Our Business

We are a global leader in environmental consulting - made stronger with the recent acquisition of Wood’s Environment & Infrastructure business and Golder - with world-class expertise in environmental, social and governance (ESG), climate resiliency & sustainability (CRS), and earth sciences. Combined we have over 20,000 multidisciplinary professionals worldwide collaborating daily to protect and conserve natural landscapes, create firm foundations for communities to stand on, and champion sustainable development to combat climate change.

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a California E&E District Finance Lead to support our expanded California Earth and Environment practice. This position can be based in any WSP office in the California District. The California District Finance Lead works closely with various regional leadership teams responsible for business partnership on financial decisions. This key role will report directly to the Regional Finance Director.

Your Impact

• Develops and directs the organization's financial analysis function in the applicable region

• Assesses existing and proposed regional financial plans and projects as related to the organization's long-range goals and objectives

• Oversees the analysis of all regional financial data and propose changes to ensure financial targets are met

• Participates in assessment of M&A activities and due diligence processes

• Responsible for managing annual operating, planning and budgeting processes with senior management

• Effectively reporting data and metrics to all stakeholders

• Mentors and trains junior-level staff

• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline

• 10+ years of relevant experience in a finance or accounting role, with some experience in project focused industry

• Excellence in analytical techniques and modeling in tackling technical problems with a high degree of complexity

• Strong skills in reporting, analyzing data for a business unit and communicating results and metrics in a concise manner to non-finance stakeholders

• Ability to interact with and elicit cooperation from a wide variety of stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, and staff from various levels, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits

• Must have strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization

• Ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced and changing environment

• Demonstrated strong commitment to the highest level of quality excellence, self-drive and innovative thinking

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry experience in engineering, construction or related technical consulting firm

• Oracle systems experience

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.