Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
The Finance Manager/Client Portfolio Controller North America is accountable for financial performance, control, and cash outcomes across a defined portfolio of clients and projects within North America. This role ensures that client growth is delivered profitably, as sold, and with strong billing and working-capital discipline. Acting as the primary finance partner to Account Executives, CST Leads, and Delivery teams, this role leads Project Controllers, Accountants, and Billers to embed financial discipline into delivery.
Role accountabilities:
- Own financial performance across the assigned client portfolio, including revenue, margin, backlog, cash (DRO), and cost outcomes.
- Ensure projects are delivered in line with “As Sold” commercial assumptions, escalating risks and deviations early.
- Monitor and explain portfolio-level variances versus plan and forecast.
- Partner with Account Executives and CST Leads to support profitable client growth and portfolio expansion.
- Provide financial insight into client-level growth opportunities, service mix decisions, and pricing strategy.
- Support bids, renewals, and extensions by ensuring financial viability, margin protection, and clear commercial terms.
- Partner with Account Executives and CST Leads to support profitable client growth and portfolio expansion.
- Provide financial insight into client-level growth opportunities, service mix decisions, and pricing strategy.
- Support bids, renewals, and extensions by ensuring financial viability, margin protection, and clear commercial terms.
- Lead and develop Project Controllers, Accountants, and Billers supporting the client portfolio.
- Set clear expectations for forecast quality, billing timeliness, and project financial hygiene.
- Ensure consistent ways of working and adherence to Finance standards across the team.
- Act as the escalation point for client-level financial risks, disputes, and delivery issues.
- Partner with Commercial Operations and Sector Finance on contractual risk, recovery actions, and project interventions.
- Ensure compliance with Finance policies, controls, and accounting requirements (with IFRS ownership retained by Accounting).
Qualifications & Experience:
- Extensive leadership experience in finance within the architecture, engineering, construction or related capital-intensive industries in North America, with clear accountability for financial performance and analysis at portfolio or business-unit level.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including understanding of pricing, cost of sales, client NOI and margin, and using these to support client portfolio growth and expansion.
- Significant experience in managing client portfolio financial performance, reporting and analysis, including the day-to-day financial governance of client projects.
- Demonstrated experience providing oversight of Major projects performance, Billing discipline, WIP management, and DRO escalation for assigned clients.
- Strong understanding of financial control frameworks, internal controls and compliance, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in line with accounting standards and company policies.
- Ability to clearly communicate the outputs of financial modelling and analysis to senior stakeholders, to inform Industry strategy and financial planning.
- Proven ability to lead and develop finance teams, setting clear expectations, building succession and fostering a high-performance, client-focused culture.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with the senior leadership team to achieve business outcomes.
- Leadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.
- Degree level education in finance, accounting, economics, business or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional qualification(s) such as CPA, CA, ACCA or an advanced degree (e.g., MBA or master’s in finance) preferred, or equivalent senior-level experience in complex, global organizations.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $92,160 - $128,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
Skills Required
- Extensive finance leadership experience in architecture, engineering, construction, or related capital-intensive industries in North America
- Accountability for financial performance and analysis at portfolio or business-unit level
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including pricing, cost of sales, client NOI, and margin
- Significant experience managing client portfolio financial performance, reporting, analysis, and project financial governance
- Experience overseeing major project performance, billing discipline, WIP management, and DRO escalation
- Strong understanding of financial control frameworks, internal controls, compliance, accounting standards, and company policies
- Ability to communicate financial modeling and analysis to senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to lead and develop finance teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- CPA, CA, ACCA, MBA, or master's degree in finance, or equivalent senior-level experience in complex global organizations
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
