Director Of Finance
The Quest Organization
Houston, TX
Director of Finance Construction
The Director of Finance will serve as member of the leadership team, providing financial management, insights, and decision support to deliver the strategy and objectives. The Director of Finance reports to the CFO.
Responsibilities
- Deliver financial analysis with insights across markets, customers, segments, resource planning, and cost structure.
- Maintain in-depth financial understanding of project results, customer/segment performance trends, and spending to business partner with leadership on commercial initiatives.
- Lead investment analysis to ensure strategic fit, ROI, and optimal capital allocation
- Ensure financial understanding by leadership
- Supports leadership on competitive analysis, including identifying insights to influence strategy, operations, and defense plans.
- Lead management financial reporting vs budget and prior periods with insights at the department level.
- Support month-end closing cycle
- Ensure accuracy of cost codes
- Maintain understanding of systems to optimize analysis and reporting.
- Provide insights on pricing, project selections, and cash curves
- Ensure financial targets and in-process project performance measures are effective and enabling optimal results
- Participate in the project transition process and meetings to ensure a successful transition from estimating to operations
- Ensure appropriate internal controls and reporting
- Support project managers to track, monitor and adjust critical project activities
- Review estimate revisions to ensure job measures and financials are updated
- Support operations to identify and mitigate risks.
- Monitor project cash flow & over/under billings and report any discrepancies to leadership
- Partner with operations to understand performance progress and areas to improve
- Implement accounting controls and procedures on a regional basis.
- Implement corporate change initiatives
- Develop procedures to ensure efficient administration of projects
- Conduct administrative functions in accordance with policies, laws and regulations
- Approve field checks and administrative expense invoices
- Monitor project managers performance of productivity
- Coach and mentor team members
- Evaluate role performance
- Reward and recognize professional development to encourage continuous learning
- Develop & train on best practices
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in accounting, finance, or construction management
- 10+ years of relevant finance experience with 5+ years at a project-driven business
- ERP experience is required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Understanding of job cost and construction accounting principles and processes
- CPA, MBA, or other advanced certification a plus
- Experience with creating and distributing Power BI reports is a plus
- Experience with project management tools such as MS Project, etc. a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
About the Company
The Quest Organization
For over 30 years, The Quest Organization and its related entities have been a highly respected leader in Executive Search and Business Advisory Services, taking a holistic approach to finding not only the most talented individuals for “C” level executives and Middle Management Professionals, but making sure that our clients have truly defined their need both from a technical perspective and an overall “fit perspective. The hallmark of our success is the extraordinary experience and business acumen of our professional staff with a combined 50+ years of achievements in Executive Search and Advisory Services.
With backgrounds as CPAs in the Big “4″ and as financial professionals in industry, we are uniquely positioned to provide our clients with meaningful hiring recommendations, grounded in a thorough understanding of their overall business including their operations, finance, accounting, human capital and sales.
Our staff through their daily transactions in the employment marketplace and extensive participation in regional business organizations, is well positioned to provide candidates from mid level to CEO’s with insightful advice on career planning and positioning. Every candidate that we represent, benefits from a comprehensive interview to ensure they are considered for appropriate opportunities which match their capabilities, experience, desired compensation and quality of life attributes. We are known to provide the most meticulous interview preparation and follow through in the industry.