The Senior Manager – Global Project Accounting &amp; Financial Performance is a senior leadership role with end-to-end accountability for financial performance, operational excellence, and service delivery outcomes across a large, regional Project Accounting organization.This role owns financial KPIs, service level performance, stakeholder satisfaction, and continuous improvement outcomes, serving as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, regional finance leadership, and global delivery stakeholders. The position combines strategic leadership, governance ownership, and hands-on oversight of complex financial operations supporting high-value, multi-year infrastructure projects.Key AccountabilitiesLeadership &amp; Stakeholder Management<ul><li>Act as a primary senior point of contact for executive stakeholders, including regional Finance Leads, Project Directors, Business Line Leaders, and Global Service Delivery leadership.</li><li>Build and maintain trusted, influential relationships with senior stakeholders through proactive engagement, transparent communication, and consistent delivery against commitments.</li><li>Lead stakeholder governance forums, performance reviews, and escalation discussions, ensuring alignment on priorities, risks, and outcomes.</li><li>Translate complex financial and operational data into clear executive-level insights and recommendations that support strategic decision-making.</li></ul>KPI Ownership &amp; Performance Management<ul><li>Own and govern the full suite of financial, operational, and service delivery KPIs, ensuring alignment with global standards, SLAs, and business expectations.</li><li>Establish performance targets, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to track productivity, quality, timeliness, financial accuracy, cash flow, and margin performance.</li><li>Drive a performance-driven culture, holding leaders and teams accountable for results and corrective actions.</li><li>Lead root-cause analysis for KPI variances and ensure timely execution of remediation and continuous improvement plans.</li><li>Regularly report performance outcomes, trends, and risks to senior leadership, including recommendations for strategic or operational intervention.</li></ul>Financial Ownership<ul><li>Provide senior oversight of project financial execution, including revenue recognition, cost control, reserves, contingencies.</li><li>Review and interpret complex commercial and contractual arrangements to ensure appropriate financial treatment and risk mitigation.</li><li>Oversee analysis of WIP, unbilled costs, billings in excess of earnings, and receivables to drive improvements in cash flow, margin, and financial predictability.</li><li>Serve as a senior escalation authority for complex accounting judgments, ensuring compliance with IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and internal control requirements.</li></ul>Operational Excellence &amp; Service Delivery<ul><li>Lead a large, geographically distributed organization of, ensuring scalable, resilient, and high-quality service delivery.</li><li>Ensure consistent execution of global processes, standards, and controls across regions and end markets.</li><li>Partner with GPOs, Global Service Delivery Leads, and functional leaders to drive operational stability, maturity, and standardization.</li><li>Oversee capacity planning, workforce optimization, utilization, and skill mix to support business growth and changing demand.</li></ul>Transformation &amp; Continuous Improvement<ul><li>Own and lead finance transformation initiatives aligned with global strategy, including process standardization, automation, and digital enablement.</li><li>Identify opportunities to enhance value-added services, shifting the function from transactional execution to strategic financial partnership.</li><li>Drive tower alignment and harmonization of processes, controls, and reporting frameworks.</li><li>Champion a continuous improvement mindset supported by data, benchmarks, and best-in-class practices.</li></ul>Risk, Controls &amp; Compliance<ul><li>Ensure robust governance, internal controls, and compliance with SOX, audit requirements, and internal policies.</li><li>Lead preparation and support for internal and external audits, business risk reviews, and project health assessments.</li><li>Own business continuity planning and execution for the function, ensuring operational resilience and risk mitigation.</li></ul>Talent &amp; Leadership Development<ul><li>Set clear leadership expectations and build a strong management layer capable of sustaining performance at scale.</li><li>Drive talent strategy including recruitment, succession planning, retention, and leadership development.</li><li>Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous learning aligned with AECOM values.</li><li>Act as a role model for inclusive leadership, ethical decision-making, and professional excellence.</li></ul>

AECOM is the world&rsquo;s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle &ndash; from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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