South Region Finance Area Lead
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Saint Petersburg
Posted on: April 16, 2024
Job Description:
Who we areFor more than 40 years, Covanta has been at the
forefront of sustainable materials management, providing companies
and communities world-class waste and resource solutions.Through
our diverse and scalable full-service capabilities, we're leading
the charge to a carbon-negative future-reducing, reusing, recycling
and reimagining waste for the benefit of both people and planet.Our
differentiator comes from our vast ecosystem of technology,
facilities, and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest
organizations to solve their most pressing environmental
challenges, and achieve their most ambitious environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) goals.All that we're missing is you. Join us
today!!Our valuesDiversity, inclusivity, engagement-these are the
values that help us foster a strong sense of community within
Covanta. By embracing the unique talents, perspectives, and
experiences of our employees, we cultivate an environment that
embraces teamwork, encourages open dialogue, and provides
opportunities for growth.About the roleSouth Region Finance Area
LeadBased out of our Pinellas facility or Remote-FLThis is a unique
leadership opportunity to be a part of a dynamic finance team as
well as to interact with regional leaders, Facility and Area
Managers to further develop Business Decision Support and FP&A
capabilities for the South Region in Environmental Services.This is
a key role within the Regional Finance Organization directly
reporting to the Senior Finance Director of Operations,
Environmental Services. The Area Finance Lead has direct
responsibility to support and lead the Decision Support processes
for Operations and Commercial Finance, FP&A Processes including
forecasting, budget, long range plan and monthly reporting
activities and as well as to serve as the main contact for the
Shared Service Center to coordinate all reporting activities with
the Facility Senior Management Team monthly. The role involves
providing financial planning support to the Sr Finance Director of
Operation - ES, Regional CFO, Facility Managers, area assets
managers and Regional Chief Operating Officer (COO).This position
supports the Facilities and oversees functional cost centers, drive
FP&A and management reporting process for all facilities under
its responsibility, annual budget plan, forecasting, outlooks
(weekly pulse, financial estimates), Long Range Plan (LRP) and will
improve and standardize reporting tools across the facilities and
the south region. This position will have extended responsibility
to oversee monthly reporting activities performed under US
generally accepted accounting (US GAAP) principles, internal
policies, SOX and procedures.The Area Finance Lead will be an
integral team member of Covanta's South Region Finance team and
will provide support to prepare financial executive level
presentations and will support scenario planning and sensitive
analysis when required.
- Partner with the facility/Regional management in achieving
business objectives including financial, operational and
commercial.
- Support Facility Managers, Area Managers, Commercial
Organization, Asset Managers, COO, Chief Commercial Officer and
Region Leaders to perform contract reviews, commercial proposals
and scenario planning.
- Partner with Shared Service Center Organization (SSC) to ensure
timely reporting of financial statements for all facilities under
his/her responsibility are performed in compliance with US
generally accepted accounting (US GAAP) principles, internal
policies, SOX and procedures.
- Interact with Internal and external auditors to coordinate
facilities and SSC to prepare and deliver all documentation
required for internal and external audits.
- Support Sr Finance Director of Operations, Regional FP&A
and partner with Corporate FP&A as well as Shared Service
Center teams to ensure timely, accurate and insightful financial
analysis that allow to monitor business KPIs (including collections
/ account receivables) and enable effective decision making.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on consolidated regional
performance against budget and prior year including financial walk
across and bridges to generate insightful analytics for price and
volume analytics.
- Perform operational statistical and metrics tracking, evaluate
financial performance comparing actual results to plans while also
making recommendations to obtain goals.
- Provides financial support in delivering monthly, quarterly,
and annual financial reporting to monitor targets versus budget and
long-term plan. Evaluate financial and operation performance
(operational statistical and metrics tracking) and make
recommendations to obtain goals. Includes preparing financial
reporting packages and explanations.
- Develop new analysis views to assist in analyzing financial
performance, KPIs, etc., including any special projects and ad hoc
request as assigned and required.
- Partner with facility managers, regional leaders in forecasting
and analyzing regional department overhead costs.
- Support Sr Finance Director of Operations - ES, Regional
FP&A, Commercial Finance and Regional CFO to develop systems
and processes to support Region's ability to forecast and budget to
meet internal business needs as well as corporate planning
requirements including:
- Partner with commercial organization to help enhance process to
analyze, manage and report revenue results, forecast, and
opportunities.
- Partner with key stakeholders across the facilities & region to
develop forecasts and budgets, as well as with accounting teams to
deliver monthly closing processes.
- Support Region to ensure facility, regional and corporate
submissions are met on a timely basis.
- Ensure that supporting data and analysis is relevant and
accurate.
- Support to raise the capabilities of ES finance team to become
a trusted/value added business partner.
- Deliver expense analytics to support cost management
allocation, expense reduction and support to improve budget and
forecast accuracy.
- Partner with Facility Managers and Regional leaders in
forecasting, budgeting
- Participate in weekly morning meeting for each facility under
his/her responsibility as well as visit each facility on monthly
basis (as per business needs or minimum once per month)Education
and Desire Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in finance, Administration, Economics,
Engineering, Mathematics, or related field. CPA or MBA is a
plus.
- 8+ years or equivalent experience in Finance Commercial,
Finance FP&A, Finance Supply Chain, Plant Controller. Project
modeling and scenario planning is a plus.
- Ability to interpret and adhere to contractual language.
- Direct report to Senior Finance Leaders or Regional CFOs in
positions supporting regional organizations.
- Other Experiences: Product P&L, regional HQ, G&A
expenses, cost control, process improvement and
standardization.Essential Skills and Competencies:
- Accountability, Collaboration, eager to learn, drive by
results, manage ambiguity, self-management, self-motivated,
critical thinking, and strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical ability to understand impact of financials
changes and support to prepared corrective actions.
- Ability to deliver high quality work under pressure of tight
deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills and ability to
build a strong network across the organization.
- Ability to work with a range of functionally diverse peoples,
influencing them to get things done, and delivering value added
business results that meet high quality requirements within
deadlines.
- Strong knowledge on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): JDEdwards EnterpriseOne
(Oracle), SAP, Cognos, Hyperion, CAFE, Tableau BI, SmartView.Our
DEI CommitmentCovanta is an Equal Opportunity Employer, has
developed an Affirmative Action Program (AAP), and will not
discriminate against any qualified applicants because of race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender
identity, disability (including perceived disability, physical,
mental, and/or intellectual disabilities), veteran status,
liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or
any other characteristic protected by law. Know Your Rights
()Please note that Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based
on the applicant's experience or skills.If you are an individual
with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a
reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your
ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site
because of your disability. You can request reasonable
accommodations by going to Covanta.com and clicking on the 'Contact
Us' button. Under Inquires, select 'Careers' in the Interest field,
fill out all required fields including your message. In the message
section, please note this is a 'Job Application Accommodation
Request'.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Pinellas Park , South Region Finance Area Lead, Accounting, Auditing , Saint Petersburg, Florida
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