Finance Manager, US Central Region - 22071_1-5879

at GHD in Rosemont, Illinois, United States

Job Description

• Actively participate as a member of the Region Leadership Team to help continue to the Americas high performance.
• Member of Regional leadership team actively contributing to leadership and delivery of business plan objectives and aligning operations with corporate strategy.
• Provide advice on key commercial and financial factors to enable informed business decisions.
• Proactively monitor and identify key business risks, recommend and implement actions to mitigate these to optimize business and financial performance.
• Deliver insights and improvement options through the delivery, review, and analysis of financial reports and KPIs for key business stakeholders.
• Presentation, in a variety of forms and forums, of results and performance against KPIs including insight into impacts on results and improvement opportunities for various stakeholders.
• Recommend required actions with an aim to improve project and Region financial performance; take corrective actions, as required.
• Monitor long and short-term business trends, identify specific business improvement opportunities and lead innovative recommendations for improvements.
• Provide analytical review and strategic input into a variety of business matters to ensure informed decision making, including commercial guidance for major bids, panels and projects including (as required) negotiation, processes, and reporting.
• Responsibility to drive target levels of working capital through driving timely invoicing and effective oversight of debt collection, in conjunction with the Collections Team.
• Support the half year and fiscal year end audits related to revenue recognition.
• Compile annual Region financial budgets, KPI targets and requested reforecasts in partnership with the business.
• Increase commercial awareness with our Leaders, leadership teams, Business Group Leads and Project Managers independently and often in collaboration with GHD's Project Management Office leads.
• Directly support our business development activities via pricing & commercial reviews, generally as part of our Tender review/approval process.
• Other financial assistance to the General Manager, the Americas CFO and/or other stakeholders that may arise from time to time.
• Responsible for supervising the client billing procedures of the Region. Responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department. Assist Business Group Leads and Project Managers to identify cost overruns in order that variations may be requested and invoiced in a timely manner.
• Provide support to the General Manager and the Americas Facilities Leader for property and other leasing arrangements, including review and communication of financial impacts to decision makers.
• Provide leadership and direction for the Finance team - identify and manage performance measures. Lead, train, develop and motivate the Finance team to partner with stakeholders and provide financial support, guidance and advice in a manner easily understood by non-financial professionals.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or equivalent number of years of experience, plus 15+ years of accounting/business operations experience.
• CPA designation and/or MBA. (strongly preferred)

• Experience in the A/E professional services sector.
• Experience with BST (project accounting system).
• Fluency in French or Spanish.