Regional Finance & Business Operations Manager
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Summary
The Regional Finance & Business Operations Manager is a permanent, full-time hybrid position that provides financial leadership, operational financial support, and commercial analysis across an assigned region. Acting as a strategic partner to regional operational leadership, this role focuses on driving financial performance through budgeting, forecasting, and process improvement.
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Description
Position Overview
The Regional Finance & Business Operations Manager acts as the strategic financial co-pilot to the regional operations leadership team. This role bridges the gap between high-level finance and ground-level operations, translating complex financial data into actionable commercial strategies to maximize regional profitability.
This is an analytical and leadership position, not an administrative one. It exercises functional oversight over the Shared Services team, which entirely insulates this manager from day-to-day transactional processing, invoice coding, and data entry. This setup allows the manager to focus exclusively on forward-looking, high-impact business analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Partnership & Financial Performance
Collaborate with operational leaders to analyze customer profitability, review pricing structures, evaluate business cases, and drive regional budget and forecast accuracy. This includes managing regional budgets, analyzing financial performance and trends, preparing monthly P&L reporting, and supporting site managers with financial insights.
Governance & Risk Gatekeeping
Serve as the regional custodian for financial compliance, ensuring operational sites strictly adhere to company approval processes, internal controls, and risk protocols. This involves overseeing regional financial and operational controls, reviewing exception reporting from Shared Services, and addressing internal audit findings.
Functional Oversight of Shared Services
Providing functional oversight to the Shared Services team, improving workflow efficiency, and ensuring reporting requirements are met.
Operational Optimization & Asset Management
Look beyond the balance sheet to evaluate physical business drivers, including property utilization, asset management, capital expenditure (capex) requests, and productivity trends. This also includes reviewing customer and operational profitability, helping maintain customer rate structures, and supporting capex requests.
Logistics & Reporting
Reporting Structure
The role reports directly to the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager while maintaining a strong indirect, collaborative relationship with the Operations General Manager, Regional Manager, and local Site Managers.
Travel
Regular travel is required to operational sites within the assigned region and to the Head Office.
Performance Review
Conducted annually.
Requirements & qualifications
Requirements & Qualifications
The position requires a commercially savvy financial professional with experience in operational environments like logistics or warehousing. The ideal candidate possesses the interpersonal skills required to influence non-financial stakeholders on site, paired with the analytical depth needed to guide executive commercial decisions.
Key Selection Criteria
- Experience: Background in financial management, business operations, or commercial finance. Experience in logistics, warehousing, or operational industries is preferred.
- Technical Skills: Strong financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and relationship management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with non-financial stakeholders.
- Systems Used: CargoWise, Greentree/Evolve, Prophix, Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, SharePoint), and DoneSafe.