Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Title: Senior Manager, FP&A 

Department: Finance 

Reports To: Director, FP&A 

Location: South San Francisco, CA or Princeton, NJ (preferred) – On-site 4 days per week (Mon to Thurs) 

Job Overview  

The Senior Manager, FP&A will play a critical leadership role in driving the company’s financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management activities. This position serves as a strategic business partner to cross-functional leaders, providing financial insights and recommendations that support decision-making, resource allocation, and achievement of business objectives. The role is responsible for leading the budgeting and forecasting processes, overseeing financial performance analysis, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting and planning activities, and continuously enhancing FP&A processes and tools to improve the quality, reliability, and relevance of financial information across the organization.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

• Own and lead the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting processes   

• Lead financial performance tracking, including variance analysis and business metric reporting  

• Provide clear, concise, and insight-driven commentary on financial results  

• Identify key drivers of performance and recommend corrective actions where needed  

• Own FP&A aspects of the close process, ensuring completeness & accuracy of expenses  

• Partner with accounting teams to ensure alignment between reporting and planning  

• Ensure adherence to financial calendars and reporting timelines  

• Improve existing processes to improve reliability and relevance of financial information  

• Own and lead the end-to-end annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, business strategies, and financial targets.   

• Lead financial performance tracking and reporting activities, including detailed variance analysis, KPI monitoring, trend analysis, and development of business performance dashboards to support management decision-making.