Senior Finance Director, North America Region

About the role

The Senior Director of Finance, North America Region (NAR) is a senior position responsible for financial strategy and management of the North America Region, including the Western US & Canada, Pacific, Great Plains, Midwest, Southern, Northeast, New York, and Caribbean divisions (and country and state business units within these divisions).

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic thought leader and partner for the EVP of North America, Caribbean and Micronesia, focusing on long-range and annual planning and budgeting, business development, and financial sustainability.
• Collaborate with divisional and business unit leadership teams across these areas in financial planning and strategic decision-making to enhance program quality and impact.
• Manage the financial management of the North America Region, including developing and setting budgets, monitoring expenses, analyzing results, and taking corrective actions.
• Play a key role in important strategic financial and organization-wide initiatives and projects, such as operating model implementation, redesigning resource allocation, full cost budgeting and indirect cost recovery, and building a multi-year financial plan.
• Work effectively across key regions and business units with the Chief Conservation Office, Development, and other areas to integrate strategic conservation and campaign priorities with annual and multi-year financial plans.
• Provide strategic financial planning & analysis support for major conservation projects and programs.
• Implement strategic, integrated, and collaborative approaches to the quarterly forecasting, annual planning & budgeting, and multi-year planning processes for the North America Region and the entire organization.
• Introduce, improve, and implement best practices to ensure consistency and clarity of financial planning, reporting, and analysis across finance teams within regions and business units.
• Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms, including the ability to synthesize key takeaways, succinctly and convincingly communicate analysis & recommendations, and prepare presentations and reports for senior leaders.
• Lead and manage a large team of finance staff across the region and with management layers, encouraging cross-divisional learning and collaboration, building effective teams, developing strong governance models, and ensuring sound financial management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration and 11 years related work experience, including at the senior level, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience overseeing major finance areas such as Accounting, Note Management, Cash Management, Cash/Investment planning, or similar.
• Experience conceiving and implementing major strategic initiatives, not just tactical projects.
• Experience managing the finances of an organization-wide program, including setting financial goals, analyzing results, and taking corrective actions.
• Extensive experience supervising remote professional staff of teams of 25 or more and leading across management layers.
• Knowledge of not-for-profit accounting principles, practices and regulations, or extensive for-profit finance experience in a global, matrixed management structure with experience navigating matrixed leaders and dedicated financial partners for regions/BUs.
• Experience with complex accounting/financial issues, complex financial analysis and financial reporting, long-range planning and forecasts, complex financial systems and analytical tools, and working with senior management and Board of Directors, or equivalent, on finance-related issues.
• Expert knowledge of current and evolving trends in relevant discipline, experience with Workday, extensive management experience including ability to motivate, lead, set objectives, and manage performance of a large multi-disciplinary team, superb communication and presentation skills, and experience recruiting, supervising and developing high performance staff.

Qualifications

• CPA or MBA.
• Experience working with not-for-profit financial and government grants accounting and reporting.
• Financial management of budgets $500M+.

Skills

• Effective leadership through relationship-building, collaboration, change management, and communication.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage remote teams and navigate matrixed leadership structures.

Benefits

This role offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package including health care, retirement savings, and paid time off.

Pay

The starting pay range for a candidate selected for this position is generally within the range of $180,000 - $270,000 or hourly rate for annual base salary. This range only applies to candidates whose country of employment is the USA. Where a successful candidate’s actual pay will fall within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including, for example, the candidate's location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience.

The starting pay range for a candidate selected for this position is generally within the range of 243,000 - 280,000 CAD or hourly rate for annual base salary. This range only applies to candidates whose country of employment is Canada. Where a successful candidate’s actual pay will fall within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including, for example, the candidate’s location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience.

Schedule

This role is remote and can be based anywhere in the continental US or Canadian provinces of Ontario, Alberta, or Northwest Territories.