Director of Finance (Local Solutions)

 

 

Job ID:  512660

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.

 

The Director of Finance Business Partnering is the go-to finance leader for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions within the Local Solutions business unit, partnering directly with the two Regional Presidents and their support teams.  The role has complete ownership for cost reporting, cost control, financial performance metrics, and FP&A requirements for the region.  This role will act as an advisor and business partner for the regional leadership team by interpreting financial results relative to business strategy and making recommendations to improve EBITDA performance. This position reports directly to the Local Solutions Finance Director and typically has 2/3 direct reports, with a total team of 6 to 8. Assessing, recruiting, coaching, and developing talent is critical to success in this role.  This is a critical finance leadership role in a growing business undergoing significant change and investment. It provides the potential for career development in a large global organization.

 

Job Location

 

This is a hybrid position located in Charleston, SC

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Operational Business Partnering

• Partner with Regional Presidents directly, and Area General Managers indirectly to provide financial expertise and operational leadership to drive the strategic direction for the manufacturing sites
• Provide operations management with strategic tools and interpreted reports to help drive business results.
• Educate and influence business partners of cost objectives and be a leader in solutioning problems.
• Manage operational performance on improvement goals and key performance indicators.
• Streamline processes for efficiency and identify cost savings opportunities.
• Partner with operations leadership to support long-term capital allocation strategy and strategic financial decision making

 

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Prepare and manage the annual budgeting process for the regions.
• Coordinate and own the weekly forecasting process.
• Analyze and interpret plant operation results, evaluating variances, and assessing the effect on plant operations.
• Monitor financial performance to identify and drive cost reductions and cost control initiatives.
• Research pricing, competitors’ trends and factors affecting performance
• Provide business modelling and risk assessments
• Develop and prepare annual, quarterly, monthly, and ad-hoc financial and metric reporting

 

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a team of Business Support Managers, and Financials Analysts.
• Delegate finance activities to team members, as appropriate
• Understand team deliverables to help prioritize workloads for the team.
• Provide effective leadership to staff, direct reports, and others within the organization to improve their performance and advance their career development
• Train and develop staff to ensure work is progressing as desired in the areas of proper collection, calculation, and reporting of manufacturing costs, and reporting of cost, production, inventory, and other financial information to aid in career progression.

 

Other

• Support accounting and control initiatives for the region, including helping to coordinate planned cycle counts, full physical inventories, and physical asset verifications.

• Support ERP integration preparations in alignment with overall Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) systems strategy involving significant investment in a new ERP system