Regional Finance Manager

Regional Finance Manager

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better? Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Finance Manager to support our Western North America operations. The position can be based in one of our western region offices, including Oakland, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, or San Diego, CA; Lakewood or Greenwood Village, CO; Seattle or Bainbridge Island, WA; or other office locations within the Western region. As a member of the regional leadership team, this role is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing accounting, budgeting, and financial functions across regional offices. The Regional Finance Manager will oversee daily activities of regional contract administrative staff, ensuring adherence to corporate finance and accounting policies and procedures. The role also involves working closely with project managers to maintain effective financial controls related to invoicing, revenue recognition, work in progress, purchasing, and accounts receivable. Additionally, the individual will collaborate with the Corporate Accounting and Finance group to evaluate, recommend, and implement strategies for improving regional financial performance.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service. We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Support regional leadership and operations teams in creating regional plans to achieve billing targets, rates, direct and indirect project costs, overhead, and profitability margins for professional services.
• Assist regional leadership and operations teams with analyzing and interpreting operating results and their impact on regional operations.
• Collaborate with department heads, project managers, and relevant corporate staff to enhance project accounting delivery systems to improve financial performance.
• Examine financial data, prepare custom reports to summarize financial data, and communicate performance indicators to operations managers and department heads.
• Oversee project initiation, billing, and collection activities in a regional office to ensure timely and accurate completion of these functions.
• Analyze monthly financial statements to identify trends and variances; work with regional leadership to develop and implement action plans.
• Compile, review, and present statistical information and reports measuring project performance against financial goals; recommend and implement actions to align results with objectives.
• Establish and maintain systems for project managers to regularly update status, budgets, and other project-