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Jacobs has a fantastic opportunity for a motivated, financially and technically savvy leader to join our Buildings & Infrastructure Americas business as Finance Senior Manager. You will provide strategic insights and support to drive business performance and achieve financial objectives in a fast-growing business unit.

You’ll be a finance partner to a Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Operations for a geography within the Buildings & Infrastructure Americas Business Unit. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the success of annual business planning, quarterly forecasting, along with timely and accurate weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reports and analysis, financial presentation preparation and ad-hoc analysis for your leadership team. You’ll highlight business trends, develop KPI’s and provide insights to help drive improvement in financial metrics. More than financial leadership, you will be a true strategic partner to your stakeholders. Stakeholder management, being a true strategic partner and ability to synthesize and effectively communicate key aspects to the Americas leadership team will be key.

You will prepare detailed financial models, ad hoc analysis and forecasts to support data-driven decisions and long-term planning, moving further towards predictive modelling. Part of your role will be to develop and implement an improvement plan to standardize, simplify and where possible automate key processes consistently with Jacobs’s tools and processes to make better use of our existing tools and drive next stage improvements.

This position can be aligned to any Jacobs office based in the US but Dallas, Texas is the preferred location.

Here’s what you will be doing:

Financial Reporting, Budgeting & Forecasting

* Deliver timely, relevant and accurate weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial analysis/data to Finance Stakeholders and relevant Operations partners.

* Accountable to ensure accuracy of revenue recognition, cost accruals and overhead charges in finalizing the P&L of each business unit on a monthly basis.

* Responsible for driving and owning the collaboration effort for the quarterly forecast and annual budget. This includes challenging the proposed targets, suggesting performance improvements, and implementing corrective actions to recover when required.

* Accountable for owning and approving final version and delivering on time forecast submissions, backlog, hit list, budget/forecast slide deck and any necessary backup for business units.

Finance Business Partnering

* Work with Senior Vice Presidents, Head of Operations and Senior Stakeholders to give insight on the business trends, KPI’s and Plan, challenging and influencing the team to help drive improvements

* Focus on profit improvement and performance enhancement through the implementation of new initiatives

* Work with business partners to improve the DSO of a business unit, and provide operations and finance with executive level analysis of position, trending,

* Ensure that all Projects are reported in line with best practices and that Revenues and Margin are reported in accordance with Company Policy

* Ensure project risks and opportunities are clearly identified and escalated

* Management and engagement in ad hoc items as they arise

* Implement KPI’s that measure operational excellence alongside the delivery of financial objectives and identify and implement corrective action requirements

* Attend and interact in business unit management meetings and monthly PAR and provide feedback to Controller.

* Collaborate with Peers on standardizing processes and procedures and provide cover to other Finance Managers during absence periods.

* Work with Sales partners as required to ensure financial risks are identified in bids and proposals and escalate to Controller as necessary

Corporate Governance

* Provide accurate and on time information to internal and external auditors or obtain answers to provide to a facilitator who works directly with said parties.

* Ensure risks are identified and escalated as appropriate through the organization

* Ensure best practice is maintained and implemented where required, in line with company requirements, audit requirements, SOX and IFRS

* Be aware of and adhere to any regulatory requirements and keep abreast of any new developments

* Ensure business is knowledgeable in its compliance responsibilities in AP, AR, PA.

* Significant experience in operational finance within a complex, global professional services organization. Experience in the Buildings or Infrastructure engineering sector is an advantage

* Strong financial analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret and articulate insight to non-financial team members

* Proven track record of driving systematic change to modernize finance tools in large organization helping finance in the journey to move from data to predictive insights

* Strategic thinking combined with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to project manage multiple initiatives

* Strong communication and presentation skills, with the gravitas and ability to convey complex financial information clearly and effectively to a non-financial audience.

* Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of teamwork and shared success.

* Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

* Proactive and self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality financial analysis and insights.

* Effectively handle change and work in a fast-paced environment to meet tight deadlines

* Demonstrated passion for inspirational and inclusive leadership along with proven leadership capability and skills

* Proven track record of providing executive and senior management support and working with outside advisors

* Expert-level analytical and problem-solving skills; must be able to proactively engage financial data to make recommendations

* Experience with Hyperion Financial Management and Oracle Planning, or similar

* Experience with Automation and ERP implementation processes will be a plus

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.