Manager, Capital Economics And Analysis

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POSITION SUMMARY
The Manager of Capital Economics and Analysis is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, cost assurance, internal reporting, and related analysis of financial performance of the enterprise capital budget. This position works with many key stakeholders including the CFO and VP of Finance, to ensure capital budget performance is defined, forecast, and reported. The Manager, Capital Economics & Analysis, is responsible for overseeing the preparation of the annual capital budget. The position is responsible for reaching out to various stakeholders such as the project managers and gathering their monthly capital forecasts and consolidating them into an enterprise view. The Manager of Capital Economics and Analysis will also work to support executives and others within the company on high level strategic deals, by providing analysis and long-term cash financial forecasts on these opportunities. The position interacts with executive leadership and creates key reports for the Board of Directors.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions

• Work with key stakeholders and lead the creation and maintenance of the company's annual CAPEX budget.
• Make sure the budget is aligned with companies' strategic goals.
• Assist Accounting team to monitor compliance with corporate capitalization policies.
• Drive analysis of actual results vs. budgeted, forecasted, and historical results. Provide meaningful variance analysis of key drivers impacting results and trends. Support all departments in managing their capital expenditures.
• Work closely with the company leaders and executives to complete financial reporting and budget objectives. Assist and participate as expert individual contributor in meetings and presentations.
• Support the development of financial models, forecasting tools and ad-hoc analysis to assist the senior leadership team with strategic decisions. Assist the VP Finance with the maintenance of the long term forecast model.
• Deliver weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of the company's capital expenditures relative to the approved budget. Provide meaningful insight into the key drivers of any variances, articulate key trends, and identify potential strategies to mitigate overspend and develop opportunities for savings.
• Critically evaluate problems, situations, or processes in coordination with other business leaders involved in key company initiatives. Perform root cause analysis and propose countermeasures. Lead cross functional teams to resolve issues and improve capital efficiency.
• Provide guidance in financial and operational meetings, such as financial close meetings, capital meetings, monthly operational reviews, quarterly finance meetings and corporate annual meetings.
• Manage adherence to SOX internal controls.
• Other duties as required.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competency Statement(s)

• Business and Process Leadership - A keen understanding of business processes including sales, customer service, ordering, service delivery, billing, customer support, capital spending and cost assurance with the ability to map processes and understand inter-linkages to each other and to the systems that support the processes. Ability to drive process metrics and measures, measurement points in a process and the ability to drive customer experience improvements and process change. Strong capabilities in vendor management and integrating vendor provided support to technical and process functions of the engineering organization.
• Analytical Skill - Ability to use critical thinking and reasoning in gathering and processing complex data with succinct decision-making skills.
• Financial Aptitude - Ability to understand and explain economic and accounting information, prepare, and manage budgets and forecasts, and make sound long-term investment decisions.
• Business Acumen - Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communication Skills - Successful candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Position will require frequent preparation and delivery of detailed plans and proposals at the executive and Board level. Strong communication/interpersonal skills with emphasis on decision-making, conflict management, and team building and teamwork. Must have ability to develop work plans, work effectively as a member of a team, report on status of projects, and represent the team in meetings and/or with the customer, and be able to coordinate issues identification and resolution between customers and the development team. Ability to present complicated information in an easily understandable way in front of large audiences.
• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.

• Adaptability - Ability to preserve flexibility in a fast-paced environment, and continually evolve to meet the changing business needs.

• Management Skills - Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others if needed.
• Project Management - Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
• Collaboration - This position has a high degree of interaction across the organization, and as such requires skills to work with peers and superiors that have many other competing priorities for their time.

Education: Bachelor's degree in finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field required. Highly preferred: Graduate Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field. Equivalent experience may be substituted for education.
Experience: A minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, or a closely related discipline. Equivalent education may be substituted for experience.
Other Requirements: Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in an organization's business processes, as well as the skill to conduct root cause analysis. Aptitude to effectively manage work groups and teams to successful completion, including planning, implementation, follow-through, monitoring, and the refining of processes as needed to support ACS business requirements.
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