Director of Finance (Business Partner)

Job ID: 516317

Exempt

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We're more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We're a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we're leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

The Director of Finance Business Partnering is the go-to finance leader for the Midwest and Texas regions within the Local Solutions business, partnering directly with the two Regional Presidents and their support teams.

The role is responsible for:

• Strategic Planning and Decision Support through providing financial analysis and insights to guide decision making and strategic planning including investment decisions (acquisitions and capex).
• Evaluating business performance against financial targets and monitoring of internal and external KPIs (both leading and lagging).
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with business leaders and colleagues to ensure financial insights are integrated into business operations and decisions.
• Working with business leaders to set and update financial targets including budgets and forecasts
• Understanding profitability drivers and insights on revenue generation and cost saving opportunities.
• Understanding of the impact of external factors including markets, competitors and regulations on our business
• Driving better decision making through impactful insights and influencing skills.

• Partner with Regional Presidents and Area General Managers to provide financial expertise and operational leadership to drive the strategic direction for the manufacturing sites
• Provide operations management with strategic tools and interpreted reports to help drive business results.
• Partner with operations leadership to support long-term capital allocation strategy and strategic financial decision making
• Prepare and manage the annual budgeting process for the regions,
• Ensure the weekly forecasting process is complete and accurate, providing good visibility of likely outturn as well as actions required to hit targets.
• Analyze and interpret plant operation results, evaluating variances, and assessing the effect on plant operations.
• Monitor financial performance to identify and drive cost reductions and cost control initiatives.
• Research pricing, competitors' trends and other factors affecting performance
• Provide business modelling and risk assessments

• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a team of finance professionals.
• Delegate finance activities to team members, as appropriate
• Partner with the Accounting and FP&A functions to support completion of all relevant internal and external reporting requirements.

• Support ERP integration preparations in alignment with overall Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) systems strategy involving significant investment in a new ERP system
• Participate in a range of group / divisional projects as required

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. Advanced Degrees, CMA, CPA a plus
• 10+ years manufacturing finance and/or cost accounting experience required
• 2+ years leadership experience required
• Experience with data mining or planning applications
• Experience with complex ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, SysPro, Sage)
• Advanced MS Office
• Travel - 25% to 50%
• The ability to be tactical as well as see the bigger operational picture.

• Proven ability to synthesize complex and detailed data and information into meaningful outtakes and decision base information.
• Attention to detail around producing high quality products and meeting deadlines
• In-Depth understanding of measurement of goals and key performance indices

• Ability to challenge information and uncover robust facts and data to improve insights and the quality of the final decision
• Demonstrated ability to identify problems and this independently about alternative ways to solve problems based on analysis of data.
• Ability to act independently as a subject matter expert with limited supervision.
• Ability to implement ideas across a multi-plant environment
• Ability to influence others without a direct reporting relationship.

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion