Regional Financial Controller

MasTec Utility Services•Delray Beach, FL

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Regional Financial Controller oversees the region’s budget and forecasting process, financial reporting, and project financial performance. The role ensures the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial information and provides senior management with insight into project profitability, cash flow, cost performance, and financial risks. The position manages a regional finance team and works closely with executive leadership, operations, and accounting. It establishes strong financial reporting processes, reviews project financial results, challenges key assumptions, and ensures financial performance is accurately reflected in regional financial statements and forecasts. This is an oversight and business-partnering role focused on financial reporting quality, project financial visibility, and financial governance rather than routine accounting transactions. The opportunity is hybrid, and the employee must be able to travel to the office.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
Typically 7–10 years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including meaningful experience in budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and financial performance reporting.
Demonstrated ability to review and challenge financial results, estimates, and forecasts prepared by accounting and operational teams.
Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with ERP, job-costing, and construction project management systems.
Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Must be able to travel to the office.
The position may require standing or walking on uneven ground, climbing ladders or working at heights, working in tight spaces, lifting up to 25 pounds, and working in an all-weather environment.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional qualification.
Experience in the construction or project-based services industry is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness of regional financial reporting.
Analyze financial results and explain significant variances against budgets, forecasts, prior periods, and management expectations.
Ensure appropriate application of accounting standards, including revenue recognition and construction project accounting.
Identify reporting gaps, unusual transactions, and potential financial risks, and escalate significant matters to senior management.
Oversee reporting and monitoring of project profitability, cost performance, gross margins, and forecast final costs.
Challenge project teams on forecasts, anticipated losses, contingency usage, and margin assumptions.
Identify emerging project risks, including cost overruns, schedule delays, unapproved change orders, and potential margin erosion.
Work with project managers and operations leaders to improve the quality, consistency, and reliability of project financial forecasts.
Provide consolidated reporting on project performance, backlog, margins, and financial risk exposure.
Oversee preparation of the annual budget and periodic financial forecasts.
Review assumptions relating to revenue, project costs, overheads, staffing, capital expenditures, and cash flow.
Prepare financial analysis to support business planning, resource allocation, and strategic decisions.
Compare actual results with approved budgets and forecasts, highlight key drivers, and recommend corrective actions.
Assess the financial impact of new projects, contract awards, project delays, and changes in the construction pipeline.
Monitor working capital trends, including accounts receivable, retainage, and unbilled revenue.
Review project billing and collection performance and identify potential cash flow constraints.
Provide forward-looking cash flow analysis and early warning of potential funding requirements.
Work with operations and project teams to improve cash conversion and working capital management.
Prepare and present financial performance reports to executive leadership and other key stakeholders.
Translate financial results into business insights, highlighting trends, risks, opportunities, and required management actions.
Partner with project executives, project managers, and operations teams to improve financial accountability.
Challenge financial assumptions and promote ownership of project budgets, forecasts, and profitability.