Regional Operations Controller - Military veterans preferred

Surveying And Mapping, LLC


Regional Operations Controller

US-TX-Houston

Job ID: 25-6835
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Accounting/Finance
Houston

Overview

For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services™ (MGS™) framework. As North America's premiere MGS™ company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high-fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.

This position is responsible for overseeing the financial activities and project accounting oversight at the Region and Area levels. The role will report directly to the Vice President/Region Leader with a dotted line into the Chief Financial Officer. The role will support the Area Operations Directors and the Project Managers providing guidance, support and reporting on project performance and the overall profit and loss statement of the region. Additionally, the position will monitor daily the open accounts receivable and unbilled, driving the ongoing support of the PMs and will provide a key support role in the monthly forecasting of revenue. 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Establish and maintain relationships with Project Managers, Project Specialists and Ops Managers
• Establish and maintain relationships with business clients and customers
• Assist with presentations of finance and board of director meetings
• Collaborate with the corporate financial organization including FP&A, Billing, Credit and Collections, Payroll and General Accounting
• Assist the CFO as needed on special projects

Supervision over project level accounting and performance at the Region/Area Level

• Project maintenance, compliance, and revenue recognition; working closely with Project Managers and Project Specialist
• Billings, collections, and overall DSO (including escalation process); support and drive the billings and collections for the Region/Areas through the project management function with the PMs
• Non labor project activity to include unit and non-labor (expenses, equipment); ensure capture reporting is adhered to for effective equipment utilization
• Reconciliation of project level performance to “reported”
• Assist in enforcing overall effective timesheet management

Ownership of reporting period performance review and active participation in budget/forecast compilation and review

• Report and track/analyze KPI of the Region/Areas including ELM, NLM, OH multiplier, DSO (unbilled and AR), Gross Profit Margin
• Conduct reporting period Actual v. Plan analysis and review and provide analysis to management (i.e. financial reviews) with the support of the corporate FP&A organization
• Provide revenue and overall gross profit monthly forecast, working closely to develop and track with the Region/Area leaders and partnering with the Corporate FP&A organization
• Assist areas within the region in the compilation and review of project expectations down to the project level (reasonableness, achievability, consistency, etc.)
• Manage system enhancements within ERP Project Accounting System (SME on BST functionality)
• Partner with and assist Financial Accounting and FPA teams to ensure accurate, effective, and timely reporting

Other

• Supports the company to achieve its vision and mission, while successfully practicing its core values related to employees, ethics, operational excellence, safety, integrity and corporate social responsibility
• Work closely with the business development/sales teams to understand customer needs and requirements
• Travel within the region and US as a whole up to 25% of the time

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting or related field required
• 7+ years in accounting, finance, operations management or related field
• 3+ years of similar service industry experience required
• Experience in the A-E-C or related industry desired
• Demonstrated competency of leadership and interpersonal skills
• Experience with BST accounting systems or similar project-based accounting system is a very strong plus
• Ability to work with all levels of employees within the organization as well as outside consultants and vendors
• Proficiency in MS Word, Office, and Excel
• Familiarity with PowerBI will be an asset
• CPA license is a plus

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