Finance Manager

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. Our functional services teams (FSTs) provide services to 26,000 employees in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger. Explore opportunities in Financial Services.

Your Opportunity

As Finance Manager, you will be a key member of the Financial Services team and a Business Partner to operations. You will bring financial expertise, along with a strong commercial and operating mindset to the pertinent Business Line with whom you partner. You should have strong collaboration, communication, leadership and organizational skills. To be successful, you will be an operationally and commercially minded finance and accounting professional with extensive experience in a professional services (ideally engineering consulting) environment. A proactive mindset, and ability to communicate clearly and frequently across all levels of the company are essential. You will be strategic, change orientated, innovative, and always seeking to improve. You will be someone who will thrive in a dynamic and fast paced environment, working with high energy and resilience. This is a unique opportunity to play a key leadership role in driving change and delivering continued profitable growth of the company.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Act as a finance business partner to Operations Leadership including Regional Leaders (RLs) and Business Center Operations Leaders (BCOLs) and be an active member of the operating management team. Also provide ongoing financial support to Project Managers and Project Controllers
• Coordinate and manage all aspects of financial operations for the Business Centers, including Financial Statement Review & Analysis, Reconciliations, Days Sales Outstanding, WIP and Billings Management.
• Prepare Monthly, Quarterly and YTD Executive Summaries for leaders to assist them in making sound strategic and operational decisions, including concise commentaries and variance analysis on operating financial performance.
• Facilitate and coordinate the preparation of financial plans, annual budgets, and quarterly forecasts, working closely with operations.
• Develop price and costing models and strategies to support operations on large and complex project bids, including those with KPI bonuses and joint ventures/arrangements.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, practices, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensure key controls for financial reporting related to Stantec’s SOX and internal control program are effective and operational.
• Collaborate with Project Accountants (PAs) and assist with coordination of their monthly project review cycle; also work with PAs to analyze project financial performance to identify challenges and solutions
• Coordinate with other Financial Mangers and Controllers across the business to plan and implement continuous business process improvements and best practices.
• Maintain a strong understanding of key contractual agreements with clients.
• Work collaboratively with both internal and external auditors.
• Provide support as required on potential new acquisitions and integration of project financial data.