Finance Director - Remote

 

 

Job ID:  494302

Exempt

 

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

 

Overview:

 

Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) is a part of CRH, the leading building materials business in the world. We are a leading provider of engineered building product solutions and services across North America. Our products reliably convey, connect, and protect critical water, energy, communications, and transportation infrastructure within the residential, commercial, and public infrastructure segments. The thousands of products we manufacture are all around your communities, often unseen, just below the surface. Reliably providing protection and access to water, communications, energy and transportation infrastructure with a focus on sustainability which is in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

 

Within IPG, our Plastics & Composites business employs +2,000 people and operates c.20 manufacturing facilities with annual revenues of c.$1.3bn with ambitious growth plans encompassing acquisitions and capital investments. Within Plastics & Composites, there are 3 business segments:  Enclosures, PVC Pipe and Trench & Metals.

 

The Role:

 

In this role, the Finance Director will oversee the finance functions for the Enclosure business, including core accounting and controls, strategic business partnership, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, revenue recognition, product costing, working capital management and associated analysis and reporting. The team works closely with IPG’s corporate center finance team as well as our centralized shared services functions covering accounts payable and receivable.

 

The Finance Director will act as an advisor and business partner for the Enclosures leadership team by interpreting financial results relative to business strategy and making recommendations to improve EBITDA performance. They will evaluate and make improvements to accounting processes while ensuring that practices comply with organization accounting and internal control policies and applicable laws and regulations. They will also play a critical role in reviewing and evaluating acquisition and capital investment opportunities while also being responsible for the financial integration of new acquisitions (typically 1 - 2 per year)

 

This is a critical finance leadership role in a growing dynamic business undergoing significant change and investment. It provides the potential for career development in a large global organization.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Direct and monitor all financial activity of the organization
• Develop and implement Enclosures budget plans
• Improve Financial Planning & Analysis capabilities and strategic usage of the analysis to drive EBITDA growth.
• Partner with senior leadership to support long-term capital allocation strategy and strategic financial decision making
• Research pricing, competitors’ trends and factors affecting performance
• Provide business modelling and risk assessments
• Support ERP integration preparations in alignment with overall Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) systems strategy involving significant investment in a new ERP system
• Lead financial integration of the current team and new acquisitions with regards to organization restructuring initiatives and achieve synergies with Oldcastle Infrastructure and CRH
• Identify trends, advise senior leadership, and recommend actions based on sound analysis
• Implement and monitor internal accounting policies
• Internal control evaluation and implementation in a SOX environment
• Internal and external audit management
• Develop and prepare annual, quarterly, monthly, and ad-hoc financial and metric reports
• Streamline processes for efficiency and identify cost savings opportunities
• Manage month-end and quarterly close and consolidation process
• Participate in a range of group and divisional projects as required

 

Qualifications / Requirements:

 

• BS/BA degree in finance or accounting; Advanced Degrees, CMA, CPA a plus
• 10+ Years of relevant financial and management experience
• Manufacturing industry & cost accounting experience
• Experience with data