Crown Castle works around the country to build and maintain the infrastructure behind the world’s most revolutionary technologies.
As the largest shared infrastructure provider in the United States, Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 80,000 small cells and over 80,000 route miles of fiber across every major US market.
This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology and wireless service – bringing information, ideas and innovations to the people and businesses that need them.
Crown Castle is a NYSE S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States with an enterprise value of approximately $110 billion.
Position Title: Director Finance
– Network
– M4
Position Summary
Incumbent will regionally drive key finance initiatives, operational strategy, and monitor control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results.
Responsible for monitoring budgets and financials for both small cell and fiber projects occurring within the region.
Additionally, communicating financial and business impacts to the regional leadership on an ongoing basis.
Must also ensure that Crown Castle’s financial tracking and reporting standards and procedures are properly understood and used in the Business Unit.
Essential Job Functions
• Oversee performance of Network project portfolio for the assigned region.
Ensure projects reflect up-to-date budgets and meets all financial controls requirements.
Analyze the projected spend and expected completion dates to forecast capital outlay for the region and for the business.
• Partner with Network FP&A function to provide outlook on capital budget adherence and revenue commencement for the regional portfolio of projects.
• Provide Regional leadership overview of revenue, expense, and direct margin.
• Analyze the financial performance of the given region by market and by product type for both cumulative and incremental investments.
Track capital returns and yields.
• Collaborate with regional sales leadership to formulate sales strategies and provide deal level approvals for financial soundness based on Commitment Authority.
• Collaborate with Network Business Performance function and Corporate finance functions to analyze, identify and rectify systematic issues for the Network Business.
• Contributes actively to the evolution and execution of the Network’s strategic and business plans, providing strategic input and leadership to support the Network’s growth objectives and proactively address challenges.
• Partners with and supports the business on ad hoc analysis to support operational and strategic initiatives of the business.
• In conjunction with the Corporate IT and Process Improvement functions, help to identify and ensure the implementation of systems and software to provide critical financial and operational information, including automating processes to increase efficiency where applicable.
• Provides strong leadership in the recruitment, training and development of top-quality financial talent to ensure the finance organization has a high level of performance and productivity.
Instills a culture that emphasizes accountability and transparency among the finance team and within Network as a whole.
Manages, mentors and supervises direct reports through active participation in performance management and talent planning and development.
• Serves as a spokesperson to Network employees to communicate the Company’s business model, strategy and operational and financial objectives, including enhancing the Network’s financial acumen and decision-making competencies through training and educational efforts.
• Ensures compliance with the internal controls in place to comply with GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting.
• Serves as a Network cross-functional partner that maintains continuous lines of communication throughout the business unit, keeping the Network senior leadership team informed of all critical issues (opportunities / threats / challenges).
Education/Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or equivalent applicable experience preferred
• MBA preferred
Experience/Minimum Requirements
• Minimum of eight (8) years of combined experience in progressively responsible finance or operational leadership roles
Other Skills/Abilities
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written), and the ability to interface effectively with all levels within the organization, including executive and senior management teams.
Strong relationship-building skills that fosters trust and collaboration with the Business Unit and Corporate teams.
• Strong financial/commercial acumen and the ability to assess value, risks and tradeoffs.
• Strategic thinker that can balance the organization’s short and long-term future while taking into account the organization’s capabilities, resources and objectives.
• Proven decision-making skills and the ability to assemble many pieces of information into a cohesive and sophisticated understanding of complex issues.
• Ability to prioritize, coordinate and align resources and objectives across multiple work groups.
• Ability to foster a culture that supports creativity, innovation and well-reasoned risk-taking.
• Ability to re-engineer processes to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ability to portray financial results in a simple manner.
• Personal attributes include high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.
Organizational Relationship
Reports to: Vice President Network Finance
Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable): Manager Financial Planning & Analysis
Working Conditions: Works in a normal office setting with no exposure to adverse environmental conditions. This position requires travel and working with a distributed team.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.