Accounting & Financial Business Manager

Job Title: Accounting & Financial Business Manager

Department:  Building Science

Job Summary:

Lerch Bates is hiring a Business Manager to assist our Building Science group. The Business Manager ensures that the field operations administrative teams are aligned in process and working toward the successful attainment of organizational and area Performance Metrics and Objectives. We are looking for candidates with previous experience with financial reporting and analytics. Apply to become an employee owner today!

Company Insight:

Lerch Bates is the global multidisciplinary technical consultancy, saving time and money for those designing, modernizing, investigating, or managing buildings. From risk to ROI, schedule to sustainability, Lerch Bates’ suite of services helps you plan the future of your building at every phase of the building lifecycle. As your partner in finding the best technical outcomes for your project, we ensure functionality, safety, and value work together.

We simplify the path to the best technical expertise for the built environment anywhere in the world. Lerch Bates offers integrated specialties, including vertical transportation, logistics, enclosures & structures, forensics, and multidisciplinary building lifecycle services that optimize performance from design, construction, and management to forensic investigation, repair, and modernization.

What You’ll Do:

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed in this position. They are not intended to prescribe or restrict the assignments that management may make.

• Assist the Area Vice President(s) in setting the budget and strategic priorities to meet the organizational and area short-term and long-term financial objectives.
• Oversee the financial reporting and provide detailed financial analysis to the Area VP(s).
• Align with peer Business Managers and other administrative departments across the organization to standardize processes in the operations administrative functions.
• Oversee invoicing to clients based on direction received from management.
• Oversee and assist in entering work projects in the accounting system.
• Implement agreed upon processes and direct the operations administrative team to achieve organization and area objectives.
• Track performance metrics and success toward area objectives and, based upon analysis, make adjustments to processes and teams.
• Provide reports to senior management regarding the team’s performance.
• Complete other project work as assigned by the Area Vice President(s).