Office Finance Manager

1 month ago

Oakland, United States HNTB Full time

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails working closely with the Office Leader and Office Management Team (OMT) to execute strategies that achieve the office’s performance goals. Provides leadership in developing and maintaining best business practices and standards of performance in the operational and finance functional areas within the offices including, office operating budget, forecasting process, and the analysis of monthly office performance relative to plans and budget for all functional areas. The Office Finance Manager has overall ownership and fiduciary responsibility for revenue recognition and financial compliance. This position can manage operating budgets for multiple offices within an Office Leader’s scope of which could be a combination of one or more design, field, or project offices.

The Office Finance Manager hires and develops a team of finance professionals, providing training and development opportunities. This position acts as a business partner to office leadership and project teams. This role works collaboratively with cross functional managers driving profitability, working capital practices and company policies.

What You’ll Do:

  • Partners with office leadership in the preparation of strategic planning and operating budget (and quarterly updates) and plays an active role in the evaluation and implementation of strategic initiatives. Monitors monthly results, conducts financial analysis, and provides recommendations for improved performance.

  • As a member of the OMT, responsible for initiating or supporting solutions, profitability enhancements and process improvements to meet the office goals. Coordinates reporting of performance variances to contribution, earnings, and cash.

  • Organizes and leads a highly effective project finance team with the resources, skills, and abilities to best serve the office’s needs. Recruits, hires, onboards, develops, and retains staff. Responsible for all aspects of Career Planning and Development process consisting of, goal setting, coaching, performance evaluation, and compensation review.

  • Leads office month-end reporting and revenue recognition activities that adhere to the revenue recognition policy. Responsible for maintaining the integrity of the financial data that results in accurate reporting and projecting of our financial results through quality assurance and cost control methods. Consults with office leadership, project managers, delivery, and project finance team to provide an accurate representation of the earnings on our projects by maintaining current and accurate project backlog, reserve reviews, reporting, and revenue projections.

  • Provides financial management guidance to the pursuit, project management, and finance teams to ensure appropriate setup and delivery of contractual business obligations in the areas of contracting, cash management, subcontract management, change management, cost management, and financial controls.

  • Engages in the pursuit process to advantageously position HNTB for successful project delivery. Utilizes knowledge of contract terms to influence favorable proposals that will optimize the project’s cash and profitability outcomes. Provides analysis, strategic planning, and supporting resources to execute HNTB's Sophisticated Approach to Cash during the discovery and planning phases, including strategies for assessing and optimizing client profitability performance.

  • Participates in the office's contract review and negotiations process in accordance with firm processes and policies. Drives successful contract outcomes and contributes to contracting strategies that improve profitability. Champions gross margin performance analysis, and payment and compensation term reviews to make recommendations that maximize our cash performance.

  • Champions office cash management goals, ensuring effective cash collections and timely resolution of delinquent billings. Offers financial forecasting, modeling, and analysis to guide office and project teams in adhering to standardized business processes for financial discipline throughout the client/project lifecycle. Acts as an office liaison with the cash management organization to achieve collaborative and positive results.

  • Collaborates with office leadership in achieving budgeted overhead expenses. Analyzes budgeted adherence of non-labor overhead and advises office management on new strategies or initiatives to manage overhead expenses and maintain sound business practices more effectively.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

  • 2 years of people management experience

  • 8 or more direct and indirect line finance reports, Administration positions are excluded

  • In lieu of education, 14 years of relevant experience and 2 years of people management experience

What We Prefer:

  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or related field.

  • Familiarity with the AE/transportation industry.

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