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Are you a strategic-minded financial business partner?

Are you a natural relationship builder and confident in your professional skills to help a business unit achieve success?

Do you know the intricacies of the architecture, engineering and construction business?

We're seeking a Regional Accounting Director who will be the dedicated financial leader for our South Central Region. The South Central Region of HDR employs approximately 1,000 professional staff ranging from architects, engineers, scientists, economists and construction staff. The geography covered for this role includes Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

This role has financial accountability for the established region. This individual serves as the key advocate for all financial professionals within the region and is the business partner to senior operational leadership within the Region to align the daily transactional and big picture strategic financial needs to the operation.

More specific duties include:

• Supervise activities of Operations Accountants and Assistant Regional Accounting Director within the Region.
• Organize and direct core accounting activities for both the operations accounting function of multiple geographic offices, but also all project-financial activities.
• Oversight of the following processes: revenue recognition; project accounting; billing and accounts receivable; ensure effective communication between Project Managers and clients to resolve billing and accounts receivable issues; special projects as determined by executive financial leadership and operational management teams within the region.
• Participate in critical project reviews within SC Region areas of operation
• Conduct quarterly business reviews, which consists of analyzing the financial aspects and KPIs of every project within assigned operations Areas alongside the respective Operations Managers, Project Managers and Project Accountants
• Assist operations leadership with mid-year and end of year financial forecasts & projections of the SC Region
• Assist operations leadership with the production and compilation of annual operating budgets

Professional development of finance and accounting management and staff within the Region:

• Ensure training and proper usage of HDR's financial systems, ERP business systems & PowerBI reporting suite.
• Provide assurance to accounting and business leadership that practices and procedures are being followed in accordance with HDR policies, HDR business standards and best practices, accounting principles, contractual client obligations and government compliance standards
• Routine participation in Regional leadership meetings to provide financial status reports and financial analysis on performance, forecast and trends.
• Assume a lead role for administering recruiting and hiring decisions within the Region related to finance and accounting personnel.
• Responsible for financial analyses and presentations; detailed management reports and executing internal control procedures to improve performance as a key business partner with operations leadership.
• Expected 20-50% travel required. May be more the first year of the position to facilitate relationship building and learning the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal contracting and merger/acquisition experience highly desirable.
• Strong preference to candidates with demonstrated accounting/financial leadership within the architecture, engineering or construction industry.
• FAR/CAS compliance experience beneficial.
• Project-based ERP system experience (Oracle EBS or comparable) preferred.
• Professional certifications including CPA or CMA are highly desirable.