Customer Finance Manager
Posted 3 days ago
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Manage all financial aspects for all locations for one customer across the country. Leads and directs the financial teams to support operations and the customer. Position will provide contract knowledge and analytical support for various processes as well as provide additional support to other functional areas. The Customer Financial Manager will have accountability for all business planning, forecasting and analysis at the customer level. They will collaborate with the dedicated customer management team and site operations leadership to integrate Finance into all strategies, activities, and decision-making processes. Interface with the customer will be on a regular basis.
**Schedule:** Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
**Location:** Reading, PA or Irving, TX
**Major Responsibilities:**
**Sales Finance**
- Articulate the value proposition to the field and to our customers by identifying the critical metrics that should be measured to determine Penske's performance.
- Provide innovative costing solutions to the field teams and customer.
- Effectively service the customer by developing/monitoring a risk/reward strategy.
**Operations Finance**
- Effectively plan and forecast business results
- Effectively analyze and interpret financial results
- Compare/track/report actual costs to the baseline
- Track impacts from scope and volume changes and inefficiencies
**Financial Decision Making**
- Lead and direct the process for identifying, specifying and developing innovative financial strategies
- Lead and direct the cost savings tracking/monitoring
- Other projects as assigned by the Director, Financial Administration
**Talent Management**
- Interview, hire and develop finance associates
- Recognize and reward associates
- Encourage associates to be up-to-date on current trends and approaches.
- Listen to associate's interests and align those with the needs of the projects.
- Guide finance analysts toward achieving customer objectives.
**Qualifications:**
- 5-7 years experience in financial analysis.
- Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting required.
- Excellent communication and people skills required
- Excellent presentation skills required
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills required
- Ability to travel up to 25% (A few days a month)
- Experience with P&L
- Experience with managing a small team (Leadership Skills)
- Must be detail oriented
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint required
- Knowledge of company systems and procedures preferred
- Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
**Physical Requirements:**
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer
**About Penske Logistics**
Penske Logistics engineers state-of-the-art transportation, warehousing and freight management solutions that deliver powerful business results for market-leading companies. With operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, Penske and its associates help businesses move forward by increasing visibility and driving down supply-chain costs. Visit Penske Logistics to learn more.
Job Category: Finance/Accounting
Job Family: Finance
Address: 100 Kachel Boulevard
Primary Location: US-PA-Reading
Employer: Penske Logistics LLC
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Director, Finance & Accounting
Posted 4 days ago
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Maximus is currently seeking a Director, Finance & Accounting . In this role, you will be responsible for performing and providing financial oversight to the business.
This is a remote position.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare financial budgeting, forecasting and reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, while performing variance analysis between forecast and actual.
- Ensure effectiveness of accuracy and timeliness of forecasting, reporting, accruals, and other financial related processes and systems on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Provide direct financial leadership and support for assessing service allocation rates, composition of cost pools for new allocations.
- Work with group and project finance teams to develop, administer, and implement process improvements and methodologies and cost allocation expectations.
Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of financial professionals to develop and implement a financial strategy that is effective, consistent and aligns with the organization's overall financial strategy.
- Responsible for oversight and maintenance of project financial records and forecasts.
- Provide strategic pricing leadership to support a new business area.
- Participate in all internal and external audits.
- Oversee the monthly and quarterly financial close process for assigned businesses.
- Coordinates with Project Management to develop operational productivity analysis and tracking of metrics to identify where cost efficiencies can be achieved.
- Reviews contract modifications, maintain financial contract files and prepares reports, documentation and presentations as appropriate.
- Ensure client invoices are compliant with MAXIMUS policy and client requirement to ensure projects are billed accurately and timely.
- Manages Direct Sales Outstanding by expediting collections and keeping unbilled as low as possible.
- Ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures as well as US GAAP, FAR, CAS and statutory regulations, acting as a champion of the company policy and procedures.
- Provide monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting for financial and business planning with Project Management and Division finance and works closely to track performance and provides timely variance and Risk and Opportunity analysis.
- Prepares routine and ad-hoc financial reports and analysis using MAXIMUS proprietary tools, Enterprise solutions, CostPoint, Cognos Reporting, and Excel
- Lead cooperative effort among members of a team.
- Provides ongoing supervision too assigned staff.
- Responsible for identifying and resolving issues, problems and concerns.
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures.
- Interacts with different levels of external and internal customers.
- Ensures the confidentiality and security of all corporate information.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related field required.
- 10-12 years of relevant professional experience required.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience in lieu of degree. Master's Degree preferred.
- Due to customer requirements, United States Citizenship is required.
-10+ years of relevant professional experience required.
- At least 5 years of experience in project accounting, financial control/management or similar discipline.
- 2-3 years management experience required.
- Must have DoD financial experience.
- Must have strategic pricing experience.
-The ability to obtain or maintain a government issued security clearance is required.
- Ability to coach, develop and mentor team members.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (strong Word and Excel skills).
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, ability to perform quantitative and qualitative analyses of existing business processes.
- Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.
- Ability to work under standards-based performance measures.
- Ability to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to work as a team member, as well as independently.
- Ability to be a self-starter.
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EEO Statement
Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.
Pay Transparency
Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at .
Minimum Salary
$
145,000.00
Maximum Salary
$
160,000.00
Financial Planning & Analysis Director
Posted 23 days ago
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Be part of something great
Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people's lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.
Role Summary
To establish and lead all financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial performance analytics activities across the UK business, ensuring alignment between strategic goals, operational delivery and financial outcomes. The role owns the design and implementation of robust FP&A processes, templates and tooling and acts as the financial pillar for enterprise level performance planning and transformation finance.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
1. Lead the UK wide budgeting, forecasting and financial planning cycles, ensuring clarity of timelines, ownership, interdependencies and assumptions in alignment with the corporation in the US.
2. Develop and own the UK FP&A reporting toolkit including templates, scenario modelling and standardised formats to drive consistency and transparency.
3. Partner with Operational finance teams to translate business performance into actionable insights, ensuring that forecasts, variance analysis and KPIs reflect operational reality.
4. Oversee the Central Services Business partnering activities, ensuring functional overheads (HR, Technology, Legal, Finance etc) are planned and managed effectively with clear accountability and challenge.
5. Lead the Service Operations Finance capability, owning business case financials, cost-to-serve modelling and transformation cost tracking to inform investment and ROI decisions.
6. Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, data flows and tooling, acting as the business lead for any future FP&A technology implementations.
7. Design and implement fit-for-purpose financial structures (e.g. cost centres, attributes, hierarchies) to support the capability based operating model, enabling tracking, planning and decision making through transformation.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
Essential
• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) or equivalent with extensive post-qualification experience in FP&A or commercial finance leadership.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise level financial planning and forecasting processes in complex, matrixed organisations.
• Strong understanding of finance transformation, cost modelling and enabling technology.
Desirable
• Experience in public sector or outsourced services organisations.
• Prior involvement in FP&A system implementation or finance target operating model design.
Individual Competencies
• Strategic Thinking and planning
• Financial Acumen
• Leadership and team development
• Change Management
• Technology and Data Orientation
• Collaboration & Influencing
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Business Partnering Mindset
Maximus Competencies
• Embraces Respect.
• Partners Effectively.
• Creates Innovative Solutions.
• Focuses on the Customer.
• Demonstrates Compassion.
• Takes Responsibility & Acts with Integrity.
Travel Requirements
•UK wide as required.
EEO Statement
Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal well-being and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post.
We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application you will find a question asking you if you would like to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for an interview. YourGuaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. Where reasonable, Maximus will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.
Minimum Salary
£
110,000.00
Maximum Salary
£
115,000.00
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