Director of Finance (Prestigious, Downtown Boston Business) at Boston

Job Description

The company:

Our client is a fast growth success story which has recently doubled its revenue and is set for strong strategic expansion. The business offers an extremely strong business model with high built in returns.

The Opportunity:

The Director of Finance is a newly created position reporting directly to the North American COO/CFO. This role presents an opportunity to participate in a growth oriented company and to gain exposure and understanding of the energy industry. This role is ideally suited to a high capability, career oriented finance leader seeking a challenging leadership opportunity.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage the Regional Finance Function; the team will comprise of two direct reports covering two Operating Centers and 3-4 financial analysts as indirect reports.
• Lead the budgets and monthly forecast process for annual capital expenditure, major maintenance projects and operating expenses for the Region.
• Consolidate, monitor and report on the 20 year sustainable capital expenditure program for the Region. Support the Regional COO in ensuring that the plans stay on track vs. M&A assumptions and other metric.
• Own the cash-flow projections for the region and ensure forecast accuracy.
• Lead the review of YTD/MTD performance and YTGo forecast of the Region, and consolidate variance analysis to explain deviations and gaps vs. plan/PYR. Work with Regional COO and Vice Presidents of the Operating Centers on gap remediation efforts.
• Partner with Regional COO and Director or Lender Relations on understanding, evaluating and communicating issues arising at the assets to the lenders and help this team manage the resulting follow-ups.
• Ensure that regional finance team prepares the disclosures and analysis on quarterly lender reporting in an accurate and timely manner.
• Work with Director of Lender Relations on forecasting cash-trap situations due to loan covenants and develop ideas for remediation.
• Partner with regional COO and Vice President Business Planning & Analysis on review of IRF (Investment Request Form) proposals and ensure that proposal is adequately evaluated from a risk & commercial stand-point.
• Partner with Land Director on assessment revaluation effort with local county/city/state organizations and provide support from Manager BPA, as required, on such effort.
• Lead the effort to build commercial capability and awareness amongst the operations teams and ensure investment & day-to-day decision process adequately covers financial/commercial considerations.
• Develop a set of Finance Best Practices & Procedures for use by OC Managers and Analysts.
• Lead the review of monthly and quarterly financial results and management reports for the Region with the management of the Region.
• Support the operations management on cost control, performance monitoring, productivity initiative tracking, management of OM&A and Capex relating costing.
• Support the Regional COO and develop managerial reports tailored to his or her needs.
• Support the VP, BPA in various related activities and special projects as required.

What we are looking for:

Applicants to the position of Director of Finance must offer:

• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance or a related discipline. Accounting or finance designation or a MBA will be a strong advantage
• Between 8 and 15 maximum years of fast scaling Finance experience at a pedigree $1bill size business
• Experience preferably gained in a fast growth, highly regulated industry such as Energy, Biotech etc
• Ability to communicate and deploy financial concepts within a non-financial peer-group
• Ability to manage teams and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced work environment; open minded and flexibility in adapting to change
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and in a team environment
• Accurate and detail oriented
• Solid abilities in working with Excel
• Prior experience on managing issues and lender relations will be an advantage
• Knowledge & experience of working on IFS ERP platform and IFRS accounting standards will be an advantage

Whats on offer:

Competitive base salary, annual bonus, stock + benefits incl 401k, healthcare, PTO

Job Requirements

 
Country: USA, State: Massachusetts, City: Boston, Company: Michael Page.