BU Controller Places

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Role description:

Purpose Lead an engaged and motivated US Pharma and Technical Services Operations (TSO) Business Unit (BU) to partner with and support leadership in understanding their business through effective challenge and by providing insightful and accurate management information that will help improve business performance as well as accuracy of reporting. Provide effective financial management & control for the business unit.

The BU Controller reports directly to the BA Controller.

Role accountabilities:

• Act as a business partner to support the BU Director and BA Controller for decision making.
• Be a forward looking proactive Finance partner providing insightful advice and challenge to the business in all areas of performance
• Lead the development and completion of the financial plans and forecasts.
• Track and report the financial performance of the BU ensuring integrity is maintained in all governance and compliance areas.
• Provide insightful analysis on business performance and trends with a forward-looking lens and driving action as required across the business.
• Coordinate and assess the quality of capex / investment proposals from the business in country.
• Drive Working Capital performance to exceed targets be an active participant and contributor in the sale and bid processes assisting the leadership to drive profitable growth.
• Be a champion for change and Lead the Finance function.
• Report financial KPIs project and P&L performance management reporting and analysis (profitability net working capital and cashflow) accurately and transparently enabling effective decision making for Project Managers and Functional Management.
• Coordinate the BU budget develop outlook & forecast capabilities and develop mitigation plan to support target achievements.
• Lead and develop the BU finance team (where appropriate) to deliver value adding services.
• Ensure a high level of collaboration and coordination is maintained with the other BU Controllers and the Accounting pillar to ensure consistency in service delivery and compliance including meeting all the financial statutory obligations Interact with global finance team.
• Contribute to the global Finance strategy with active involvement in the advancement of standardized centralized and automated process across the entire function.
• Roll out the processes and methods designed centrally in the Business Area (BA).
• Ensure standardization within the Global Business Area (GBA) and with other GBAs avoiding customization of systems and processes.
• Ensure maximum use of and alignment to the Global Shared Service Centre (GSSC) Finance teams.
• Ensure a high level of collaboration is maintained with the wider GBA Finance team including other BU Controllers across all GBAs Centers of Excellence FP&A and Group Control.

Qualifications & Experience:

• The candidate should have a relevant bachelors or masters degree and preferably 10 years of experience in finance.
• Further the candidate should have a track record of being a business partner and understanding client needs and financially controlling complex projects for this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:
• Managing change: Supporting change in programs or teams and driving standardization and automation.
• Management: Showing skills to help manage a BU supporting strategy and successfully driving accountability through KPIs and behavior.
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $113933 - $163304. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.