Regional Finance Director

Req ID: 5714
Travel: Up to 25%
Number of Openings: 1 

 

Achieve more in your career with the nation’s leading specialty concrete contractor. At Baker Construction, you’ll be part of a team that prioritizes people, invests in their development, and offers unparalleled opportunities for professional growth. In this role, you’ll be integral to building the future of our country and our company. You’ll collaborate across diverse teams, have a hand in significant projects, and dive headfirst into complex challenges with the best in the industry. If you are driven to do more and have the grit to follow through, you’ll have everything you need to define your career on your terms. 

 

Make a meaningful impact with a team that values ambition and rewards initiative. Apply today and be more with Baker.

Summary

Finance Leader for the Regional President and leadership team, providing financial management, insights, and decision support to deliver the
strategy and objectives. Reports to the CFO.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Delivers financial analysis with actionable insights across the markets, customers, segments, resource planning, and cost structure. Leverage CRM analysis to support goal setting.
• Maintains in-depth financial understanding of project results, customer/segment performance trends, and spending to business partner with Operations Leadership on commercial initiatives. 
• Leads investment analysis to ensure strategic fit, ROI, and optimal capital allocation (as needed)
• Ensures financial understanding by Operations Leadership e.g. P&L structure, financial flows, polices, etc.
• Supports Operations Leadership on competitive analysis. This includes identifying insights to influence strategy, operations, and defense plans.
• Leads management financial reporting vs budget and prior periods with actionable insights at a department level. This includes ensuring clarity of performance trends and recommendations to improve results. 
• Ensures cost code accuracy to facilitate quality analysis/reporting as well as follows GAAP Cogs vs SGA standards
• Supports month-end closing cycle: ensuring tie-out to Project Mgr. projections, understanding drivers on jobs over 100% to reset, evaluating accrued cost, etc.
• Maintains deep understanding of Vista and Power BI systems as Region superuser to support the functions as well as optimize analysis and reporting. Recommend improvements as needed
• Provides financial insights on pricing, project selections, and cash curves (as needed)
• Ensures financial targets and in-process project performance measures are effective and enabling optimal results
• Participates in the Project Transition process and meetings to ensure a successful transition from Estimating to Operations
• Manages the SGA Hourly Rate update process to ensure appropriate cost recovery and GAAP accuracy
• Ensures appropriate internal controls and reporting of subsistence, truck/gas rent, T&E, contingencies, retention, T&M and govt jobs, etc. Engage as needed to close any gaps to be consistent to policy.
• Supports as needed Project Managers to track, monitor and adjust critical project activities e.g. retentions, change orders, schedule adjustments, delay orders. 
• Reviews estimate revisions (internal & external) to ensure job measures and financials are fully updated
• Supports Operations to identify and mitigate risk before it creates a negative impact to safety, schedule, quality, or production. Monitor and report bi-weekly on challenged projects to ensure appropriate Reviews/Audits and recovery plans.
• Monitors project cash flow & over/under billings to ensure they are within the standard company guidelines; reports any discrepancies to leadership
• Partners with Operations Manager on Project Engage & Review Audit process to understand performance progress and areas to improve. Support Operations Manager on the Post Project Lesson Learned process to identify and document areas to improve.
• Establishes and oversees implementation of accounting controls and procedures on a regional basis. Act as liaison between corporate accounting and operating regions.
• Helps implement corporate change initiatives
• Develops procedures to ensure efficient administration of projects
• Conducts administrative functions of the department in accordance with Baker policies and applicable laws and regulations
• Approves field checks and admin expense invoices
• Monitors Project Manager’s performance of productivity
• Coaches and mentors co-workers
• Evaluates role performance
• Rewards and recognises professional development to encourage continuous learning
• Develops & trains on regional