Financial Process Manager

At Van Metre, we believe that each employee contributes directly to our growth, success and culture, and are seeking a candidate who loves to challenge themselves and work with others to fulfill this role. Van Metre has a Financial Process Manager position available to join our Financial Planning and Analysis Team!

About the Role: The role is a highly visible and challenging role, rich in data, analytics, and process improvement, playing a crucial role in driving business results. The Financial Process Manager will use professional expertise to utilize Van Metre’s financial, sales, and operation systems to review, analyze, and transform data into insight, furthering the evolution of the company. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with business leaders to obtain a macroeconomic view to streamline business processes to improve efficiency and accuracy while implementing solutions to improve financial and operational performance.  The role offers the opportunity to obtain an encompassing view of systems, processes and performance while also improving efficiency and accuracy. This role reports directly to the Director of Financial Planning and provides support collaborating primarily with New Homes Accounting but may also assist in supporting New Homes Operations, Land, Acquisition, Corporate, and Commercial and Investment Properties divisions

Responsibilities:

• Assist and facilitate improvements in Accounting processes/procedures and the close process with a focus on accuracy, scalability and automation
• Facilitate relationship between New Homes Accounting and FP&A group to collaborate to improve budgeting and forecasting processes. Gain understanding of departmental processes to identify bottlenecks and propose and create solutions to improve efficiency
• Capture, evaluate, prioritize, and understand business needs and translate them into business processes, applications, and system requirements; assess benefits to be derived and change impacts from system improvements and quantify impacts to business units
• Ability to write SQL queries and stored procedures for integration with other applications and for reporting primarily in Microsoft Power BI; ability to create complex data joins exhibiting expertise in data collection methodologies to support subsequent data analysis, business and finance processes and statistics
• Work collaboratively within Financial Planning team, Business Intelligence team and Information Technology team to evolve data and technology infrastructure and process information
• Execute in timely, accurate and reliable manner; communicate findings clearly and concisely to diverse business leaders, key contributors and stakeholders
• As part of the process of implementing new business solutions, role will provide documentation and analysis in support of the business process framework, systems landscape, strategy, and other program priorities

Qualifications / Required Skills and Expertise:

• Proven technical skills in SQL and scripting; ability to generate complex queries and joins of datasets to process data to support business analysis, benchmarking, and optimization efforts
• 7+ years of experience as Business Intelligence Analyst, Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Statistical Analyst role in Business Operations, Finance, Business Administration, Business Intelligence or similar field
• Prior experience or education in field of Accounting 
• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to extrapolate and apply findings from analysis and data; attentiveness to accuracy
• Strong interpersonal skills to work closely with subject matter experts across the company; serve as liaison between business, technical and program support teams
• Demonstrate confidence in explaining, defending and or challenging analytical findings
• Familiarity with data warehouse concepts
• Aptitude to further skillset in areas of need for the business and address a broad range of operational and performance metrics
• Absolute integrity; highly motivated; able to quickly learn and understand key business drivers and business models; able to manage multiple priorities and tasks while operating effectively in a dynamic, matrixed environment
• Ability to communicate across diverse audiences ranging from business leadership to technical roles throughout the organization, including field operations; professional maturity and presence to effectively interact with senior leadership
• Facilitate meetings and or design sessions to validate, prioritize and document project requirements
• Ability to organize, coordinate and direct projects leading to innovative, strategic initiatives
• Intellectual curiosity; strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Strong desire and willingness to support team endeavors beyond core responsibilities
• Operate under minimal supervision and perform duties with broad latitude for exercising independent judgment
• Willingness to learn AL to customize Business Central Reports
• Proficiency with Office 365 product suite

Performance Measurement:

• Ability to achieve or exceed designated performance goals
• Accuracy, timeliness, insightfulness, presentation skills
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance

Preferred Skill / Expertise:

• CPA, MBA, CFA, master’s degree or certifications in programming languages or other areas related to data analytics
• Six Sigma
• Power BI visualization / DAX expertise

Van Metre Companies has been named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for seven consecutive years! We have received the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work Award for the last six years, and have received their Corporate Philanthropy Award for the last nine years in a row!!!

We offer excellent benefits, and a work environment that fosters and rewards excellence. We also promote work/life balance, including a robust Employee Wellness Program.  We encourage employees to make full use of vacation and company paid volunteer time to refresh their bodies and minds.

Van Metre Mission Statement

The mission of Van Metre Companies is to build and continually improve upon the storied reputation, earned over the years since the Company’s founding in 1955, of providing top quality homes, investment properties and services to our customers and clients. The Company’s emphasis on integrity, professionalism and philanthropy ingrained by our founder Albert G. Van Metre, Sr. has garnered trust and respect in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. It is critical to our future that we maintain that reputation and assure that Van Metre Companies continues to excel in real estate development and construction and in the management of apartment, retail and office investment properties, as well as in the provision of mortgage and related services. It is the task of our dedicated, energetic, and involved professionals to advance our ability to set the benchmark for luxury living and refined commercial development. The capstone of our mission is to make the “Van Metre” signature an icon for elegant residential communities, and industry leading condominium and apartment communities, as well as Class A neighborhood retail centers and office developments.