Want to hear something crazy? Cars only spend 5% of their time driving. Where do they spend the other 95%? PARKED!

LAZ Parking is one of the largest and fastest growing parking companies in the country. LAZ operates hundreds of thousands of parking spaces across the country. When it comes to parking, we're the experts!

We are also a PEOPLE FIRST company. We often say "parking is our industry but people are our passion." Our mission is to "create opportunities for our employees and value for our clients". If you're looking to join a growing company led by passionate people committed to being the best - contact us today!

The Spirit of the Position:

LAZ Parking's large geographic footprint, diverse and wide ranging service lines, and unique deal structures have created an opportunity for a key position to participate as one of the primarily operations facing financial resource at the company. LAZ operates with a centralized finance function handling the corporate financials, client reporting, AR, AP, Payroll, and more, however the needs of the operations teams require local financial expertise. This expertise is provided by our 7 regional controllers nation wide who help operations to navigate daily business deals, help push forward strategic financial initiatives, track KPIs, perform financial analysis, and more.

This position was created to help provide strategic leadership to this talented group of controllers across the county bringing a united approach to their responsibilities, coaching and support, KPIs, business analytics, and more. This position will have aggressive strategic goals to drive key financial metrics in the regions, ensure validity and accuracy of financial information, and track the health of the business across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight, support, and development of our regional controllers nationwide.
• Set strategic initiatives and unified goals for the regional controller group
• Enable best in class AR review practices across the regions and work with regional controller group to provide actionable information to operations teams
• Coordination and shared oversight of the field bookkeeping teams
• Working with BD to ensure accuracy, compliance, and maximize value of new deals
• Facilitate the budget process through the regional controllers within each region
• Facilitate the client budget process through the regional controllers within each region
• Develop and track KPIs across the country to track financial health
• Participate in the closing process across all regions and help to define and standardize the support from regional controllers within each region
• Analyze major variances to budget and provide standardized template to track across regions
• Help to facilitate the proper communications between home office, regional controllers, and regional operations teams
• Drive compliance with CAPEX processes and ensure understanding exists amounts operations teams and regional controllers
• Identify control gaps or areas of risks and mitigating controls to put in place nationwide to address these risks
• Assist in Ad hoc financial requests by SVPs, Presidents, and Home Office and help to empower regional controllers to utilize all of the tools available at LAZ to address these requests
• Provide support for new projects or initiatives being deployed with the region from a financial perspective
• Ensure consistent new location processes and procedures exist across all regions and they are adhered to by regional controllers and operations team
• Ensure consistent closed location processes and procedures exist across all regions and they are adhered to by regional controllers and operations team
• Utilize LAZ data to perform analytics and develop key insights over regional performance.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in financial analysis or financial operations.
• 5+ years experience in a manager role
• Private sector accounting and analysis experience a plus

Education:

• BA/BS Degree in Accounting or other Business discipline or equivalent work experience

Required Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualified disabilities to perform the essential duties/functions.

FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT

LAZ Parking is an equal opportunity employer. In all our employment practices, including hiring, we are firmly committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetics, Vietnam era, special disabled, recently separated and other protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. No question in our application process is used for the process of limiting or excluding any applicant's consideration for employment on such grounds.

LAZ Parking participates in E-Verify.