Financial Business Partner: Strategic Accounts

Paladin Technologies

$109K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of finance or project accounting experience, with leadership exposure preferred
  • Hands-on approach to financial processes in regional, branch, and project levels
  • Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to market dynamics
  • Ability to analyze financial data and derive actionable insights
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders
  • Strategic thinker with understanding of risk management
  • Advanced proficiency with financial software (e.g., Project Accounting, ERP systems)
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Develop Strategic Account budgets and financial forecasts
  • Prepare and review financial reports for Strategic Accounts management
  • Work on cost control and profitability analysis with business partners
  • Collaborate with account management to drive key initiatives
  • Provide financial insights for corporate initiatives including M&A
  • Mitigate specific financial risks associated with Strategic Accounts
  • Assist with other financial aspects as required

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for associates and families
  • Company-provided basic life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability
  • Access to employee assistance program
  • Voluntary benefits including supplemental life, accident, and critical illness insurance
  • 401(k) plan with employer match of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed, up to 6% of earnings
  • Paid time off (PTO), state-mandated sick leave, and 9 paid holidays
  • Benefits effective from the first day of employment
Full Job Description
Financial Business Partner: Strategic Accounts
Vancouver, BC


The Financial Business Partner: Strategic Accounts oversees financial operations across a designated geographic region or strategic domain (Service, Strategic Accounts). Serving as a key advisor to regional and North American leadership, this role aligns financial performance with local business objectives and corporate policies, ensuring strategic financial oversight down to the branch level and ensuring the Strategic account success

Key Responsibilities:
  • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A): Develop Strategic Account budgets, forecasts, and financial plans (incl. derived budgets for Domains, Strategic Accounts and Service); provide insights to optimize regional performance including decentralized P&Ls.
  • Reporting: Prepare & review financial reports with Strategic Accounts and Commercial Key Management. Support Corporate Controlling in their reporting needs.
  • Cost Control, Profitability and NWC: Work with regional Business Partners on Regional-Branch costs (incl. utilization, variances) and Net Working Capital as required - follow up on defined measures to achieve targets / support pricing strategies to enhance profitability in alignment with Commercial Key Management
  • Business Partnering: Collaborate with Strategic Account Management and Commercial Key Management to drive operational and strategic initiatives.
  • Strategic Decision and Support: Provide financial insights and internal support for corporate initiatives (e.g., M&A, Strategic Business Reviews).
  • Risk Management: Mitigate Strategic Account specific financial risks.
  • Other duties as assigned to support all financial aspects of the company.
Required Qualifications
  • Experience: Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in finance or project accounting, ideally with a few years in a leadership role (e.g., Regional Controller, Domain Controller, Group Lead Project Accounting, Branch Lead FP&A).
  • Operational Focus: Hands-on approach to Regional-Branch-Project financial processes.
  • Problem-Solving / Adaptability: Flexibility to navigate Regional-Branch market dynamics.
  • Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze regional financial data for actionable insights.
  • Communication and Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills to work with Regional-Branch stakeholders and translate corporate goals locally.
  • Strategic thinking: support strategic planning and local risk management.
  • Change Management: Drive FP&A standardization, provide best in class-learning & adaption incl. technology adoption.
  • System Savvy: Advanced experience with Project Accounting and Accounts Receivables software applications, and reporting solutions (i.e. PowerBI, Data Lake)
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or equivalent experience
  • Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency with an ERP system(s), (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics MD365 preferred, SAP, Coins) Power BI, and Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Multi-Entity/Multi-Location Experience: Specific experience managing the finances and consolidation for multiple regional entities, business units, or international operations financial lead for high-end strategic accounts, ensuring accurate reporting and operational alignment across various entities and geographic locations
  • Advanced Excel exp
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience preferred

Physical Demands: In general, the following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
  • Must be able to effectively communicate, (i.e. see, hear, speak and write clearly) in order to communicate with employees and/or customers; manual dexterity required for frequent reaching, and lifting of small objects, and operating office equipment.

Working Conditions: In general, the following conditions of the work environment are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
  • The office is clean, orderly, properly lighted and ventilated. Noise levels are considered low to moderate
  • Travel may be required. UP to 10%

Benefits:

Associates and their eligible family members are offered comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options as well as company-provided basic life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, and access to the employee assistance program. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental life and AD&D insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance plans, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and HSA and FSA account options. Associates also have the option to enroll in the company's 401(k) plan. In addition, associates receive PTO (paid time off), state-mandated sick leave, and 9 paid holidays.

Benefits are effective on their first day of employment

401(k) employer match of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed by the associate up to 6% of earnings.

Pay Rate: $109,000 - $140,000 CAD - DOE

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