Regional Finance and Controls Manager

The Regional Financial & Controls Manager supports the regional directors and leadership team, offering financial management, project controls, insights, and decision-making support to drive strategy and achieve objectives. Reports directly to the CFO.

• Leads development of the annual financial plan including targets and key drivers, partnering with Region Executive team to ensure linked to strategic and operating plans.
• Performs financial scenario planning given market conditions and/or other external factors, considering R&O and necessary action plans to achieve goals
• Manages quarterly forecast updates to deliver insights on changes, R&O, and gap closing plans if applicable
• Spearheads process to develop spending plans (department level), ensuring integration with strategic and operating plans. Understand key drivers to influence continuous improvement across resource allocation, investments, and productivity
• Works with project management team to assess project progress and results for accurate accounting and forecasting
• Supports preparation of the Monthly Projections - Operations Management Reports, a monthly project-by-project status report forecasting anticipated cost-to-complete
• Monitors progress billings, aged A/R, and initiate collection follow-up on slow pay accounts with Project Managers
• 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
• 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
• Ensures cost code accuracy to facilitate quality analysis/reporting as well as follow 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.
• Analyzes Bid specifications and assists Estimators in developing work break-down structures, staffing plans for proposed projects, and initial project planning
• Participates in job transition, start-up, and project implementation by managing the development of the budget, project schedule, schedule of values, Earned Value Management, procurement plans, and submittal schedules
• Maintains baseline and updated project budgets & schedules, as well as historical timeline of the project(s). This includes JMP processes, daily logs, etc.
• Collaborates with project team, support staff and leadership in managing the processes for retentions, change orders, budgets, project schedules, procurement, financial reporting, billing, cash management, invoice approvals, and payroll
• Provides input with the pricing/negotiation of client generated changes and pending change orders that may result from field conditions that impact cost, schedule, sequence of work, etc.
• Supports Project Managers by performing cash flow analysis including managing billings and communicating with client regarding payments
• Supports Operations to identify and mitigate risk before it creates a negative impact to safety, schedule, quality, or production. Monitor and report weekly financial progress and bi-weekly on challenged projects to ensure appropriate Reviews/Audits and recovery plans
• Manages the SGA Hourly Rate update process to ensure appropriate cost recovery and GAAP accuracy
• Ensures internal controls and reporting of subsistence, truck/gas rent, T&E, contingencies, retention, T&M and govt jobs, etc.
• Partners with Operations Manager on Project Engage & Review Audit process to understand performance progress and areas to improve

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or construction mgmt from four-year college or university; at least 8 years' experience with 5 years at a project-driven business including cost accounting. 3 years of direct scheduling and cost engineering experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft suite of programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Working knowledge of accepted accounting principles ("GAAP")
• Possesses understanding of job cost and construction accounting principles and processes
• ERP experience is required, Vista System is preferred but not required
• MBA, and/or other advanced certification (CCFIP, CMA, CPA) a plus.
• 15 - 25% of travel 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 dataAbility 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 and prioritize tasks
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists