Finance Director Planning, Systems & Performance

Company Description

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Position Purpose:

Reporting to the CFO of Veolia Municipal Services, the Finance Director - Planning, Systems and Performance is responsible for overseeing the FP&A process, ensuring the accuracy of actual reporting for Corporate, challenging profitability across Regions and overseeing the maintenance and development of adequate systems, in coordination with VNA (FP&A, SSC and DB&T).

This role provides leadership, strategy, and day-to-day management for the finance function, including overall responsibility for financial planning and analysis, financial modeling, management reporting, forecasting and budgeting. This position is responsible for the consolidated reporting and financial analysis of four business units and ensures that operational decisions result in optimal financial outcomes, address Veolia NA’s core values and consider the proper rate perspective.

Revenue $1.063 MIL EBITDA $88 MIL

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

The main expectations of the position are:

• Animating the closing and forecast processes to ensure reliability and consistency of financial data and helping building a strong and close-knit finance community across Municipal Services.
• Structuring relevant analyses and dashboards to monitor financial performance and help solidify the improving profitability trend.
• Participating in various approaches (performance / pricing) to secure financial soundness and de-risk our operations.
• Contributing to fixing the processes/technical issues Municipal Services faces in terms of financial close and forecast phases. Optimizing process and helping deliver on Finance Transformation projects.

Main missions of the function are:

Budget, forecast and monthly reporting

• Coordinate and prepare the annual budget and forecast cycle (processes and templates) for Municipal Services, including occasional presentation to Municipal Services senior management.
• Support Municipal Services month-end closing process by coordinating with the SSC and the Regional CFOs and their Financial Analysts and ensure on-time reporting and data quality.
• Support the CFO in preparing the monthly management reporting for the Municipal Services Leadership Team and the monthly business reviews and forecast / budget presentations.
• Set up CAPEX monitoring (budgeted capex / capex requests) and control.
• Set up working capital and DSO monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, laws and guidelines.

Performance analyses

• Develop and produce relevant monthly and ad-hoc analytical reviews within the BU and across VNA, in order to monitor our financial performance. Recognize patterns in company spending, revenue, CAPEX, cash profile and recommend solutions to any problem areas.
• Participate in the diagnosis, implementation and monitoring of performance projects:
  • Contribute to performance initiatives (e.g. Cure / Kill projects, Whale analysis, Moby projects).
  • Lead the Global Efficiency Program programs across Municipal Services and take actions where necessary in coordination with the Regional CFOs to ensure savings targets are met. Ensure financial reporting of efficiency / synergies programs for the BU.
• Participate in the pricing approach led by DS&I to ensure relevance of operational costs vs. overheads in our commercial offers.
• Manage the monitoring of corporate expenses (actuals vs. budget):
  • Oversee accounting operations and preparing monthly financial statements for Corporate.
  • Work with Department Heads to develop Corporate budgets and challenge their assumptions as needed that meet the requirements of corporate departments.
  • Supervise audit and internal control processes related to Corporate.

Processes

• Support the CFO in ensuring that policies and procedures are applied consistently across Municipal Services regarding key processes such as Cash Collection, Unbilled report, Revenue reconciliation (limit reports, pass through reports).
• Ensure the reliability and consistency of financial data and ensure consistent financial processes across the BU. Alert the CFO of malfunctions. Contribute fixing issues faced in terms of financial close and forecast phase and ensuring smoother processes.

Systems

• Ensure the adequacy of our various systems (S4, SAC, HubGrade), propose improvements and optimize systems integration in order to minimize manual work.
• Ensure our analytical hierarchy and management control rules relevantly reflect our financial performance.
• Participate in the development of automated dashboard (like the Operation Command Center) based on the Datalake and if needed with the support of AI.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background:

• Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• 10+ years’ financial management experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Able to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent computer skills.
• Strong knowledge of project-based accounting software.
• Impeccable mathematics and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• An analytical mind with good organizational skills.
• Outstanding leadership skills.

Required Certification/Licenses/Training:

• CPA, preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Travel within Municipal Services operations as needed, as well as to the head office in Boston.

Additional Information

Pay Range: $129375 to $161690 Per Year.

Benefits: Our employees are covered by comprehensive benefits packages including paid time off policies; health, dental, vision, and life insurance; retirement plans, savings accounts; tuition reimbursement; paid volunteering and more.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.