Job Title: Business Manager
Department: Building Science
Job Summary:
Lerch Bates is hiring a Business Manager to assist our Building Science group. The Business Manager ensures that the field operations administrative teams are aligned in process and working toward the successful attainment of organizational and area Performance Metrics and Objectives. We are looking for candidates with previous experience with financial reporting and analytics. Apply to become an employee owner today!
Company Insight:
Lerch Bates is the global multidisciplinary technical consultancy, saving time and money for those designing, modernizing, investigating, or managing buildings. From risk to ROI, schedule to sustainability, Lerch Bates’ suite of services helps you plan the future of your building at every phase of the building lifecycle. As your partner in finding the best technical outcomes for your project, we ensure functionality, safety, and value work together.
We simplify the path to the best technical expertise for the built environment anywhere in the world. Lerch Bates offers integrated specialties, including vertical transportation, logistics, enclosures & structures, forensics, and multidisciplinary building lifecycle services that optimize performance from design, construction, and management to forensic investigation, repair, and modernization.
What You’ll Do:
The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed in this position. They are not intended to prescribe or restrict the assignments that management may make.
- Work with leadership to create, manage, and control the budget, financial management, and forecasting activities for the business unit.
- Partner with the EVP and Area Vice Presidents (AVPs) in establishing the budget and strategic priorities to meet the organizational and area short-term and long-term financial objectives.
- Manage financial reporting, providing detailed financial analysis and financial perspective recommendations to EVP and AVPs. Ensures flow down of similar reporting and analytics to the offices.
- Oversee and provide leadership to the business unit financial and administrative operations team, including hiring, performance management and feedback, coaching, encourage professional development, ensuring the team has the tools needed to do their jobs.
- Validation of data, invoices, and outcomes impacting client projects and operational financial reporting.
- Work closely with other Business Unit Business Managers, along with Corporate Accounting and Finance.
- Manage the teams responsible for client invoicing and entry of projects in the accounting system.
- Assist in the development of project pricing particularly on hourly projects requiring audited overhead rates and adherence to contract terms. Work with operational managers to measure, report and manage gross margin on a project level basis.
- Focus on continuous process improvement, making suggestions and implementing agreed upon processes. Promoting processes, standardization, efficiency, and accuracy, that will position operations administrative team to achieve organization and area objectives.
- Track performance metrics and success toward area objectives and based upon analysis, adjusts processes and team.
- Collaborate with operational teams to develop forecasts by office for respective Business Unit.
- Performs other functions in support of the Business Unit and EVP and AVPs.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
- Additional training in business administration and leadership is desirable.
- 2+ years of related finance and/or business management experience is an ideal preparation to be successful in this role.
- Strong business, contracts, operations, and management acumen, including financial analysis, the ability to make decisions, delegate appropriately and propel the work performance of others.
- Inspirational and motivational leadership skills, including professional development coaching and counseling, proper empowerment of others to act, developing a service and team focused culture amongst reports.
- Ability to take ownership and hold others responsible.
- Thrive in partnership with and support of others and independent efforts.
- Ability to gather, interpret and report data, then translate into action plans.
- Highly organized, thorough, precise, and detail oriented.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Conflict resolution skills, to navigate situations constructively.
- Emotional intelligence, understanding and managing your own emotions while empathizing with others.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment juggling multiple projects and priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Acrobat, and Deltek.
Why work with Lerch Bates?
- Pay rate of $100k-$125k/year.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Employee Stock Ownership program!
- Generous PTO
- Incentive compensation bonus
- 401(k) with up to 6% employer match!
- FSA and HSA
- Charitable paid time off
- Birthday Bonus
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development
- An entire internal department dedicated to your learning and career development!
- Exceptional company culture
- Employee resource groups
- Team building and networking activities
- And more!
Be more than just an employee…
Lerch Bates is 100% employee-owned! Our employee-owners bring a distinct “we own what we do” brand of technical consulting to every project and partnership. When you work with us, you join a company with an ownership mindset. Expect responsibility, service, and performance in everything we do. So, what does that mean for you? After a certain service time, you are eligible for stock ownership, which essentially works as an additional wealth accumulation and/or retirement account!
CORE Values: Ownership . Community . Integrity . Respect . Optimism
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment background check and drug test. The drug test includes screening for marijuana, regardless of state or local laws permitting its use. A conditional offer of employment will be rescinded if a candidate fails either the background check or the drug test. This requirement is mandated by federal regulations applicable to our government contracting obligations.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
