Job description
Join us in creating a sustainable future and becoming a protector of tomorrow!
Covanta South Region is hiring a Sr. Director FPA & Commercial Finance - Come Join Us in Protecting Tomorrow
What Covanta Offers You:
Highlights of Covanta’s Competitive Total Rewards package:
- A competitive base salary
- Performance based Annual Incentive Plan
- Day 1 – Health Care Benefits, includes dental and vision
- Wellness Program Incentives & Rewards
- Retirement Savings Plan and 401K with Company match
- Paid Time Off (Vacation & Holiday)
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
ABOUT COVANTA:
At Covanta, the work we do is more than just a job. It’s a commitment to environmental problem-solving and sustainable progress. We do all that we can to safeguard the future of our people, our planet and our shared prosperity. We are a world leader in providing sustainable waste and energy solutions. Our modern Waste-to-Energy and material processing facilities provide municipalities and businesses sustainable alternatives to landfill disposal that help build a circular economy and use waste to generate clean, renewable electricity. Building a safer, smarter world is no simple task, but it is something we can achieve together. Join us in protecting tomorrow.
This is a key role within the Finance Organization Reporting to the Regional Vice President, South Region, The Senior Director, FP&A and Commercial Finance has responsibility for leading the FP&A Function for Covanta US South Region. The role involves providing financial planning and decision support to the Regional Vice President, the Regional President, and Vice President of Commercial Operations to drive organic and inorganic profitable revenue for more than $0.6M~ with EBITDA of 20%. The South Region is comprised of 16 facilities: 3 owned WTE, 9 clients owned WTE, 3 MPF and 1 transfer station.
In addition, this position provide business partnering support to the Regional Senior Management Team.
The Sr Director of FP&A and Commercial Finance, oversees all FP&A process around the region and has direct responsibility to drive management reporting process, annual budget plan, forecasting, outlooks (weekly pulse), Long Range Plan (LRP) and business-related analytics to provide insightful business decision support and analysis on performance trends and makes recommendations for operating performance improvements or risk mitigation to drive growth in both revenue and EBITDA.
The Sr. Director will provide financial leadership to prepare executive level presentations related to financial performance, business and commercial expansion, M&A, special projects, and scenario planning including detail modeling and projections. This position has supervisory responsibility for one Finance Manager.
- Partner with Sr Director (South Regional Controller) and Corporate FP&A team to ensure timely, accurate and insightful financial analysis that allow to monitor business KPIs and enable effective decision making.
- Provides strategic financial support in setting strategic objectives as well as in delivering monthly, quarterly, and annual financial targets.
- Support the Vice President of Finance - South in ensuring systems and processes are in place to support Region’s ability to forecast and budget to meet internal business needs as well as corporate planning requirements including:
- Coordinate FP&A activities to ensure planning timelines and processes are understood.
- Key liaison with Corporate Finance to ensure corporate submissions are met on a timely basis.
- Support the preparation of presentations and analysis for all plans to be presented by the Region to Corporate.
- Ensure that supporting data and analysis is relevant and accurate.
- Drive continuous improvement culture and streamline FP&A processes, implementing value-add FP&A analysis and related projects, Kaizen, automations, and leadership standard work.
- Integrates financial planning processes with cash flow planning, revenue, and pricing opportunities.
- Raise the capabilities of Regional FP&A to become a trusted/value added business partner.
- Drives the annual budget and monthly forecast processes, ensuring that deliverables are reasonably predictive of future results. Keeps financial and operational management appraised of current business trends relative to budget and forecast. Formulates recommendations for course correction as required.
- Drive and ensure linkage between investment allocations and EBITDA. Constant resource allocation review expected to maximize ROI.
- Deliver expense analytics to support cost management allocation / reduction and to promote ways to improve forecast accuracy and budget clarity.
- Partner with regional leaders in forecasting and analyzing regional overhead cost.
- Responsible for coordinating and preparing full P&L modelling (revenue and EBITDA) for new project initiatives, facility expansion, contract extensions, M&A, scenario planning and detail modeling related to the South Region; Perform ad hoc analysis to support special profitability projects.
- Fosters a culture of strong internal control, compliance, financial discipline, and business integrity.
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance, Administration, Economics, Engineering or related field, MBA or CPA.
- 15 Years or equivalent experience in Finance Commercial Finance, Regional Finance FP&A, Center of Expertise (COE), Finance Operations, Cash Flow, M&A, project modeling and scenario planning.
- Direct report to Regional Vice President in positions supporting a regional organization.
- Other Experiences: International Experience, turns arounds (Business units, product P&L, cashflow), resource allocation, cost reduction, project implementation, process improvement and standardization.
- Accountability, Collaboration, eager to learn, drive by results, manage ambiguity, self-management, self-motivated, critical thinking, and strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with ability to understand the impact of changes in business operations on financials and investigate corrective action.
- Ability to balance broad strategic objectives with the ability to execute day-to-day tactical operations.
- Strong change management skills, ability to lead through change.
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills and ability to build a strong network across the organization.
- Ability to deal effectively with all levels of operating and financial management within a Fortune 500 corporate environment.
- Team oriented leader with the ability to develop talent in a high performance and dynamic organization.
- Ability to recognize key issues and effectively communicate those to management.
- Ability to work with a range of functionally diverse peoples, influencing them to get things done, and delivering value added business results that meet high quality requirements within deadlines.
- Strong knowledge on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): JDEdwards EnterpriseOne (Oracle), SAP, Cognos, Hyperion, CAFE, Tableau BI, SmartView.
Covanta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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