Regional Finance Manager

In this role, the Regional Finance Manager will report directly to the VP of Finance, East. This is a cross-functional position that will play a key role in managing and supporting all finance processes and initiatives in the East Region. This individual will work closely and collaborate with back office functional leads, operations teams and senior leadership to support any and all financial needs driven internally or externally.

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Provide management oversight as a liaison of the corporate office with operations to ensure the accuracy and integrity of business office operations including accounts payable and receivable functions, billing, payroll and financial reporting for the region.
• Assist with monthly financial closing including preparation of revenue and expense accruals to be submitted to accounting for booking.
• Lead and oversee the monthly financial review process with operations for the region to meet all critical deadlines and deliverables. Work closely and collaborate with accounting and billing as part of the close process.
• Prepare and distribute monthly financial reporting packages.
• Participate in the monthly financial review meetings with operations to analyze, research and resolve reconciling items that arise during the financial review process including documenting explanations for low job performance results where needed. Compile explanations for various Books of business to present to corporate finance as part of the overall consolidated financial package distributed to senior leadership.
• Assist with creating, implementing and managing annual budgets for the region COEs. Work closely with the region senior leadership and operations to compile data as necessary.
• Provide Sage (Intacct) training to authorized users on running reports, drilling into transactions, AR invoice review, billing processes and other functionality as needed. In addition to, providing JTS training to all new users in the region.
• Assist region COEs with new account onboarding procedures to ensure accuracy of data from onset of account start up. In addition, assist with lost account offboarding procedures which would include, but not limited to, identifying assets to be transferred, coordination of final invoices and AR collections, etc.
• Work closely with the Finance and IT leadership to evaluate Finance processes. Be an active team member in driving continued system optimization to support efficient business processes across back-office functions.
• Support ad-hoc financial and analytical projects as required.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Problem Solving – Synthesizes complex or diverse information. Maintain expertise in financial accounting and related software tools. Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully Designs workflows and procedures.
• Customer Service – Strong customer orientation, manage difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance. Listens carefully to customer needs.  Able to take customer perspective to drive performance improvement.  Effectively communicates organizational performance.
• Communication – Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Demonstrates group presentation skills; Participates in meetings. Writes clearly and informatively; Able to read and interpret written information. Shares expertise with others.
• Leadership and Teamwork – Able to effectively lead in a multi-site organization without having direct line management responsibility. Show leadership through power of ideas and persuasion.  Places team results above personal interests.  Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Business Acumen – Understands the client’s business and how the client makes money. Understands business implications of decisions; Displays orientation to profitability; Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; Aligns work with strategic goals.  Analyzes market and competition; Identifies external threats and opportunities; Adapts