Our Client has been recognized as a Fortune 200 company and consistently ranked among the top employers in the United States.
A Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager helps a company understand its financial health and plan for the future. They analyze data, build forecasts, and create reports and dashboards that show where the company is making or spending money. This helps leaders make smart business decisions. They also look for ways to improve and automate financial processes, and they help train and guide junior team members.
Your Responsibilities on the Team
Develop and analyze forecasts. Work with internal and external teams on simplification, coordination of data, and automation. Transform how we develop financial analysis information and reports to provide accurate and timely recommendations to management for decision making purposes and to support strategic initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret complex financial data and turn it into actionable insights for business decision-making.
- Experience with database structure systems and data mining.
- Develop reports and dashboards for use in forecasting short- and long-term trends, as well as to provide information for strategic decision making. Creation of clear and visually appealing work product that connects the dots is a must.
- Participate in the weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast process, providing both detailed and high-level analysis for support to Senior Leadership Team.
- Work within multiple teams toward automation of process (FPA, Treasury, Accounting, Technology), as well as creating proper checks and reviews.
- Reviews past and current financial performance against current estimates and develop models that assist management in understanding the financial impact of business decisions.
- Strong knowledge of financial modeling and GAAP accounting.
- Ability to work on many projects at once.
- Manage and develop more junior team members, including detailed review of work product before it goes to more senior associates.
- Assist with the ad-hoc analysis requests as well as process automation/reporting improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- 4+ years' experience in Finance / Accounting / Investment Banking / Consulting.
- Experience with spreadsheet modeling, presentations, Databases, cross team coordination.
- CPA/MBA preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Hyperion/Essbase, and SAP S/4 HANA.
- Detail-orientated to ensure accuracy in analysis and presentations.
- Ability to formulate effective and efficient work plans (focusing on relevant variables) for analysis projects as well as to identify key areas of reporting improvement.
- Experience guiding and developing staff.
High initiative and ability to learn independently in a fast-paced environment and perform with minimal supervision through ambiguity and complexity.