Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (In-Office, Southlake, TX)

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a FP&A Manager to support the development and achievement of the organization's goals and objectives by providing accurate, insightful and timely finance support, planning and analysis. This individual will be responsible for working with a team of Financial Analysts who are responsible for analyzing and presenting financial performance metrics, supporting the delivery of key departmental initiatives and communicating monthly business results against agreed performance targets to the Finance Leadership team. The individual will also play a key role in the annual operating planning process.  S/he will provide financial consulting and strategic support to corporate leadership, including identifying, researching, analyzing and presenting critical business drivers, trends and project-level analysis.

This will be an in-office position to be based in the Dallas/Southlake, TX area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides guidance to employees within the latitude of established policies.
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization.
• Establishes operational objectives and work plans.
• Reviews objectives to determine success of operation. 
• Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives. Implements strategic policies when selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Manages activities of two or more groups or departments through subordinate staff who exercise full supervision in terms of costs, methods, and staffing. In some instances, may be responsible for managing staff function and may not have subordinate managers.
• Prepare annual operating budgets in coordination with leadership and budget owners; analyze variances in actual vs planned results.
• Provide budget and financial forecasting services for multiple projects and business lines.
• Provide timely accounting for expenditures and manage overhead expenses.
• Prepare monthly and ad-hoc financial information and business line forecasts.
• Monitor department finances and escalate concerns timely to associated management personnel, including financial risk and sensitivity analysis.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or related degree plus 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• High proficiency within Excel
• Experience with a planning/budgeting analytics tool, such as TM1
• Experience within a large, similarly complex organization

Preferred Qualifications :

• Strong capabilities in and knowledge of business analytics tools.  Experience with Cognos, TM1, Oracle, eProcurement systems and Hyperion a plus
• Very strong quantitative and analytical skills and the ability to interpret financial data, including financial statements, key financial ratios, valuation models and techniques
• High proficiency in PowerPoint and advanced Excel; experience involving extensive work with complex spreadsheets
• Strong organizational skills - ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Outstanding oral communication, written and presentation skills
• Solid business acumen and ability to convey complex concepts
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and work successfully both independently and in a team.

Additional Information

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship for US work authorization is not available for this position, now or in the future

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