Sr. Regional Director - Finance East

Overview

The Sr. Regional Director of Finance for the East Region serves as a business partner, advisor, and key contributor to the Regional Executive Vice President and Region leadership team in the development of long‑range strategies and short‑term goals through sound business insights and synthesized financial information, collaborating collectively across other central finance departments. This is accomplished by providing financial reporting, business analysis, insights, recommendations, plans and forecasts.

Supporting a business P&L of $1.3B to $1.6B.

• Gain understanding of financial and non‑financial business drivers and provide insights to Regional Leadership on how to maximize performance.
• Ensures adherence to policies, procedures, and controls, as well as GAAP and IFRS to ensure complete and accurate financial records.
• Partner with the Business Unit Finance teams and Shared Services to ensure standard financial practices are executed at local and regional levels.
• Leads a team of Area Finance Directors who ensure financial reporting throughout the region, providing insights and support to Area VPs and Branch Managers. Provide leadership and governance for timely and accurate financial reports and analysis to support better business decision making and overall regional strategies. Present monthly financial results to the region, with an understanding of key variances to measure performance.
• Owns and leads a set of key management reports and other KPIs easily understood by financial and non‑financial personnel within the region; creates presentations summarizing results of analyses to present to senior management.
• Build financial acumen within the region through participation and active involvement in business discussions and ensure adequate financial/operational reporting from Company systems (EPM and Power BI) allowing branches/areas/region to effectively use solid information to run the business.
• In conjunction with regional operations, oversees periodic reviews of backlog (NI, MOD and Repair) and job performance (Service) to ensure financial completeness and accuracy; ensure that the Region is capturing all annual revenue opportunities in all lines of business including pricing/rates and business cases on investment proposals with a clear demonstration of ROI.
• Provides timely, complete, and accurate budget information; leads annual budgeting planning for the entire region.
• Provides timely and accurate forecasting information; supporting rationale for variances from previous forecasts; works with regional leadership and areas for plans and mitigating actions.
• Direct oversight and accountability for managing all working capital performance metrics within the region overseeing periodic reviews of aged receivables in conjunction with branch operations and shared service support.
• Collaborates and ensure timely flow of documentation and information between areas and all corporate finance departments.
• Support all financial audits; coordinates information to all internal and external auditors for all financial audits of the region resulting in zero audit findings.

• Must have finance leadership in elevator or construction industries.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related field required, Master’s in Accounting or Business Administration is a plus.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) highly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience for a major company or division of a large corporation with dispersed operations.
• Solid understanding of GAAP and IFRS.
• Must be well organized, have a high energy level, strong work ethic, acute attention to detail and be process oriented.
• Have simplification, standardization, automation, and optimization as part of DNA.
• Demonstrate a positive “can do” attitude; must be motivated, goal oriented and proactive.
• Ability to identify, own, understand, supervise, and delegate all accounting and financial tasks to ensure accurate completion under strict timelines with minimal guidance; ability to react well under pressure and willing to accept responsibility.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving…