Business Finance Manager

Overview

This role supports State and Regional staff in achieving financial and operational objectives through implementation and administration of financial plans. It assists with the annual budget process, periodic forecasting, and analysis of operational performance, and provides financial analysis to support business decision-making while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an effective control environment under SOX 404 for the accounting operations overseen, including key and non-key controls.
• Timely update and modify control design as necessary and oversee control remediation activities when exceptions are encountered during testing.
• Perform monthly and quarterly analysis of operations’ results for all State and Regional Centers versus plan(s).
• Prepare financial plans aligned to annual budgets, quarterly revenue and profit targets, headcount authorizations, and recurring forecasts.
• Serve as the regions’ primary liaison to corporate finance and accounting, articulating field operations’ support and assistance needs.
• Support corporate finance and accounting staff by helping develop systems and approaches that meet organization requirements and respond to field needs.
• Act as a financial resource to the operating group Vice President and State Director(s).
• Review and recommend approval of State and Region headcount additions.
• Review and recommend approval of requisitions for capital and operating expenditures in accordance with Region/Corporate goals and needs.
• Provide financial input and recommendations for approval of requisitions of capital and operating expenditures.
• Provide financial input and recommendations for contracts and proposals.
• Assist in financial-related areas during key account presentations.
• Perform other related duties and activities as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Direct and supervise Accounting Managers and Accountants, including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training.
• Make decisions on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions.
• Resolve employee problems within the scope of position responsibilities.

Requirements

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field
• MBA preferred
• 5 - 7 years’ experience in accounting/financial management

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• CPA preferred

Other Requirements

• Travel as needed

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Accommodation Statement

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation determined on a case-by-case basis via the interactive process.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, the organization does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.