Regional Financial Manager

Req ID: 6033
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

The Regional Financial Manager serves as the financial leader for a designated region, partnering closely with the Regional President and leadership team to drive strategic and operational success. This role is responsible for leading financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, as well as ensuring the accuracy and integrity of project accounting and reporting. The position requires a blend of technical accounting skills, project financial oversight, and strong business partnering capabilities to support project delivery, resource allocation, and continuous improvement.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Regional Finance Manager will perform the following duties in a safe, productive, and effective manner:
Financial Planning
•Leads development of the annual financial plan including targets and key drivers, partnering with Region Executive team to ensure linked to strategic and operating plans Includes recommendations that support the company's financial goals and objectives
•Performs financial scenario planning given market conditions and/or other external factors, considers R&O and necessary action plans to achieve goals
•Manages quarterly forecast updates to deliver insights on changes, R&O and gap closing plans if applicable Ensures appropriate forecast accuracy
•Spearheads process to develop spending plans (department level), ensures integration with strategic and operating plans Understands key drivers to influence continuous improvement across resource allocation, investments and productivity
•Works with project management team to assess project progress and results for accounting and forecasting Ensures change orders and contingencies are reported consistent to policy
•Supports preparation of the Monthly Projections - Operations Management Reports, a monthly project-by-project status report forecasting anticipated cost-to-complete

Financial Analysis 
•Delivers financial analysis with actionable insights across the markets, customers, segments, resource planning, and cost structure Leverages 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
•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

Reporting
•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 follow GAAP Cogs vs SGA standards
•Supports month-end closing cycle: ensures tie-out to Project Mgr. projections, understands drivers on jobs over 100% to reset, evaluates accrued cost, etc.

Project Financial Leadership
•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. Engages 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
•Supports Operations to identify and mitigate risk before it creates a negative impact to safety, schedule, quality, or production Monitors and reports bi-weekly on challenged projects to ensure appropriate Reviews/Audits and recovery plans
•Partners with Operations Manager on Project Engage & Review Audit and Post Project Less