Regional Financial Controller

Overview

Exciting opportunity to join Arcwood Environmental, a leader in industrial waste management. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Arcwood Environmental is a growing organization with a diverse team delivering innovative and compliant solutions to clients across multiple industries.

Why Arcwood?

• Impactful Work:
  Our services range from hazardous waste management and emergency response to onsite support and technical solutions. We do not generate our own waste; we solve our customers’ waste challenges.
• Growth Opportunities:
  We value continuous learning and provide opportunities to expand skills and take on new challenges.
• Safety First:
  We prioritize health and safety with a culture of Safe and Compliant, Always.
• Collaborative Environment: A supportive and dynamic team where ideas and efforts are recognized and rewarded.

Our Commitment:
We foster an inclusive and innovative workplace where every employee can thrive and contribute their expertise to protect the environment.

Our Vision:
We strive to be the most trusted partner in environmental services, delivering agile, sustainable, and innovative solutions while nurturing top talent and creating lasting value for customers, shareholders, communities, and the planet.

Our Ownership:
Arcwood Environmental is backed by the EQT Infrastructure VI fund, enhancing our capabilities and expanding our reach. EQT is a global investment firm managing substantial assets and supporting leading companies across regions.

As a Regional Financial Controller you will serve as a strategic partner to operations and plant leadership, leading financial planning, analysis, and reporting across multiple locations. This role maintains effective cost accounting systems, ensures accurate standard costing, drives capital investment analysis, and aligns financial forecasts with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, operational expertise, and a proactive approach to process improvement and strategic decision support.

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies and maintaining safe practices at all times
• Serves as the primary financial advisor to plant managers and regional leadership, offering insights that drive operational performance
• Collaborates with plant and location leadership to develop budgets, forecast financial outcomes, and support strategic decision‑making
• Translates complex financial data into actionable business intelligence to improve production efficiency and cost management
• Maintains and analyzes standard costing systems; performs variance analysis to support cost control and margin improvement
• Evaluates capital expenditures using ROI, NPV, and other financial metrics to support data‑driven investment decisions
• Collaborates with operations to identify and implement cost‑saving initiatives and process improvements
• Leads the development of rolling forecasts and annual budgets in partnership with operations
• Oversees and coordinates the month‑end close process for multiple locations and plants, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal controls
• Tracks and reports KPIs to measure progress toward the 5‑year Full Potential Plan, providing insights to leadership
• Maintains ability to travel to other locations as needed (up to 15%)
• Takes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field (required)

• 8+ years of progressive accounting and financial management experience (required)
• 5+ years in a leadership role (required)
• Demonstrated experience with standard costing, cost analysis, expense control, and financial planning (required)
• Proven experience partnering with key stakeholders (required)
• Experience managing complex projects in a dynamic environment (required)

• Accuracy of standard costing and variance analysis with targets for variance reduction
• Expense management and cost savings as a percentage of overall production costs
• Timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting
• Quality of cost analytics and insights impacting operational improvements
• Bus…