Req ID: 5823
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 & Controls Manager supports the regional directors and leadership team, offering financial management, project controls, insights, and decision-making support to drive strategy and achieve objectives. Reports directly to the CFO.
Roles and Responsibilities
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.
Performs financial scenario planning given market conditions and/or other external factors, considering 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
Spearheads process to develop spending plans (department level), ensuring integration with strategic and operating plans. Understand key drivers to influence continuous improvement across resource allocation, investments, and productivity
Works with project management team to assess project progress and results for accurate accounting and forecasting
Supports preparation of the Monthly Projections - Operations Management Reports, a monthly project-by-project status report forecasting anticipated cost-to-complete
Monitors progress billings, aged A/R, and initiate collection follow-up on slow pay accounts with Project Managers
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
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
Ensures cost code accuracy to facilitate quality analysis/reporting as well as follow 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.
Analyzes Bid specifications and assists Estimators in developing work break-down structures, staffing plans for proposed projects, and initial project planning
Participates in job transition, start-up, and project implementation by managing the development of the budget, project schedule, schedule of values, Earned Value Management, procurement plans, and submittal schedules
Maintains baseline and updated project budgets & schedules, as well as historical timeline of the project(s). This includes JMP processes, daily logs, etc.
Collaborates with project team, support staff and leadership in managing the processes for retentions, change orders, budgets, project schedules, procurement, financial reporting, billing, cash management, invoice approvals, and payroll
Provides input with the pricing/negotiation of client generated changes and pending change orders that may result from field conditions that impact cost, schedule, sequence of work, etc.
Supports Project Managers by performing cash flow analysis including managing billings and communicating with client regarding payments
Supports Operations to identify and mitigate risk before it creates a negative impact to safety, schedule, quality, or production. Monitor and report weekly financial progress and bi-weekly on challenged projects to ensure appropriate Reviews/Audits and recovery plans
Manages the SGA Hourly Rate update process to ensure appropriate cost recovery and GAAP accuracy
Ensures internal controls and reporting of subsistence, truck/gas rent, T&E, contingencies, retention, T&M and govt jobs, etc.
Partners with Operations Manager on Project Engage & Review Audit process to understand performance progress and areas to improve
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or construction mgmt from four-year college or university; at least 8 years' experience with 5 years at a project-driven business including cost accounting. 3 years of direct scheduling and cost engineering experience
Proficiency in Microsoft suite of programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Working knowledge of accepted accounting principles ("GAAP")
Possesses understanding of job cost and construction accounting principles and processes
ERP experience is required, Vista System is preferred but not required
MBA, and/or other advanced certification (CCFIP, CMA, CPA) a plus.
15 - 25% of travel required
The following competencies are needed to successfully perform this job:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret Accounting Technical pronouncements, business-related periodicals, journals, and government regulations
Knowledgeable in generally accepted accounting principles, specifically as pertains to construction contractors
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions... For full info follow application link.
EOE Disability/Veterans
