Sr. Manager General Finance

Vertiv•Willis, TX

About The Position

The Finance and Accounting Sr. Manager is the senior finance leader within the Purge Rite business and is accountable for its complete finance and accounting function, including FP&A, accounting and controllership, project accounting and revenue recognition, and transactional teams. The position owns the integrity of Purge Rite’s financial results, monthly close, and reporting package delivered to the parent company, as well as forecasting, cost discipline, and margin control. It serves as the principal financial business partner to the Purge Rite General Manager. The role leads a function of approximately 20 professionals across FP&A, accounting, project accounting (including accounts receivable), accounts payable, and payroll. Direct reports include the Controller, Accounting Manager, Project Accounting Manager, and Senior FP&A Analyst. The role focuses on implementing processes as the business scales and integrates into Vertiv systems and standards. The position oversees financial planning and analysis; close, general ledger, financial statements, and controllership; project accounting and order-to-cash; accounts payable, payroll, and transactional operations; tax, audit, and compliance; parent-company reporting and post-acquisition integration; cross-functional business partnering; team leadership and development; and ERP and systems integration. The successful candidate is expected to embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles and Behaviors and support its strategic priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
10 or more years of progressive finance and accounting experience spanning FP&A and controllership or accounting operations.
At least 5 years of people-leadership experience, including leading other managers.
Experience owning a complete close cycle and full set of financial statements, including the balance sheet, for a company or business unit.
Experience in a project-based, services, engineering, or construction environment, including project accounting and percentage-of-completion or milestone billing.
Experience owning forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, capital expenditures, fixed-asset accounting, and margin or profitability analysis.
Experience owning order-to-cash and procure-to-pay end to end, including project setup, cost control, customer invoicing, collections, accounts payable, and payroll oversight.
Experience managing external audits and coordinating income-tax provision, sales and use tax, and property tax with outside advisors.
Experience in a subsidiary, division, or carve-out reporting to a larger parent, including intercompany accounting, consolidation reporting, and systems and policy integration.
Strong working command of US GAAP as it applies to project-based revenue, accruals and reserves, and fixed assets.
Strong command of financial modeling, variable-cost margin analysis, and management reporting.
Proficiency with ERP systems such as Oracle or NetSuite and advanced Excel.
Excellent business-partnering, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage business leaders and cross-functional teams.
High attention to detail, a strong controls mindset, and the ability to safeguard project-financial accuracy.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, post-acquisition integration environment.
Comfort operating at both strategic and transaction-detail levels.
Legally authorized to work in the United States; the employer will not provide work-authorization sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

CPA strongly preferred.
MBA or CMA is a plus.
Experience in a public-company or SOX environment preferred.
Experience with BI and reporting tools.
Experience with ERP implementation or migration.
Experience scaling a finance organization through rapid growth.

Responsibilities

Own Purge Rite’s FP&A activities, including monthly and annual forecasting and operating-plan preparation, financial results reviews, variance analysis, and recommendations to achieve financial targets.
Control and forecast capital expenditures, evaluate requests, and support capital investment decisions for service equipment.
Track productivity metrics and identify efficiency opportunities and savings initiatives.
Lead profitability analysis, particularly variable-cost margins, and provide visibility into service-line and project profitability drivers.
Develop management reporting, KPIs, and dashboards; maintain analytical tools for pricing and bid support, equipment utilization, fleet economics, service-line profitability, margin analysis, and growth scenarios.
Own cash-flow forecasting and working-capital planning, including receivables, payables, capital-spend timing, and coordination of funding requirements with the parent company.
Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, general ledger, journal-entry review, account reconciliations, balance-sheet integrity, and supporting documentation on the parent company’s reporting calendar.
Apply US GAAP to project revenue recognition, accruals and reserves, leases, fixed assets, and purchase-accounting matters related to potential M&A activities.
Own fixed-asset accounting for the service equipment fleet, including capitalization, depreciation, disposals, and physical verification.
Maintain and strengthen internal controls, including SOX-aligned controls, segregation of duties, and approval thresholds; document accounting practices to support repeatable, explainable, and auditable results.
Oversee project setup and approval, project cost allocation and correction of mischarges, customer invoicing, applicable pay applications and lien waivers, and project onboarding and reporting requirements.
Manage collections, accounts receivable aging, DSO performance and targets, at-risk balance escalation, and customer credit decisions.
Monitor project costs, margins, and profitability over the project lifecycle, working with Project Management and Field Operations to identify risks and opportunities.
Own project revenue and work-in-progress integrity, applying percentage-of-completion or other appropriate GAAP treatment, including intercompany revenue, and ensuring costs and revenue are recorded in the correct period.
Ensure scope changes, change orders, and contract billing terms are reflected in project financials and billed appropriately.
Oversee vendor setup and validation, invoice processing and coding, payment runs, and vendor escalations.
Oversee payroll processing and accounting for a large field workforce, including overtime, per diem, and multi-state considerations, in partnership with HR and external providers.
Own corporate card, travel, and expense programs, including policy, compliance, and reporting; manage cash positioning and disbursements and coordinate funding with the parent company.
Standardize and automate transactional processes so finance-function costs do not scale with transaction volume.
Lead the external audit, serve as the primary contact, manage the request list, and deliver schedules and support on time.
Coordinate income-tax provision and compliance with the parent company’s tax function and external advisors, including ASC 740 support; own indirect and local tax compliance, including sales and use tax, property tax, and state and local registrations and filings.
Oversee finance-side business compliance supporting field operations, including licensing, certificates of insurance, and customer compliance documentation.
Deliver monthly and quarterly reporting packages to the parent company, including results, forecasts, variance commentary, and supporting schedules; own intercompany accounting and reconciliations and provide consolidation inputs.
Lead the finance and accounting workstream of post-acquisition integration, including chart-of-accounts mapping, ERP migration, policy alignment, and adoption of parent reporting standards and controls.
Translate the project-based service business into the parent company’s reporting framework while preserving operational detail.
Partner with the Purge Rite General Manager and leadership on operational and commercial decisions; provide financial input on pricing, bids, contract and payment terms, and customer credit.
Provide operations leadership with cost visibility at field-labor, equipment, and project levels; support fleet deployment, maintenance, and capital-investment decisions.
Partner with operations, sales, project management, HR, and IT to align financial and operational performance, plan headcount, support payroll accuracy and labor-cost reporting, and maintain finance systems, data integrity, and reporting infrastructure.
Lead, coach, and develop approximately 20 professionals across FP&A, accounting, project accounting, accounts payable, and payroll, including managers who lead teams.
Manage external finance resources and related spending, including outsourced providers, contract staffing, and professional-services firms, against defined scope, cost, and quality expectations.
Set goals and priorities, manage performance, and build a high-performing, accountable, collaborative finance team with succession depth and cross-training.
Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and automation across FP&A and project-administration processes, especially during integration into Vertiv systems and standards.
Ensure ERP financial information is reliable as the source of truth and partner on integration into the parent company’s ERP and related systems, including payroll and project-information systems.