Senior Finance Manager

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Lead an engaged and motivated US Pharma Business Unit (BU) to partner with and support leadership in understanding their business through effective challenge and by providing insightful and accurate management information that will help improve business performance as well as accuracy of reporting. Provide effective financial management & control for the business unit.

The BU Controller reports directly to the BA Controller.

Role accountabilities:

Act as a business partner to support the BU Director and BA Controller for decision making

• Be a forward looking, proactive Finance partner providing insightful advice and challenge to the business in all areas of performance
• Lead the development and completion of the financial plans and forecasts
• Track and report the financial performance of the BU ensuring integrity is maintained in all governance and compliance areas
• Provide insightful analysis on business performance and trends with a forward-looking lens and driving action as required across the business
• Coordinate and assess the quality of capex / investment proposals from the business in country
• Drive Working Capital performance to exceed targets
• Be an active participant and contributor in the sale and bid processes assisting the leadership to drive profitable growth
• Be a champion for change

Lead the Finance function: 

• Report financial KPIs, project and P&L performance management reporting and analysis (profitability, net working capital and cashflow) accurately and transparently, enabling effective decision making for Project Managers and Functional Management
• Coordinate the BU budget, develop outlook & forecast capabilities and develop mitigation plan to support target achievements.
• Lead and develop the BU finance team (where appropriate) to deliver value adding services
• Ensure a high level of collaboration and coordination is maintained with the other BU Controllers and the Accounting pillar to ensure consistency in service delivery and compliance including meeting all the financial statutory obligations

Interact with global finance team:

• Contribute to the global Finance strategy with active involvement in the advancement of standardized, centralized and automated process across the entire function 
• Roll out the processes and methods designed centrally in the Business Area (BA)
• Ensure standardization within the Global Business Area (GBA) and with other GBA’s avoiding customization of systems and processes.
• Ensure maximum use of and alignment to the Global Shared Service Centre (GSSC) Finance teams 
• Ensure a high level of collaboration is maintained with the wider GBA Finance team including other BU Controllers across all GBA’s, Centers of Excellence, FP&A and Group Control.

Key shared responsibilities:

• Support the BA Controller to implement a finance strategy focused on maximizing shareholder value associated with the GBA; encompassing all value creation levers (e.g. capital allocation, capital structure, portfolio strategy, governance) with effective communication to internal & external stakeholders
• Support the Finance Transformation team in identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline finance support and remove overhead via the Global Shared Service Centre, standardization and automation.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant bachelor or master's degree and preferably 10+ years of experience in finance
• Fluent in English.
• Track record of being a business partner and understanding client needs and financially controlling complex projects
• Managing change: supporting change in programs or teams and driving standardization and automation
• Management: showing skills to help manage a BU, supporting strategy and successfully driving accountability through KPIs and behavior
• Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies
• Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek candidates with a strong fit to our values, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability
• Strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion
• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset
• Digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative
• Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation
• Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict
• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals
• Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on
• Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions
• Personal role model own commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core
• Maintain personal resilience and rebound from setbacks and help others to do the same
• Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions.

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. 

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $113,933 - $163,304. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.