Senior FP&A Regional Leader, North America | United States

Who are We?

Recognized as “the stand-out brand in the EHS consulting market” by independent research firm Verdantix, dss+ is a global operations management consulting company that has been advising leading industrial companies around the world for over 50 years. We leverage not only 200 years of DuPont experience in operating high-hazard facilities around the world, but also the unique talents of our expert consultants. Our strength is our people – a diverse team of individuals with experience across a broad range of industries, functions and disciplines.

dss+ services fall into three core areas—operational risk management, operational excellence and sustainability—each bolstered by learning, development and culture change solutions and digital technologies. Teams around the globe work with clients in metals and mining, chemicals, oil and gas, power and utilities, agriculture, food and beverage, industrial and manufacturing, and private equity.

Companies come to us because they want to bring about lasting change that makes them safer, more dynamic and more productive places to work. They trust us because we have real life experience of the situations they face, we help them implement and operationalize their solutions and we are passionate about what we do. We zero in on what matters: protecting and improving lives, operations and assets.

What will we offer?

The Senior FP&A Regional Leader is a business advocate, providing proactive trusted advice, influencing decisions with a forward-looking perspective, while ensuring timely and accurate delivery of all management reports.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a highly competent team and apply your FP&A and business partnership capabilities to lead the regional Budgeting & Forecasting and business operational processes. 

Who are we looking for?

A member of the strategic planning process who can lead financial evaluation of strategic plans as well as financial assessments of prospective business opportunities/initiatives.

This candidate will work for the USC region in close collaboration with the business leaders covering the North American geographic region.

What will you do?

• Lead the budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes for the USC region. Establish appropriate inputs/outputs, timetables, and necessary levels of analysis to clearly ‘tell the story’, to enable informed decisions to be made by the business.

• You will provide FP&A support to the senior management team to help drive deeper understanding of sales pipeline, revenues, contract sold pricing, project and customer profitability.

• Actively review the projects with project controllers in F&O and CRM, making sure that all the expenses/costs are charged to the project and Backlog/Milestones maintenance is 100% accurate all the time.

• Make a difference in USC Region/Market performance: Push for FSE chargeability and utilization, A/R follow up on a weekly basis with business, track performance of the projects in Power BI; challenge/analyze with the PMs when the project has deviations or you spot any concerns.

• Act as a Finance Business Partner to other team members within Corporate Controlling. Providing Data & Analytics whenever profound and in-depth knowledge about financial planning is required.

• Detailed review and analysis of financial clauses of customer contracts in collaboration with the legal entity financial controllers and Global Tax Manager in the assessment of tax matters (VAT, WHT, PE risk and etc).

• Plan, execute and/or lead selected special projects that require cross-functional engagement and external stakeholders, controlling project activities to fulfil objectives and satisfy project requirements.

• M&A Activities: Hands-on execution of financial and operational matters from due diligence to post-acquisition integration.

• Work regularly with the Business Leaders and country managers on financial matters and ad-hoc requests, proposals/tenders, etc. Support the management in implementing and coordinating economic analysis, identifying KPI and profit drivers.

Requirements

Who are you?

To be successful in this position, you would bring the following qualifications: 

Education:

-Accredited University Finance Degree

-Qualified Accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent) MUST HAVE

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years solid Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis on Corporate/Group Controlling level and project costing, including 5 years in similar role.