Finance Manager, North America
Job Location:
Highlands Ranch, CO - USA
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Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
The Finance Manager North America is accountable for financial performance control and cash outcomes across a defined portfolio of clients and projects within North America. This role ensures that client growth is delivered profitably as sold and with strong billing and working-capital discipline. Acting as the primary finance partner to Account Executives CST Leads and Delivery teams this role leads Project Controllers Accountants and Billers to embed financial discipline into delivery provides insight and challenge to support strategic decision-making profitable growth and sustainable business performance.
Role accountabilities:
- Own financial performance across the assigned client portfolio including revenue margin backlog cash (DRO) and cost outcomes.
- Ensure projects are delivered in line with As Sold commercial assumptions escalating risks and deviations early.
- Monitor and explain portfolio-level variances versus plan and forecast.
- Partner with Account Executives and CST Leads to support profitable client growth and portfolio expansion.
- Provide financial insight into client-level growth opportunities service mix decisions and pricing strategy.
- Support bids renewals and extensions by ensuring financial viability margin protection and clear commercial terms.
- Partner with Account Executives and CST Leads to support profitable client growth and portfolio expansion.
- Provide financial insight into client-level growth opportunities service mix decisions and pricing strategy.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes reporting and portfolio performance through simplification standardisation and adoption of best practices
- Support bids renewals and extensions by ensuring financial viability margin protection and clear commercial terms.
- Lead and develop Project Controllers Accountants and Billers supporting the client portfolio.
- Set clear expectations for forecast quality billing timeliness and project financial hygiene.
- Ensure consistent ways of working and adherence to Finance standards across the team.
- Act as the escalation point for client-level financial risks disputes and delivery issues.
- Partner with Commercial Operations and Sector Finance on contractual risk recovery actions and project interventions.
- Ensure compliance with Finance policies controls and accounting requirements (with IFRS ownership retained by Accounting).
Qualifications & Experience:
- Extensive leadership experience in finance within the architecture engineering construction or related capital-intensive industries in North America with clear accountability for financial performance and analysis at portfolio or business-unit level including partnering with senior business leaders to influence commercial and operational outcomes.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen including understanding of pricing cost of sales client NOI and margin and using these to support client portfolio growth and expansion.
- Significant experience in managing client portfolio financial performance reporting and analysis including the day-to-day financial governance of client projects.
- Demonstrated experience providing oversight of Major projects performance Billing discipline WIP management and DRO escalation for assigned clients.
- Strong understanding of financial control frameworks internal controls and compliance ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in line with accounting standards and company policies.
- Ability to clearly communicate the outputs of financial modelling and analysis to senior stakeholders to inform Industry strategy and financial planning.
- Proven ability to lead and develop finance teams setting clear expectations building succession and fostering a high-performance client-focused culture.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively with the senior leadership team to achieve business outcomes.
- Leadership style that empowers Arcadians promotes accountability and continuous improvement and supports a healthyinclusiveand high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious driving success and igniting passion.
- Degree level education in finance accounting economics business or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional qualification(s) such as CPA CA ACCA or an advanced degree (e.g. MBA or masters in finance) preferred or equivalent senior-level experience in complex global organizations.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. 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 employer. 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 15 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $92160 - $153600. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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Manager
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more
