Job Description
Position Overview
The Senior Corporate Service Manager is a strategic leader overseeing all operations across the company’s U.S. and Canadian entities. This direct hire position ensures operational excellence, compliance, and financial integrity across accounting, taxation, HR, licensing, insurance, and general administration.
Reporting to executive leadership, this role provides vital support to the engineering and construction divisions, enabling the success of complex industrial and infrastructure projects through strong corporate governance, financial control, and team leadership.
Business Scope
The company executes a wide range of industrial, construction, and infrastructure projects, including:
- Tall Structures: Steel and concrete chimneys, solar towers, cooling towers
- Storage: Domes, silos, tanks, and pressure vessels
- Civil Works: Large-scale demolition, slipform, and foundation construction
- Refractory, Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance
- Automation: Design and assembly of robotic and automotive production lines
- Industrial Logistics & Process Digitalization
- Energy Projects: Wind, gas, fiber optic networks, and EV charging systems
- Preservation and Restoration of historic and landmark buildings
Key Responsibilities - Design, oversee, and manage the company's overall budget and detailed budgets for each project (cost control), ensuring projects stay within spending limits.
- Lead and supervise the staff of the finance and administration teams, including tasks such as payroll processing, payments to suppliers, issuance of invoices and insurance contracting.
- Monitor and maintain the company's liquidity to meet short-term obligations.
- Manage tax compliance at the federal, state, provincial, and local levels for the U.S. and Canada.
- Generate accurate and timely internal and external financial reports, ensuring compliance with U.S. and Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
- Manage the financial and compliance aspects of contracts with subcontractors and clients.
- Ensure that all economic activities and financial information comply with U.S. local, state, and federal regulations (taxes, building laws, etc.). Act as a liaison with internal and external auditors
- Supervise and develop support staff, ensuring high performance and professional growth.
- Provide strategic advice to senior management on administrative, financial, and HR matters.
- Drive process improvements, digital transformation and operational excellence across all support functions.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field (Master's preferred).
- Minimum 7-10 years of progressive experience in accounting, tax, and HR. Ideally, but not mandatory, in industrial construction or a related sector.
- Strong knowledge of US and Canadian labor, tax, insurance and compliance regulations.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ERP/accounting systems.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Experience managing cross-border teams and operations is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Fluent in English (mother tongue or similar level). Spanish will be a very well-considered plus.
Proposal of Remuneration - Base Salary: $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year (Buffalo, NY market, adjusted for experience and company size).
- Bonus: Performance-based annual bonus (35,000-45,000 USD per year).
- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance (single to family coverage) with a 25% employee contribution and 75% company; 401(k) with 10% company contribution; paid time off (4 weeks); Life insurance (30 K$)
Job Tags
Temporary work, For subcontractor, Local area,