Salary: $100k - $125k / yrKnowledge and Experience:- 5 or more years of proven finance experience
- Experience managing a full P&L
- Transit experience preferred, but not required
- Ability to meet critical deadlines and achieve organizational objectives
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required, Master's degree preferred
- Strong work experience with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Access
- Proficiency with ERPs and Reporting Tools; Microsoft Dynamics/Anaplan a plus
- High level of analytic, quantitative, and financial modelling skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work across different departments
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills a must
- Ability to manage employees, while multi-tasking large projects
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment
Key Accountabilities: - Finance business partner to the OCTA leadership team and General Manager
- Accountable for the financial management of OCTA (AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Inventory supervision)
- Provide timely and accurate reporting and forecast, with insights from financial trends and operational KPIs/performance
- Drive and oversee month end close process in partnership with Controlling/Accounting Team
- Implement and drive performance dialogue with Operations team (GM, OCTA leadership team, Driver supervision, Maintenance)
- Implement and drive action plan to ensure delivery of financial targets
- Responds to ad-hoc financial analysis, special projects and similar duties
- Ensure compliance and delegation of authority is applied and respected throughout the OCTA organization.
- Drives internal controls process for finance systems. Document financial processes, initiate process improvement and action plan to ensure key financial and contractual targets are being met.
Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
All roles may entail, to varying extents, the following physical demands:
- Long periods (potentially exceeding 8 hours per day) of walking, standing, sitting, bending, pushing, pulling, climbing, lifting, balancing, stooping, twisting, squatting, handling materials, repetitive hand-wrist motions, and traversing uneven surfaces;
- Exposure to both extreme heat and cold;
- Exposure to loud noises, fumes, and airborne particles;
In addition to the above demands inherent in every role, the following roles may entail unique physical demands, including:
- Operators/Drivers may work inside or outside vehicles and may operate vehicles for over 8 hours per day.
- Operations Supervisors and Managers may split their work between an office setting looking at a computer screen/electronic device and active transit field locations driving in a vehicle.
- Maintenance Employees may be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals in a ventilated maintenance shop and may work with personal computers, laptops, electronic hand-held devices, complex electrical schematics, diagnostic software and testing devices, and other heavy machinery.
- Office Staff may work indoors in air-conditioned or well-ventilated facilities, including offices and cubicle spaces equipped with a telephone and computer and may entail typing or looking at a computer screen.
