Senior Finance Director, North America Region

What We Can Achieve Together

The Senior Director of Finance, North America Region (NAR) is senior position with responsibility for financial strategy and management of the North America Region including the Western US & Canada, Pacific, Great Plains, Midwest, Southern, Northeast, New York, and Caribbean divisions (and country and state business units within these divisions). The Senior Director is a member of the Finance Leadership team, reporting to the Head of Global Finance, with a dotted line to the Executive Vice President, North America, Caribbean and Micronesia.

This role is responsible for both developing and leading major enterprise finance initiatives as well as implementing and owning the execution of these initiatives in the region. This role must demonstrate effective leadership through relationship-building, collaboration, change management and communication. They are accountable for supporting the development of quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and multi-year plans as well as the overall financial management and fiscal sustainability of North America.

This role will:

• Serve as a strategic thought leader and partner for the EVP of North America, Caribbean and Micronesia, with a focus on long-range and annual planning and budgeting, business development, and financial sustainability.
• Effectively collaborate with divisional and business unit leadership teams across these areas in financial planning and strategic decision-making to enhance program quality and impact.
• Be responsible for the financial management of the North America Region including developing and setting budgets and monitoring expenses, analyzing results, and taking corrective actions.
• Play a key role in important strategic financial and organization-wide initiatives and projects including operating model implementation, redesigning our approach to resource allocation, full cost budgeting and indirect cost recovery, and building a multi-year financial plan, among others.
• Work effectively across key regions and business units with the Chief Conservation Office, Development, and other areas to integrate strategic conservation and campaign priorities with annual and multi-year financial plans.
• Provide strategic financial planning & analysis support for major conservation projects and programs.
• Implement strategic, integrated, and collaborative approaches to the quarterly forecasting, annual planning & budgeting, and multi-year planning processes for the North America Region and the entire organization.
• Introduce, improve and implement best practices to ensure consistency and clarity of financial planning, reporting and analysis across finance teams within regions and business units.
• Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form, including the ability to synthesize key takeaways, succinctly and convincingly communicate analysis & recommendations, and prepare presentations and reports for senior leaders.
• Serve both in a leadership role within Finance and to the North America Region, a direct supervisor to ten (10) team members and an overall team of over 100 staff providing effective people management, development and support.
• Report on North America to Finance leadership and BOD Finance Committee, represents the Finance Division on committees with organization-wide scope. Serves as a member of the Finance Leadership Team.
• Ensure alignment with TNC priorities, governance standards, and long-term financial sustainability across all North America divisions and business units.

• Provide trusted, respected strategic support through timely and accurate financial reports, projections, models, and analysis to the CFO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and key leaders.
• Play a significant role in sound and fact-based strategic decision-making, providing perspective across the enterprise.
• Analyze, identify trends, proactively communicate insights and help prioritize the capital allocation and resource investments to execute on our strategy and goals.
• Ensures programmatic commitments, TNC policies and procedures, financial standards and legal requirements are met and managed for ethical compliance.
• Provides oversight for comprehensive policies, procedures, and institutional guidelines related to finance function.
• Contribute to clear communication of financial performance, goals and metrics to senior leaders, the Board of Directors (BOD), and broader organization.
• Continuously raise the bar on our financial insight capabilities/tools and models to meet current and future needs of the organization.
• Work with programs to develop, review and monitor budgets, forecasts and multi-year financial plans for the region, divisions, and business units.
• Assist in the negotiations for complex, high profile, or sensitive agreements and provide financial expertise on special projects.
• Engage in recruitment / training of new finance staff that report to this position or others.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive…