Finance Manager - Onsite - Toms River, NJ
Company: Veolia North America
Location: Toms River
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
Company DescriptionAbout Veolia North AmericaA 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 DescriptionBENEFITSVeolia'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.
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- 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.QualificationsEducation/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 InformationWe 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.
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