Region Finance Manager

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 Region Finance Manager leads all regional financial strategy and operations to manage region full P&L financial plan and forecasts, evaluate project performance, drive critical financial activities, and deliver clear, actionable insights through regular analysis and reviews. This includes ensuring forecast accuracy, identifying risks and opportunities, and aligning financial targets with strategic and operational goals.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Region Finance Manager will perform the following duties in a safe, productive, and effective manner:

Financial Planning

• 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. Includes recommendations that support the company’s financial goals and objectives
• Manages quarterly forecast updates to deliver insights into changes, R&O, and gap closing plans. Ensures appropriate forecast accuracy.
• Maintains in-depth financial understanding of project results/forecasts, customer/segment performance trends, and spending to partner with Operations Leadership on any improvement plans

Financial Analysis & Reporting

• Delivers financial analysis with actionable insights across the markets, customers, segments, resource planning, and cost structure. Leverages CRM analysis to support goal setting.
• Ensures cost recognition accuracy to facilitate quality forecasting/analysis/reporting as well as follow GAAP Cogs vs SGA standards
• Leads management financial reporting vs budget and prior periods with actionable insights at a department level. This includes ensuring clarity of performance trends and recommendations to improve results

Project & Admin Financial Leadership

• Provides financial insights on pricing, project selection, and cash curve
• Ensures financial targets and in-process project performance measures are effective and enabling optimal results
• Establishes and oversees implementation of accounting controls and procedures on a regional basis. Acts as liaison between corporate accounting and operating regions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business – finance, accounting, or construction management from four-year college or university; and 8 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• MBA and/or other advanced certification (CCIFP) a plus.
• Experience with creating and distributing Power BI reports utilizing multiple data sources is a plus.
• Experience with Scheduling software such as Primavera P6, MS Project, etc. a plus.

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 (GAAP), specifically as pertains to construction contractors
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts and data in both written and oral form
• Must possess oral and written communication skills commensurate with the task of presenting complex financial concepts and data in a clear and concise manner to senior management groups of managers, clients, customers, and co-workers
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Understanding of Cost Accounting
• Working knowledge of the Viewpoint Vista system
• Ability to attain working proficiency with computers and Microsoft software programs such as Word, Excel, and Access
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups
• Must possess strong customer service skills.
• Ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of fellow co-workers
• Ability to define problems, collect information, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to understand the correlation between individual job success to region success and overall organizational success
• Must possess working knowledge of contracts, specifications, drawings, and scope of work
• Ability to understand the inter-relationship between operations, cost control, accounts payables, and accounts receivables

At Baker Construction, we welcome those who are driven to make things happen. Your tenacity will be rewarded with great pay, excellent benefits, and opportunities to make your mark. This is an opportunity to own your future while working alongside co-workers who are united in our purpose to build better structures and better lives. Go further with an industry leader that puts people first, honors its word, and has the grit to achieve greatness.

Baker is an EOE Disability/Veterans Employer.

• Applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation for any or part of the application process may make their requests known by emailing hrtech@sharedservices.cc or calling 1-513-539-4000 and asking for HR.