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About The Position

Requirements

• Finance and accounting experience in a heavy-duty industrial sales and service business, with multiple-locations in multiple states, some limited international exposure.
• Experience with job-cost accounting, including percentage of completion accounting.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and change management.
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems, ideally deep experience with Great Plains.
• Knowledge of federal and state financial regulations (Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, and New Mexico).
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections.
• Strong professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects.
• Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule and demonstrated ability to work stress resistant even under ongoing requirements of fulfilling critical deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and implement programs to reduce working capital for a similarly-sized business.
• Ability to influence and participate as part of the division management team and to serve as an innovative sounding board for other members of the team.
• Demonstrated strong analytical capability to understand the inter-relationships between sales, operating and cost data, and balance sheet to identify operational problems, and to analyze variances from planned results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork, highly adaptive.
• Integrity; committee to the highest ethical standards.
• Will to drive change even in cases being faced with obstacles.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum of ten years of experience in a senior-level finance position; minimum of five years experience working within a business that sells and services heavy-duty industrial or similar equipment and with locations across multiple states required.

Nice To Haves

• MS or MBA strongly preferred
• CPA/CMA strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Create, coordinate, and evaluate the financial and business programs and supporting information systems of the division including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, project management, and management of assets.
• Provide the Division President accurate and complete information needed to understand and manage business performance in a timely manner.
• In conjunction with the business and IT leadership, review, recommend, and coordinate changes and improvements in automated financial and business information systems for the division.
• Establish and maintain appropriate internal control safeguards.
• Manage the financial team in the processing of a broad variety of transactions ranging from small, rapid, daily invoicing to large, multi-million dollar projects requiring POC accounting.
• Recruit, develop & leverage financial expertise to deliver continuous improvement in terms of finance process efficiency & effectiveness, controls environment, sales, profit & operating margin.
• In conjunction with the Division President, develop and direct the implementation of strategic business and/or operational plans, projects, programs, and systems.
• Maintain close contact with the Division President and local operation leaders to assist with financial expertise and communicate requirements.
• Ensure that working capital, cash, productivity, quality measures and defined KPI’s are adequately reported and controlled to achieve plan levels and in accordance with division requirements. Implement a process of performance improvement metrics in all businesses.
• Interact with other managers to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with local and state financial, tax, etc. reporting requirements.
• Coordinate the timely preparation of financial statements, financial reports, special analyses, and information reports. Ensure accurate, timely reporting of division financial information – budgets, forecasts, monthly results and flash reports. Identify key issues and propose actions thereon to meet division objectives.
• Establish and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures and establish forecast measures that provide business insights to the business leadership.
• Oversee the approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, and position control documents, department budgets, salary updates, ledger, and account maintenance and data entry.
• Ensure records systems are maintained in accordance with generally accepted standards and tax requirements.
• Assist in obtaining the necessary licenses and insurance required to operate a sales and service business.
• Serve as a backup to the Division President during staff and operations meetings, etc.
• Support CFO with financial expertise and project leadership.
• Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate department staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, maternity support program, discounted virtual physician visits, voluntary medical benefits (Critical Illness, Hospital Care, and Accidental Injury), FSA, HSA, life insurance, short term and long-term disability
• Cash matching 401(k) plan
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Pet insurance
• Employee discount program
• Tuition assistance
• Paid time off and 11 paid holidays
• Full relocation assistance provided