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Senior Director of Finance
Nth Degree. Lead, coach, and grow a team of finance managers/project accountants .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in project accounting, financial management, and international team leadership, with a strong focus on revenue recognition under ASC 606 and compliance with statutory reporting requirements. Proven ability to analyze financial performance, manage budgets, and enhance client service through effective communication and collaboration.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Project Accounting LeadershipASC 606 Revenue RecognitionInternational Statutory ReportingFinancial Controls and ComplianceERP and Billing Tools Proficiency
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Hard Skills
Project BudgetingCost EstimatingChange Orders ManagementWIP ReconciliationVariance AnalysisBilling AccuracyClient Profitability AnalysisKPI ReportingAccruals ManagementFinancial Presentation Development
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipClient Relationship ManagementConflict ResolutionCollaborationCoaching and Mentoring
Tools & Technologies
ERP SystemsProject Accounting SoftwareBilling Tools
Industry Keywords
Financial LifecycleStatutory ReportingContract ComplianceAudit SupportRevenue Recognition Standards
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesERP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead, coach, and grow a team of finance managers/project accountants
- Build a client-service culture in which accountants act as trusted financial partners
- Own hiring, onboarding, training, and succession planning for the function
- Balance workloads and client assignments across the team
- Lead project accounting teams across multiple countries and time zones
- Set consistent global standards, processes, and service levels
- Manage local statutory reporting, tax, currency, and labor requirements with regional leaders
- Assign and deploy project accountants to customer accounts
- Forecast staffing needs against the sales pipeline and project calendar
- Ensure key accounts have named finance coverage and backup coverage
- Track utilization and capacity
- Oversee budgets, estimates, change orders, WIP, billing, collections, and project close-out
- Ensure accurate, documented, and timely invoicing under client contract terms
- Direct ASC 606 revenue recognition for project work
- Monitor unbilled receivables, DSO, and aging; reduce billing cycle time
- Lead month-end close, accruals, WIP reconciliations, and variance explanations
- Partner with Sales and Operations on project budgets, cost estimates, and pricing proposals
- Review and approve pricing for bids, renewals, and change orders
- Track budget-to-actual performance and flag overruns or scope changes
- Own the annual project accounting function budget
- Analyze project results to improve pricing models and estimating accuracy
- Serve as senior finance escalation point for key clients
- Participate in client meetings, business reviews, and contract negotiations
- Set standards for client financial reporting
- Partner with Sales, Account Management, and Operations on contract expectations
- Maintain internal controls over project billing, contract compliance, and revenue
- Support external audits, client audits, and compliance reviews
- Write and enforce project accounting policies, procedures, and approval workflows
- Deliver project and client profitability analysis to executive leadership
- Contribute to annual budgeting and forecasting for project revenue and cost
- Lead process improvement and system upgrades across ERP, project accounting, and billing tools
- Define and report KPIs for billing accuracy, timeliness, collections, and client satisfaction
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience leading finance managers/project accountants and international teams is required by the scope of the role
- Knowledge of project accounting and the full project financial lifecycle, including budgets, estimates, change orders, WIP, billing, collections, and project close-out
- Knowledge of revenue recognition under ASC 606, including percentage-of-completion and milestone billing
- Experience with project budgeting, cost estimating, pricing proposals, rate cards, markups, discount structures, and margin targets
- Knowledge of unbilled receivables, DSO, aging, accruals, WIP reconciliations, and variance analysis
- Knowledge of international statutory reporting, tax, currency, and labor practices
- Experience with financial controls, contract compliance, audits, policies, procedures, and approval workflows
- Experience with ERP, project accounting, and billing tools
- Ability to analyze project and client profitability and report KPIs
- Ability to build executive-level and client-facing financial presentations and resolve billing disputes
- Ability to partner with Sales, Operations, Account Management, and People & Culture
- Ability to lead hiring, onboarding, training, succession planning, process improvement, and system upgrades