Manager, Finance

About the role

This is a highly visible finance position responsible for enhancing the effectiveness of the field finance organization through talent development, best practice deployment, tool adoption, and change management. The role serves as a strategic partner to Area and Corporate finance leadership and their respective teams. The primary focus is to improve capabilities, drive consistency, and accelerate adoption of finance processes and technologies across the enterprise. An individual in this role will be an advocate for the Areas and Corporate, translating field needs into actionable recommendations, while ensuring successful implementation of finance tools, processes, and operating models developed through corporate finance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Reports, analyzes, and interprets highly complex financial and operating data for the assigned area, including cost analysis, market niche reporting, profitability analysis, regional geographic performance assessments, pricing analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, and other ad-hoc analysis.
• Monitors and analyzes highly advanced key financial performance measures.
• Provides assistance in preparing budgets, forecasts, and financial reviews, ensuring the highest quality of deliverables.
• Performs highly advanced financial projects on an ad-hoc basis.
• Assists the corporate accounting function with matters related to the annual audit, contract audits, and income tax matters, as required.
• Reviews consolidated month-end results and provides input for deviations from budget or forecast; recommends future cost reductions or profit improvements and adjustments to forecasts.
• Manages a team of individual contributors supporting unique or one-off transactions with ongoing impact on corporate and field accounting activities.
• Responsible for hiring, setting and monitoring annual performance plans, coaching, and career development; ensures proper tools are in place to support the team and processes.
• Performs complex financial analysis from activities supported by this group as needed.
• Exhibits a strong understanding of the business to determine the best method for achieving objectives.
• Proactively and effectively consults with other finance and accounting personnel to achieve company-wide goals efficiently.
• Drives process improvement and embraces changes to achieve a world-class finance organization; provides leadership during implementation of business-wide programs and products.
• Actively reviews, analyzes, and manages key controls within the domain of responsibility to ensure compliance with legal and accounting requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Accounting, Business Administration, or a similar area of study, or High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience.
• 7 years of previous experience (in addition to education requirements).

Preferred Qualifications

• Finance & Accounting background.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Physical Requirements

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and copy machines. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability.
• Stock purchase plan.
• Company matching on a 401(k).
• Paid vacation, holidays, and personal days.

Benefits may vary by site.