Director of Finance (Local Solutions)

Job ID: 512660

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 Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions within the Local Solutions business unit, partnering directly with the two Regional Presidents and their support teams. The role has complete ownership for cost reporting, cost control, financial performance metrics, and FP&A requirements for the region. This role will act as an advisor and business partner for the regional leadership team by interpreting financial results relative to business strategy and making recommendations to improve EBITDA performance. This position reports directly to the Local Solutions Finance Director and typically has 2/3 direct reports, with a total team of 6 to 8. Assessing, recruiting, coaching, and developing talent is critical to success in this role. This is a critical finance leadership role in a growing business undergoing significant change and investment. It provides the potential for career development in a large global organization.

• Partner with Regional Presidents directly, and Area General Managers indirectly 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.
• Educate and influence business partners of cost objectives and be a leader in solutioning problems.
• Manage operational performance on improvement goals and key performance indicators.
• Streamline processes for efficiency and identify cost savings opportunities.
• 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.
• Coordinate and own the weekly forecasting process.
• 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 factors affecting performance
• Provide business modelling and risk assessments
• Develop and prepare annual, quarterly, monthly, and ad-hoc financial and metric reporting

• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a team of Business Support Managers, and Financials Analysts.
• Delegate finance activities to team members, as appropriate
• Understand team deliverables to help prioritize workloads for the team.
• Provide effective leadership to staff, direct reports, and others within the organization to improve their performance and advance their career development
• Train and develop staff to ensure work is progressing as desired in the areas of proper collection, calculation, and reporting of manufacturing costs, and reporting of cost, production, inventory, and other financial information to aid in career progression.

• Support accounting and control initiatives for the region, including helping to coordinate planned cycle counts, full physical inventories, and physical asset verifications.

• 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%
• 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