About Veolia North America

A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water, and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website www.veolianorthamerica.com.

BENEFITS

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

Position Purpose:

This position reports to the Finance Manager of Regulated NJ and is expected to deliver aid in strategic performance analysis in addition to operational financial planning and analysis of the Regulated Water Utility. Requires high autonomy to personally drive and deliver projects to completion. Role should have a drive to understand full P&L impacts inclusive of revenue drivers, risks & opportunities, business drivers, and budget variances. This position will directly work with local operations to educate and apply technical and financial knowledge. This position is a key contributor to defining and implementing change management initiatives.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

Co-Lead Key Performance Indicators Presentation (Development, Presentations, Feedback):

• Prepare and develop KPIs covering the 400 person operations spanning. regional and functional business units. 400M annual revenue, 200M capital spend, and operating expense.
• Monitor compliance, benchmark performance, enhance customer experience, drive operational excellence, identify cost reduction opportunities,
• Discuss and challenge operational and financial assumptions in liaison with the Division GM, Director of Finance, and Mid-State Sr Director of Operations.
• Consolidate takeaways and personally deliver answers with operations buy in.

Drive change management to improve revenue performance and financial efficiency:

• Offer strategic solutions with intimate understanding of utility business functions and in relation to financial profitability, accounting rules, state/federal regulatory compliance, and contractual agreements.
• Monitor operational objectives and metrics that drive the financial performance of the division.
• Produce regular Revenue / AR reporting and highlight variances.
• Provide high level of data proficiency and analytical skills.

Deliver FP&A support to Director of Finance, Manager, and Finance Team:

• Provide variance deep dive analysis with historical and forecasts.
• Run Variance and cost/revenue models and Peoplesoft (ERP) analysis in Hyperion Planning and budgeting.
• Deliver timely support to Rate Case and DSIC Filing.
• Deliver financial metrics on billing and receivables inclusive of trend analysis of DBO/DSO, AR metrics, benchmarking, and target setting.

Complete the following tasks annually or ad-hoc as needed:

• Department specific capitalization rate recommendations.
• Payroll time entry accuracy.
• Vacancy monitoring.
• Transportation Allocation.
• Create/Update supplemental reports to be used by local management such as Dept Coding Blocks, Report of Open PO’s & Blankets, Vendor Payments, etc.
• Liaison between local management, corporate depts., and outside parties for items such as PCards, local P/R issues, vendor issues, etc.
• Support Veolia system rollouts and pioneer the adaptation of new platform solutions.
• Analysis within operational systems AMI, Clevest, Kloudgin, CC&B, GIS.

Support the GM, Director of Finance, and Mid-State Sr Director of Operations in the decision making process:

• Providing ad-hoc analysis, studies and by anticipating possible development of risks and opportunities.
• Providing long term strategic thinking, including rate filing options and CAPEX programs.
• Analyzing new business projects, determining whether there is a growth opportunity or a major capital expenditure and whether or not the spend is viable and cost efficient.

Act as a leader within the division:

• Ensuring that the information generated by other departments in the division is accurate, including but not limited to Revenue and Accounts Receivable integrity (Customer Service), Operational KPI’s (Operation), CAPEX (Engineering), Headcount (HR), etc.
• Being the gatekeeper to make sure that company policies are enforced and controls are in place
• Being a change agent in making policy recommendations and by rolling out new business practices, organization and tools deployed by the company
• Coordinating the preparation of the reporting to the regulatory commission.

Support Division and the Segment as well as Corporate with regard to providing to or controlling information from the following departments:

• Rates Department, especially when there is a rate filing.
• Accounting, Tax, Treasury, with regard to the production of financial statements.
• Procurement, IT
• Internal Audit and External Audit

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor degree in accounting or finance required.
• MBA preferred.
• 4-6 years of progressive experience in Finance/Accounting.
• Prior utility industry experience desired.
• Significant achievements in analyzing complex financial issues.
• KPI or data science experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that translates to operational effectiveness.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact with all level of management.
• Exceptional leadership abilities, including the ability to influence actions in other departments.
• High sense of urgency and ability to work under strict deadline pressures. Ability to identify creative solutions to time sensitive problems by balancing achievement of objectives with practical considerations.
• Proficient with Google or Microsoft Office Suite.
• Peoplesoft, Hyperion, SmartView knowledge are highly desirable.
• Highly effective management of data, presentation skill, and data visualization (SQL basics preferred).
• Integrity, reliability and autonomy.
• Hyperion (Budgeting)
• Customer Care & Billing (CC&B).

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.