Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

The role of the Finance Business Partner (FBP) is to be the conduit between the Regional Business Units and Finance to provide centralized financial support to help drive business performance. Specifically, the Finance Business Partner will help a Region or Department manage the profitability of their business or projects, and help the leadership team drive profitable financial results by managing to a Budget, driving KPIs and helping to identify financial risks and opportunities. They will lead and coordinate the budgeting and forecasting processes and timelines. Additionally, the FBP will partner with leadership to help develop, drive and execute positive financial results supporting the company's strategy as well as improving shareholder returns. This position reports to the Director of FP&A.

Responsibilities:

• Translate complex financial data into business terms and provide strategic and actionable insights
• Support Regional Operations Leaders of CRB with financial forecasting, variance analysis, scenario modeling, and reporting of monthly, quarterly, yearly results to provide context for revenue/profit/sales
• Serve as a key member of the leadership team for the business unit, providing financial guidance and support to facilitate informed decision making
• Analyze Regional financial performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to business stakeholders
• Improve the financial literacy and business analysis skills of the teams you support
• Drive process improvements and automation initiatives to streamline financial processes, enhance efficiency, and improve data and forecast accuracy
• Evaluate current and prospective staffing plans for a balanced approach in line with utilization targets
• Attend appropriate regional leadership weekly/monthly meetings
• Assess financial risks and opportunities
• Own and optimize the regional budgeting and forecasting process to ensure accuracy and alignment with strategic objectives
• Serve as liaison between the Regional teams and Finance
• Partner with Region to help lead month-end financial review meetings
• Participate in the new business pipeline and support commercial strategies of specific processes
• Support Regional Cost Control Manager in review of project estimates/forecasts and opps/temps, broad scenario modeling
• Support the CFO and ELT with adhoc financial modeling

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
• Previous experience in financial planning, analysis (FP&A) and financial modeling required
• Previous FP&A experience in architectural, engineering, construction services field recommended
• 5-10 years' experience in FP&A highly preferred
• Demonstrated experience and success across financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
• Highly proficient in Excel & PowerPoint; experience with Microsoft Power BI, VBA / other coding, preferred
• An agile thinker who is able to adapt to a complex, fast-moving environment
• Confident communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Strong intuition for business, with the ability to build positive relationships with key collaborators
• Ability to push back and lead difficult conversations with integrity and modesty
• Ability to apply finance knowledge to resolve complex business challenges, including the ability to distil and convey finance information to non-finance business leads
• Ability to travel as needed

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

CRB is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Employment is contingent on background screening.

CRB does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of CRB without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of CRB. Please, no phone calls or emails.

CRB offers a complete and competitive benefit package designed to meet individual and family needs.

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