Regional Finance Director

Summary

Finance Leader for the Regional President and leadership team, providing financial management, insights, and decision support to deliver the
strategy and objectives. Reports to the CFO.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Delivers financial analysis with actionable insights across the markets, customers, segments, resource planning, and cost structure. Leverage CRM analysis to support goal setting.
• Maintains in-depth financial understanding of project results, customer/segment performance trends, and spending to business partner with Operations Leadership on commercial initiatives. 
• Leads investment analysis to ensure strategic fit, ROI, and optimal capital allocation (as needed)
• Ensures financial understanding by Operations Leadership e.g. P&L structure, financial flows, polices, etc.
• Supports Operations Leadership on competitive analysis. This includes identifying insights to influence strategy, operations, and defense plans.
• Leads management financial reporting vs budget and prior periods with actionable insights at a department level. This includes ensuring clarity of performance trends and recommendations to improve results. 
• Ensures cost code accuracy to facilitate quality analysis/reporting as well as follows GAAP Cogs vs SGA standards
• Supports month-end closing cycle: ensuring tie-out to Project Mgr. projections, understanding drivers on jobs over 100% to reset, evaluating accrued cost, etc.
• Maintains deep understanding of Vista and Power BI systems as Region superuser to support the functions as well as optimize analysis and reporting. Recommend improvements as needed
• Provides financial insights on pricing, project selections, and cash curves (as needed)
• Ensures financial targets and in-process project performance measures are effective and enabling optimal results
• Participates in the Project Transition process and meetings to ensure a successful transition from Estimating to Operations
• Manages the SGA Hourly Rate update process to ensure appropriate cost recovery and GAAP accuracy
• Ensures appropriate internal controls and reporting of subsistence, truck/gas rent, T&E, contingencies, retention, T&M and govt jobs, etc. Engage as needed to close any gaps to be consistent to policy.
• Supports as needed Project Managers to track, monitor and adjust critical project activities e.g. retentions, change orders, schedule adjustments, delay orders. 
• Reviews estimate revisions (internal & external) to ensure job measures and financials are fully updated
• Supports Operations to identify and mitigate risk before it creates a negative impact to safety, schedule, quality, or production. Monitor and report bi-weekly on challenged projects to ensure appropriate Reviews/Audits and recovery plans.
• Monitors project cash flow & over/under billings to ensure they are within the standard company guidelines; reports any discrepancies to leadership
• Partners with Operations Manager on Project Engage & Review Audit process to understand performance progress and areas to improve. Support Operations Manager on the Post Project Lesson Learned process to identify and document areas to improve.
• Establishes and oversees implementation of accounting controls and procedures on a regional basis. Act as liaison between corporate accounting and operating regions.
• Helps implement corporate change initiatives
• Develops procedures to ensure efficient administration of projects
• Conducts administrative functions of the department in accordance with Baker policies and applicable laws and regulations
• Approves field checks and admin expense invoices
• Monitors Project Manager’s performance of productivity
• Coaches and mentors co-workers
• Evaluates role performance
• Rewards and recognises professional development to encourage continuous learning
• Develops & trains on regional best practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or construction mgmt from four-year college or university; at least 10 years’ experience with 5 years at a project-driven business including cost accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience
• ERP experience is required
• Proficiency in Microsoft suite of programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc 
• Working knowledge of the Vista System is a plus but not required 
• Working knowledge of accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”)
• Understands job cost and construction accounting principles and processes
• CPA, MBA, and/or other advanced certification (CCFIP) a plus
• Experience with creating and distributing Power BI reports utilizing multiple data sources is a plus
• Experience with Scheduling software such as Primavera P6, MS Project, etc. a plus
• Must possess oral and written communication skills commensurate with the task of presenting frequently complex financial concepts and data in a clear and concise manner to senior management groups of managers, clients, customers, and co-workers.
• Must possess strong customer service skills
• Occasional travel to job sites required

The following competencies are needed to successfully perform this job:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret Accounting Technical pronouncements, business-related periodicals, journals, and government regulations
• Knowledgeable in generally accepted accounting principles, specifically as pertains to construction contractors 
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures 
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Ability to communicate in both written and oral form complex financial concepts and data
• Ability to prescribe, develop, and train on procedures for both existing and new processes
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups
• Ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of fellow co-workers
• Ability to evaluate and prioritize tasks. Understands the time sensitive environment we operate
• Ability to define problems, collect information, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions 
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists 
• Understands correlation between individual job success to regional success and overall organizational success
• Understands and possess a working knowledge of contracts, specifications, drawings, and scope of work
• Understands of the inter-relationship between operations, cost control, accounts payables, and accounts receivables