Sr. Manager, Corporate FP&A

POSITION SUMMARY 

The Sr. Manager, Corporate FP&A supports the VP Finance Operations and senior leadership by helping to increase the company’s efficiency and profitability through the development of financial plans. This role assists with budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, focusing on analysis and recommendations for business improvements.

Additional responsibilities include the finance partnership to the corporate functions. Partnering with the client groups this role will set the strategic course for the business and define how the annual goals will be accomplished. They are responsible for budgeting, modeling, forecasting, and reporting on business/regional results that will be used in financial decision making. They will monitor actual financial performance, compare budget, and forecast projections, analyze, and interpret variances, identify counter measures, and provide recommendations as needed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties outlined below. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

PLANNING & FORECASTING: Develops, enhances, and maintains planning and budgeting processes. Continuously improves the reliability of planning and forecasting processes. Lead key processes for specific areas of planning and forecasting. Develops new models and tools. Drive and lead effective communication process with key stakeholders and business partners to ensure that budgets and monthly/quarterly analyses are accurate, complete, and timely; implement corporate initiatives, including changes in reporting requirements.

Prepares financial reports including analysis and interpretation of financial position with respect to profits, trends, costs and makes recommendations to the CFO, Management Team, and Board of Directors. Directs studies including presentation of findings and recommendations affecting the business’ financial status including the exploration of financial impacts of future business opportunities.

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS: Provides accurate and timely financial analyses, communication, ongoing monitoring, and evaluation to the enterprise to aid in decision-making to improve financial performance.

Designs, develops, and utilizes sophisticated financial models. Leads complex analyses for enterprise scale projects. Benchmarks and monitors financial targets and metrics against external data. Proactive find opportunities to improve processes and provide ad-hoc analyses for senior management.

FINANCE PARTNER: Serve as a trusted finance business partner to senior leader at an executive level for the corporate functions. Advises and steers business decisions regarding financial impact and overall business health.

Build strong relationships with the clients’ senior leadership and the rest of the team to act as a trusted financial advisor. Lead and prepare the annual financial budget, recurring forecast and the long-range financial plan and recommend courses of action to achieve business team goals and to ensure profitable operations consistent with sound business management. Drive scenario analysis and pressure test assumptions for reasonableness. Challenge the leadership team on forecast revenue, cost and working capital performance. Assess risks and opportunities versus annual targets.

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE:  Analyze business performance, create insights, and drive action to continuously improve the business. Create action plans and dashboards for business team and executive leadership. Develop, recommend, and implement business performance improvement initiatives to measurably enhance business profitability and working capital levels.

MASTER DATA AND REPORTING:  Lead as a subject matter expert and governance leader on end-to-end plan to Forecast process, supporting financial planning, reporting and analytical processes, data and solutions. Develop and standardize financial reports and master data entry.

TECHNOLOGY: Selecting, managing, and utilizing systems and tools to facilitate accurate and reliable knowledge capture, organization, tracking, and reporting of data. Super User - Completes more detailed maintenance. Provides guidance and backup. Makes decisions and sets improvement and business application strategies; keeps up to date on system technologies.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Lead a team of managers and analysts responsible for awards analysis, ad-hoc data report requests, department monthly financial analysis, commissions processing, and rec