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Base pay range
$140,700.00/yr - $219,800.00/yr
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
The Joint Venture Director leads financial oversight and business partnering across our growing joint venture portfolio. This senior role is accountable for delivering rigorous financial governance, accurate reporting, and insightful analysis, while shaping and executing a strategic vision to enhance joint venture performance and governance. You will directly manage a small team of direct reports and provide leadership, guidance, and performance direction to a broader matrixed team of project controllers embedded within joint venture and regional project teams. Operating with a high degree of ownership, you will oversee the largest and most complex joint ventures in the portfolio, serving as the primary finance partner to joint venture boards, senior operational leaders, and external partners. You will be expected to anticipate challenges, navigate complexity, and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes with minimal oversight.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct leadership to your immediate team, including performance management, coaching, development, and workload prioritization.
- Provide matrix leadership to a JV community of practice — including project controls, project accounting, JV project teams, and finance managers — ensuring consistent standards, aligned priorities, and coordinated delivery across geographies.
- Serve as the key finance contact for JV boards, partners, and internal senior leadership, in close partnership with regional finance directors.
- Build strong relationships with geographic financial managers, operational leaders, and corporate functions to resolve complex issues and align on priorities.
- Conduct a gap analysis of current JV processes versus future vision, develop a business case for change (including resource requirements), and secure senior leadership approval for implementation.
- Lead process and technology improvements as structured initiatives, with clear milestones and regular SteerCo engagement.
Financial Reporting
- Lead month-end close financial reviews, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely escalation of issues.
- Oversee EAC/RevRec processes for active JVs, ensuring accurate and timely revenue recognition.
- Review monthly financial statements for active JVs prepared by the corporate accounting JV team.
- Direct and review variance analysis, explaining deviations from budget/forecast, driving corrective actions, and sharing results with JV project teams and regional finance managers.
- Partner with the corporate JV accounting team to prepare reporting that reflects Jacobs’ bottom-line impact, considering consolidation method, affiliate project performance, and intercompany eliminations.
- Manage the JV portfolio as a shadow P&L across BI Americas, providing portfolio reporting to leadership.
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Lead the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes for key JVs, challenging assumptions, securing approvals, and ensuring timely submission of forecasts and supporting materials to geographic financial managers.
- Partner with operational and finance leaders to ensure budgets and forecasts are realistic, risk-adjusted, and aligned to operational delivery plans.
Joint Venture Governance & Compliance
- Serve as the accountable lead for JV agreements, amendments, and questionnaires, partnering closely with Legal, Tax, and FM/Ops to establish and share best practices.
- Ensure compliance with JV governance requirements, including MoM-QoQ reconciliations, SOX controls, partner reporting obligations, and audit readiness.
- Oversee preparation of financial materials for JV board meetings, ensuring consistent, clear communication of performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Maintain the JV master list, ensuring timely updates to agreements, signatories, and compliance records.
Treasury & Cash Management
- Direct cash flow analysis and oversee partner distributions and capital calls.
- Promote best practices in cash collections, AP/AR processes, and DSO/WIP management to optimize working capital.
- Entity & Project Setup / Change Management
- Oversee smooth execution of JV set-up and dissolution processes, collaborating with all relevant stakeholders.
What you’ll need
- Senior-level experience in financial management, ideally in joint ventures or complex multi-entity environments.
- Proven ability to operate strategically and tactically, managing ambiguity and delivering results in high-pressure environments.
- Strong people leadership skills, with experience managing both direct reports and broader matrixed teams across regions.
- Deep expertise in financial analysis, business planning, and accounting; expert-level Excel and ERP (Oracle) skills, with Power BI or similar a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change across organizational boundaries.
- Strong communication skills, with the gravitas to present complex information clearly to senior leadership and external partners.
- Proven track record of delivering measurable performance improvements through process optimization and enhanced governance.
Director-Level Expectations
- Operate with broad latitude and autonomy, making high-impact decisions.
- Anticipate and resolve complex problems with significant business implications.
- Lead multiple teams or a portfolio of activities, aligning resources with strategic priorities.
- Serve as a role model for inclusive, inspirational leadership.
- Demonstrate full ownership of your scope and related areas, with accountability for results.
The base salary range for this position is $140,700.00 to $219,800.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on September 08, 2025. This position will be open for at least 3 days.
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Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other, Information Technology, and Management
Industries
Civil Engineering, Design Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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