Director, Capital Finance

Job Category: Admin, Professional & Operations Support

Requisition Number: DIREC
008977

• Full-Time

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Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services, Inc. (GRSI)
Jacksonville, FL , USA

Are you ready to build a rewarding career in the railroad industry? Join the Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) team — part of a legacy that is over 125 years old. With a network of 100+ individual freight railroads and 4,000 employees across North America, we provide transportation and logistics services to more than 2,000 customers.

At G&W, we live by our Core Values:
Safety, Service, Integrity, Respect, Transparency, Accountability, Innovation and Excellence
. We offer competitive pay, a comprehensive benefits package, and paid training to help you succeed. Check out some of our great benefits below:

• Life Insurance
• Optional benefit coverages for Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital,  & Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings account plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• On the Job Training
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• And more!

* Benefits are subject to change

Explore your future with G&W today and learn more about the opportunities to grow across our organization!

The Director, Capital Finance owns the financial translation of the Company's capital program. Engineering decides what to build, Procurement buys it, Accounts Payable pays for it and the Grant teams deliver the funded programs; this role is accountable for the accurate tracking of spend, billing and capitalization of the projects. The position is accountable for the integrity of the capital budget in D365 and Adaptive, for the control environment around overruns and reallocations, for capital accounting through capitalization and closeout, and for billing and collecting grant and rebillable receivables from government agencies.

It leads the Capital and Grant/Rebillable accounting teams and serves as the primary Finance partner to Program Management, Engineering, Mechanical and field leadership.

• Own the accuracy of the capital budget in D365 and Adaptive, ensuring every approved project is set up correctly, funded to the authorized amount, and coded to the right entity, asset class and cost structure.
• Reconcile capital data between D365, Adaptive and project reporting so the organization works from one set of numbers rather than competing spreadsheets.
• Ensure the approved capital plan is faithfully represented in the systems of record, and that subsequent changes are reflected promptly and with an audit trail.
• Manage project financial setup, structure and approval routing, and ensure no spend is incurred against a project that has not been properly authorized.
• Support the annual and long-range capital planning processes by gathering project inputs, validating assumptions, and improving consistency across submissions.

• Track actual capital spend against approved budgets and forecasts, identifying risks, timing shifts and areas requiring management attention early enough to act on them.
• Manage the overrun process end to end: surface variances early, quantify the financial impact, and prepare the recommendation for decision. Accountability for the overrun itself rests with Engineering or the Division VP; this role ensures it is visible, quantified and reviewed.
• Manage the reallocation of capital between projects, preparing recommendations, documenting rationale and executing approved transfers in the systems of record.
• Maintain project-level budgets, commitments, accruals, cash flow forecasts and variance analysis in partnership with FP&A and operating teams.
• Evaluate the financial impact of…