Finance Manager - Toms River, NJ, United States - Veolia North America

Description

About Veolia North America

A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) 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. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website

Job Description

BENEFITS

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

Position Purpose:

This position leads and manages the financial responsibilities for the Division by directing the preparation, consolidation, and presentation of financial planning processes (Budget, reforecasts, medium term plan, monthly variance analysis) at the Division level. This position reports to the Director of Finance and supports the Division General Manager (GM) and Sr. Director of Operations Mid State in strategic decision making through the monitoring of business financial performance indicators, risks & opportunities as well as through participation in rate filings and CAPEX allocations. This position acts as the main interlocutor within the Division to centralized functions such as Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and IT. This position is a key contributor to defining and implementing change management initiatives.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead Financial planning processes (Budget, reforecasts, medium term plan).
  • Prepare and organize each process with the different BUs and departments involved.
  • Discuss and challenge operational and financial assumptions in liaison with the Division GM, Director of Finance, and Mid-State Sr Director of Operations.
  • Consolidate information and ensure timely upload and sharing with the segment.
  • Support the NJ Leadership in presenting results to the Segment President and Segment CFO.
    
    
• Analyze and synthetize monthly variance analysis of financial and operational performance.
  • Monitor operational objectives and metrics that drive the financial performance of the division.
  • communicate financial results, goals, and objectives within their division.
  • Approve ALL invoices and requisitions up to $50k in the PSFT system for So. Jersey Region, ensuring proper backup & signoffs are present along with valid coding. Approve any subsequent change orders as necessary.
  • Manage the bi-weekly payroll entry, receipt ticket entry, and inventory issuance completed by Fin Rep, and work with Corp AP & Procurement with any elevated issues.
  • Approve check deposits for developer projects and miscellaneous income items (fire flow testing, scrap metal, quarterly DOW invoices, etc.).
  • Oversee the month-end accruals process for items such as the ImageNow invoices, chemicals, & sludge (TR&MX).
  • Coordinate with Corp Finance and local Production Dept on Unbilled Revenue projections.
  • Analyze the monthly variances to the annual budgets and report/present with explanations to Corp Finance in monthly meeting.
  • Create/Forward any correcting JE's to Corp Acctng discovered during the review process.
  • Update Corp Finance's stats files, including energy, employee count, and OT information.
  • Analyze inventory levels for standard inventory and chemicals for anomalies, and report back to Ops if any counts are necessary.
  • Coordinate and assist with monthly KPI presentation for Operations to NJ management.
  • Manage the monthly Rate Case Prep files created by Fin Rep.
    
    
• Complete the following tasks annually or ad-hoc as needed:
  • Year-end close vs budget and V3 projections for Corp Finance- more controlled, and a more-detailed analysis than a typical month-end.
  • Complete the annual payroll bonus coding file to ensure accurate cost allocation.
  • Complete multiple year-end requests from Corp Acctng for bonus accruals, leases, inventory counts, purchase water accruals, etc.
  • Analyze and approve the year-end payroll reports so that Corp P/R may produce the W2's for Toms River and Matchaponix.
  • Approve annual AP templates and recurring payments with Fin Rep.
  • Assists So Jersey Region with gathering of information to complete the annual BPU Report.
  • Perform the annual true-up DOW/UC Incremental Costs and present invoice to Corp Acctng for processing.
  • Liaise with landlord to calculate lease payments for office and warehouse facilities, and updates payments annually based on new property taxes, annual contract increase, and/or newly acquired warehouse space.
  • Assist Corp HR with calculating the annual union increase for Toms River and compute any payroll adjustments due to processing errors.
  • Review and approve the quarterly invoices presented to DOW/UC for accuracy and ensure payment is received from a third-party consultant.
  • Coordinate with Production Dept and Corp Acctng to ensure monthly accrual files are updated with most-recent information and accruals are accurate.
  • Work with Engineering and Finance Rep to complete the Developer Refunds process for developer-funded projects.
  • Create/Update supplemental reports to be used by local management such as Dept Coding Blocks, Report of Open PO's & Blankets, Vendor Payments, etc.
  • Liaison between local management, corporate depts., and outside parties for items such as PCards, local P/R issues, vendor issues, etc.
• Support the GM, Director of Finance, and Mid-State Sr Director of Operations in the decision-making process.
  • by providing ad-hoc analysis, studies and by anticipating possible development of risks and opportunities.
  • by providing long term strategic thinking, including rate filing options and CAPEX programs.
  • by analyzing new business projects, determining whether there is a growth opportunity or a major capital expenditure and whether or not the spending is viable and cost efficient.
• Act as a leader within the division.
  • by ensuring that the information generated by other departments in the division is accurate, including but not limited to Revenue and Accounts Receivable integrity (Customer Service), Operational KPI's (Operation), CAPEX (Engineering), Headcount (HR), etc.
  • by being the gatekeeper to make sure that company policies are enforced, and controls are in place.
  • by being a change agent in making policy recommendations and by rolling out new business practices, organization and tools deployed by the company.
  • by coordinating the preparation of the reporting to the regulatory commission.
• Act as prime liaison between the Division and the Segment as well as Corporate with regard to providing to or controlling information from the following departments:
  • Rates Department, especially when there is a rate filing.
  • Accounting, Tax, Treasury, with regard to the production of financial statements.
  • Procurement, IT.
  • Internal Audit and External Audit.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required.
• MBA preferred.
• 8 years of progressive experience in Finance/Accounting.
• Prior utility industry experience desired.
• Significant achievements in analyzing complex financial issues.
• Strong experience of working in process-oriented functions.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that translate to operational effectiveness.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact with all levels of management.
• Exceptional leadership abilities, including the ability to influence actions in other departments.
• High sense of urgency and ability to work under strict deadline pressures. Ability to identify creative solutions to time sensitive problems by balancing achievement of objectives with practical considerations.
• Proficient with Google/Microsoft Office Suite. Peoplesoft knowledge highly desirable.
• Integrity, reliability, and autonomy.
• Hyperion (Budgeting).
• Customer Care & Billing (CC&B).

Additional Information

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.