continuous improvement of profit allocation approaches for the pillar, working closely with Internal Controls, Corporate Finance, and regional partners.
Ensures financial controls and policies are understood and enforced across the pillar, with regular feedback from audits, variance analyses, and exception reviews.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
8–10+ years progressive experience in finance/accounting, including direct business partnering with operations or P&L ownership.
Demonstrated ability to lead a small finance team (accountants/analysts) and manage through others.
Strong Financial modeling and scenario analysis skills required.
Cost and margin analysis (including standard and activity-based costing).
Presenting insights and recommendations to senior leaders.
Proficiency with ERP and FP&A platforms (CMiC, Anaplan or equivalent) and data tools (Excel, Power BI, or similar).
Experience in construction, EPC, industrial services, or manufacturing preferred.
Prior involvement in centralized/shared services or hub models and profit allocation frameworks preferred.
Experience working with prefabrication/manufacturing accounting or complex service portfolios preferred.
Benefits
M McCarthy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
NOTICE TO EXTERNAL SEARCH FIRMS: McCarthy’s Talent Acquisition Team is the only authorized representative permitted to engage with external search firms, staffing agencies, or other third-party recruiting partners. McCarthy maintains an Approved Agency List for recruiting partners, which is reviewed and updated annually. McCarthy will only consider submissions from agencies with a signed fee agreement in place for the current year. McCarthy does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate submissions, or referrals from agencies that do not meet these requirements. If a candidate is submitted without an active agreement, McCarthy will have no obligation to pay any fees and reserves the right to contact, engage, interview, or hire such candidate(s) without any financial or other responsibility to the submitting agency. Unsolicited resumes, including those sent directly to hiring managers or other employees, will be considered the property of McCarthy. For California locations only, the salary range for this position is: $117,000 – $161,000 depending on location. This does not include a possible bonus and other benefits which can impact total compensation. Compensation offered may vary based on work location, experience, qualifications, specialty, training, and market and business considerations, among other factors.