Finance Business Partner

Description

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.

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance