Description
WSP is seeking a Finance Manager on our Tolling Operations Team based in Concord, NH.
The Finance Manager will organize and direct all general accounting and financial activities for the client's project, ensuring compliance with project financial accounting, reconciliation, auditing, and reporting requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and maintain accounting standard operating procedures, internal controls, and financial management processes and systems.
- Ensure compliance with project-specific financial accounting, reconciliation, auditing, and reporting requirements.
- Serve as the dedicated financial lead for the project, maintaining oversight of financial controls, reporting processes, and audit-readiness activities.
- Direct, monitor, and evaluate accounting activities, processes, systems, procedures, and staff performance.
- Oversee weekly accounts payable activities and customer refunds.
- Oversee the preparation of daily and monthly journal entries, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and analysis, and daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliations.
- Manage financial systems, accounting operations, auditing activities, and financial reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Evaluate back-office operating and financial software to improve efficiency, controls, processes, or system functionality.
- Ensure daily and monthly key performance measures are successfully achieved.
- Participate in internal project meetings and client meetings, interfacing with the client, subcontractors, vendors, and internal and external auditors.
- Oversee internal audits, including monthly physical inventory audits and cash-control reviews, and support external audits.
- Monitor developments in the accounting profession and translate operational issues into financial risk assessments and recommend controls or corrective actions.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Provide overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of accounting and finance teams.
- Provide financial leadership and oversight for project accounting functions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Accounting.
- Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license required.
- Minimum of seven years of relevant work experience.
- Minimum five years of experience managing and reporting on financial systems, including auditing and accounting in accordance with GAAP.
- Minimum three years of experience developing and implementing financial management systems.
- Experience overseeing accounting operations in a GAAP-compliant, high-volume transaction environment.
- Experience with tolling back-office systems preferred.