Financial Planning and Analysis - Manager

The Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis is a strategic thought-partner, reporting to the Controller and is responsible for building and ensuring critical support to the senior leadership.

This position will focus on creating / building financials tools, reporting mechanisms, business modeling, and financial planning processes (budgeting and forecasting) that will effectively scale with our growth.

This person will possess superior financial reporting, planning, and modeling skills, as well as razor-sharp business acumen.

The role also requires the ability to understand the big picture, while being very detail oriented. The successful candidate will be a collaborative business partner, communicate clearly, and juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This role supports and provides critical analyses and insights to help drive business decisions in a dynamic and fluid organization.

Our Core Values : TRAITS

Trust, Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Teamwork, and Safety.

Essential Functions :

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Prepare financial plans (budgets) & forecasts including monthly / quarterly projections, annual operating business plan and line of business budgets.
• Administer and provide management variance analysis for company planning, forecasting, and reporting including all dashboard, operating and board reporting packages.
• Organize and evaluate quantitative data to identify and explain trends, problems, and root causes.
• Work cross-functionally to create visibility into project and company financial performance and understand key operational metrics within the organization to recommend new opportunities and risks.
• Support internal and external financial and management reporting.
• Review and monitor the projects financial performance results including project profitability, project cash flow, project risk profile to ensure the health and wealth situation of the project result.
• Work with Operating Company leadership to balance budgets and manage cost forecasts.
• Work with Operating Company leadership on management of change issues on projects.
• Direct the process for the bottoms-up development of annual budget, resource planning analysis, and rolling forecast updates.
• Support and assist department leadership in achieving stated targets and standards for financial performance.
• Make recommendations as changes occur in business drivers, reporting requirements, and organization structures. Understand the implications on the overall company business model.

Assist with ad-hoc modeling and analysis.

Success Factors :

• Expert with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills
• Functions well under pressure; consistently pays attention to accuracy and quality of work
• Sense of Urgency : Prioritizes well, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, and meets deadlines, creative problem-solver.
• Experience in driving the strategic, financial analysis and evaluation of potential M&A activity highly desirable.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with strong team building skills.
• Experience as a strategic thinker that can effectively translate strategies into financial plans.
• Has a proactive and constructive style of engagement with business leaders to earn credibility as a finance partner who adds value and helps drive business results.
• Broad business acumen and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, with the ability to effectively manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• A self-directed leader able to adapt quickly to changes in priorities.
• Roll-up-the-sleeves attitude and a hands-on approach.
• Experience with financial statement analysis, a strong understanding of corporate finance concepts and a solid understanding of U.S. GAAP
• Experience with ERP and / or budgeting preferred
• Knowledge of reconciling general ledgers accounts
• Financial statement preparation and reconciliations
• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy under time constraints
• Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning company financial data
• Strong interpersonal skills and solid team working abilities
• Sound work ethics and flexibility
• Strong decision making and analytical thinking ability
• Complete knowledge of Microsoft Office and experience with enterprise accounting software
• Salary will be commensurate with experience. A comprehensive benefits package including paid time off is offered with this position.

Experience and Education :

• Bachelor's in Finance / related field or equivalent experience required, MBA highly preferred
• 7-10 years Corporate FP&A experience with 3-5 years of Management experience
• MBA highly preferred

Additional Requirements / Licenses / Certifications :

• Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid State of Residence Driver's License is required within two weeks of employment.
• Candidates must pass criminal and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) background checks and pass a pre-employment drug screen.

Notes :

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.