Head of Finance, North America

Jack Morton Worldwide•Chicago, MA

10h

About The Position

The Head of Finance, North America owns the financial performance of Jack Morton’s largest region by scale and profitability, delivering revenue, EBITDA, and cash commitments while ensuring that pricing, staffing, and investment decisions are grounded in clear economics. This hands-on operator partners with regional leaders in real time in a project-based business where scoping, pricing, staffing, and billing directly affect margins. The role also rebuilds the region’s finance operating model, including standardized forecasting and reporting, implementation of a new ERP, outsourced transaction accounting, and processes spanning the full project lifecycle. The successful candidate will run the business and build the finance function in parallel, lead the North America finance team, and develop a commercial, client-oriented culture with clear accountability.

Requirements

Senior finance leadership experience for a regional or divisional P&L of meaningful scale.
Background in project-based professional services, an agency, or experiential marketing, with a deep understanding of pricing, utilization, and project profitability.
Strong FP&A and forecasting discipline.
Track record of partnering with commercial leaders and influencing decisions in real time.
Experience in cash and working capital management.
Private-equity-backed experience and ability to meet the pace and accountability demands of that environment.
Experience leading a finance team through integration, systems change, or operating model redesign.
Hands-on operating approach, bias for action, and high accountability for outcomes.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, or MBA.
Post-merger integration experience.
US and Canada exposure.
Experience working with an outsourced accounting provider.
Familiarity with D365 (F&O), DataRails, and Power BI.
Practical use of AI and automation in finance.

Responsibilities

Own North America revenue, EBITDA, and margin against plan; lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecasts, and run weekly and monthly forecasting cadences that surface risks and drive corrective action.
Serve as the primary finance partner to the North America President and leadership team, providing decision support on pricing, resource allocation, client and portfolio profitability, and investment.
Lead client finance teams and enforce disciplined scoping, estimating, pricing, billing, and project profitability practices.
Partner with business and legal teams on MSAs, rate cards, rebates, and contract terms.
Align staffing and cost structure with revenue expectations; drive utilization and productivity; and hold portfolio and capability groups to contribution targets.
Own the regional 13-week cash forecast and working capital performance; improve billing timeliness, collections, DSO, and vendor terms.
Deliver monthly reporting on performance, risks, and actions; partner with corporate accounting and the outsourced accounting provider to ensure regional results are accurate, timely, and useful.
Establish standardized forecasting, reporting, and KPI tracking; drive adoption of the new ERP (D365); implement end-to-end finance processes across the project lifecycle; and support procurement discipline and pricing and cost allocation frameworks.
Track and deliver regional integration synergies and cost savings.
Lead and develop the North America finance team, establishing clear roles and accountability and a commercial, client-oriented culture; apply AI and automation to reduce manual effort.