Sr. Director, Accounting & Finance

Who We Are

We are women-owned and operated, with over 50 years of expertise as a leading environmental solutions provider, focused on infection prevention for complex facilities. As a local and privately held company, we are agile and can maneuver quickly to support the needs of our people and clients. One of our greatest strengths is our Culture of Caring. From our CEO to the front-line staff, Servicon embodies our vision of creating healthy environments for people to thrive. Servicon focuses on three essential elements for establishing a Culture of Caring and Excellence: People, Programs, and Performance. These components represent our strong value alignment, positively impacting patient care, infection prevention, and throughput.

The Role

As our Sr. Director of Accounting and Finance, you will have the opportunity to build the framework, the team, and deliver tangible value to our organization. Our vision for this role revolves around a forward-looking lens which helps us understand the data drivers in our business which in turn helps us see around corners and identify risks and opportunities to help achieve our optimal profitability and scale with our growth.  Reporting to the CFO, you will collaborate with cross-functional business leaders to provide analysis driven insights to be used in our decision-making and strategic planning.  This role currently has three direct reports.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for accounting and finance.  You possess experience within big and small operational organizations.  You have exposure working within a legacy organization(s) while transforming it into future state.  You thrive on building and mentoring teams, analytical dashboards, processes and controls, training and development with a continuous improvement mindset.  You will be highly-analytical, an accomplished accountant and proactive with company finances commercially aware to provide advice on best path(s) of growth for our business.  You have experience operating in an organization that is in high-growth mode.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own and direct the financial strategic planning of the company by evaluating its performance and potential risks
• Provide financial planning and analysis support to the accounting teams related to production and expense reporting framework and analytics.
• Recognize patterns in company spending, revenue, and recommend solutions to any problem areas.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Work closely with accounting to identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• Manage the optimization of consolidation and reporting, budgeting/forecasting, and dashboard/analytics software/technology systems to ensure the use of value-added financial tools; including selection of any new software/systems as needed.
• Collaborate with the finance and accounting teams in the development of KPIs, benchmarks, or key metrics for measuring operational performance.
• Lead, manage, motivate, and inspire operational finance and the accounting teams to effectively embrace, drive objectives, visions, and goals.

What It Takes to be Successful

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or relevant work. MBA preferred but not required
• 10+ years’ professional finance and accounting management experience, including progressive experience in financial planning & analysis including modeling and analytics, and designing, creating, and analyzing financial reports with at least 5+ years in a managerial role
• In-depth knowledge of accounting software, corporate principles, and financial analysis
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• An analytical mind with good organizational skills
• Outstanding leadership skills
• Positive can-do attitude – willingness to roll up sleeve’s and do what’s necessary
• Experience with Planful and/or SAP ByDesign a plus.
• Action-oriented; proactive self-starter and team player; anticipates needs

Why you will love it here

• The satisfaction of driving real change in the industry and people’s lives
• A diverse community of people who are driven by a shared purpose
• A business that acts with integrity in all interactions with co-workers, leaders, and customers
• We value others and build success by appreciating differences in thought, opinion, background, skills, and perspectives
• An environment of continuous learning and development
• Flat organizational structures