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I. Job Summary
This is a highly visible finance position responsible for enhancing the effectiveness of the field finance organization through talent development, best practice deployment, tool adoption, and change management.
The role serves as a strategic partner to Area and Corporate finance leadership and their respective teams. The primary focus is to improve capabilities, drive consistency, and accelerate adoption of finance processes and technologies across the enterprise.
An individual in this role will be an advocate for the Areas and Corporate, translating field needs into actionable recommendations, while ensuring successful implementation of finance tools, processes, and operating models developed through corporate finance initiatives.
II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reports, analyzes, and interprets highly complex financial and operating data for the assigned area. Such reporting, analysis and interpretation may include cost analysis, market niche reporting, profitability analysis, regional geographic performance assessments, pricing analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis and any other ad-hoc analysis of interest to management.
• Monitors and analyzes highly advanced key financial performance measures.
• Provides assistance as needed in preparing budgets, forecast and financial reviews. Ensures the highest quality of the deliverables.
• Performs highly advanced financial projects on an ad hoc basis.
• Assists the corporate accounting function with matters related to the annual audit, contract audits and income tax matters, as required.
• Reviews consolidated month-end results and provides input for deviations from budget or forecast. Provides recommendations for future cost reductions or profit improvements, as well as adjustments to forecasts.
• Manages a team of individual contributors who typically support activities related to unique or one-off transactions that may have an ongoing impact on company's continued financial operations on a corporate level as well as field accounting activity.
• Responsible for hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, coaching, and career development; ensures that the proper tools are in place to support the team and the processes.
• Performs complex financial analysis from the activity supported by this group as needed.
• Exhibits a strong understanding of the business to determine the best method for achieving objectives.
• Proactively and effectively consults with other finance and accounting personnel in order to timely and most efficiently achieve company-wide goals.
• Proactively drives process improvement and embraces changes for achieve a goal of being a world class finance organization. Provides leadership during implementation of business-wide programs and products.
• Actively reviews, analyzes, and manages the key controls within the domain of responsibility to ensure compliance with legal and accounting requirements.

III. Qualifications
A. Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Accounting, Business Administration or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree,
• High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience
• 7 years years previous experience (in addition to education requirements)

B. Preferred Qualifications

• Finance & Accounting\Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

IV. Physical Requirements
Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Office: This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, etc.
V. Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability. In addition, we offer a stock purchase plan, company matching on a 401(k), and more. Employees also receive paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
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About Us
ABOUT WM
WM (WM.com) is North America's leading provider of comprehensive environmental solutions. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial, medical and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them pursue their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is a leader in beneficial use of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most landfill gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM's fleet includes more than 12,000 natural gas trucks - the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet in the industry in North America. Healthcare Solutions provides collection and disposal services of regulated medical waste, as well as secure information destruction services, in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe. To learn more about WM and the company's sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity
For United States: WM is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
For Canada: WM is committed to the principle of equal employment for all applicants and employees, without discrimination on the basis of all grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please notify us if you require accommodation.
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About the Team
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