Log In
Sign Up
The Commnet Broadband Finance team performs finance operations and financial analysis to support the mission of Commnet Broadband (and affiliated companies) – bringing coverage and faster fiber connections to more communities and partners, facilitating a better and more connected future for everyone. We enable complex transactions, manage P&Ls, and provide analytics on the business. We are constantly striving for process excellence and using our financial expertise to drive critical business decisions.
The Director, Financial Operations will be project managing a series of strategic initiatives to improve processes and systems as well as lead programs, consult stakeholders, build requirements documentation, and design future state systems. In addition, the Finance Program Manager will engage in process excellence initiatives with the finance team to reduce churn and enhance controls. This role will drive critical automation activities that allows us to scale.
Successful candidates will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing through ambiguity and complexity, and demonstrate and ability to support multiple, simultaneous, project launches at any one time. Candidates are also expected to have sufficient finance experience to help the project launch team identify and incorporate the necessary financial reporting and internal control elements into the systems or tools that are developed to support new business activities.
This position is hybrid, with a minimum of two days per week in the Castle Rock, CO office.
Duties and Responsibilities (include but not limited to)
Designs and develops finance programs utilizing project management disciplines.
Ensures successful project delivery that is in line with the broader goals and objectives of the program.
Identifies organizational change management impacts.
Provides successful oversight of execution activities to ensure program adoption and adherence.
Provides the processes and tools needed by teams across all programs enabling successful program implementation and delivery.
Consult stakeholders, build requirements, design process flows, and track status
Analyze existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and drive projects that result in measurable outcomes
Drive these projects from definition, planning, execution, and change management through standardized project management approaches, working in partnership with various functional and technical teams
Ensures regulatory and compliance policy is adhered to in the programs and related operational risks are explicitly considered and managed in their implementation.
Produces effective progress reports and communication mechanisms for the program to keep senior leadership appraised of the status, major risks and issues, scope changes, budgets, headcount and milestone achievements or misses, including leadership of restructuring costs and transition to the SSC’s.Manages resource allocations and profiles across programs and teams ensuring appropriate resources are adequately distributed.
Provides a governance structure around the program. Ensures accountability and enables the predictability of the outcomes of each initiative.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
8+ years of experience in finance; 5+ years of experience in operations / Project Management role
Ability to think tactically, strategically, and creatively having sophisticated interpersonal skills; Develops good relationships with business partners
Ability to understand financial drivers and outcomes in the business and explain these to non-financial colleagues
Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to influence key decision makers and to achieve results by effectively collaborating with key stakeholders through transparency, partnership, and predictability
Goal-oriented results driven self-starter with a strong desire to see tasks through to completion. Realistic and pragmatic approach to objectives
Resilient and the ability to work independently to deliver results
Must demonstrate customer focus (internal and external), attention to detail, flexibility, command skills, ability to deal with ambiguity, and be a team player
Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in telecommunications industry
MBA
CPA
About the Company:
Commnet has been the backbone of rural networks in the United States for decades. We enable or directly deliver high-quality broadband communications services to Tribal Communities and Rural America, driving digital inclusion and providing access to education, work, healthcare, safety, entertainment, and community connectivity. If you have visited the rural west, it is most likely that you have roamed on a wireless segment of our network. If you have needed healthcare or emergency services in these areas, your data likely moved across our fiber. If you know any children or college students studying for a brighter future, we are the network team running connections behind the scenes to support their education. Through the power of partnerships, we enhance the effectiveness of our efforts. Working with local stakeholders means better service to tribal communities, rural telecommunication companies, organizations, and government agencies. Commnet works to enhance the lives of real people through any available avenue we can find. With an eye on the future, Commnet is bringing coverage and faster fiber connections to more communities and partners, facilitating a better and more connected future for everyone.
Compensation & Benefits:
Hiring Compensation Range: $160,000 – $195,000 (compensation determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.) This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus.
Benefits: Commnet is proud to offer a comprehensive suite of benefits to all regular full-time positions (hourly & salaried) to promote overall health, wellness, and financial security for you and your family. Benefits include health, vision, dental, HSA/FSA, life and AD&D, short/long term disability coverage, Parental Leave, emergency travel assistance, 401k, and remote/hybrid work benefit. All employees also get access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which includes services such as 100% confidential counseling, financial information/resources, legal support, and general wellness issues.
**A Note to Agencies** All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Commnet Broadband (the Company) via email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of the Company, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by the Company for this position and a valid agreement with the Company is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the Company agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.
