Principal Specialist, FP&A Operations

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The Principal Specialist, FP&A Operations is a critical role within the Global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. This individual serves as an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for strengthening our financial planning infrastructure and driving operational excellence across our monthly business rhythm. The role is pivotal in ensuring seamless coordination of planning cycles, reporting deliverables, and system interfaces, while acting as a key liaison to various FP&A teams, business stakeholders, and our parent company in Japan.

At a global level, the Principal Specialist leads initiatives to optimize FP&A operations, including the development and implementation of standardized processes, tools, and reporting frameworks that support strategic decision-making. This role partners closely with regional and functional FP&A teams to ensure alignment across planning activities, forecast accuracy, and performance tracking. The Principal Specialist also plays a key role in managing system integrations and enhancements, ensuring data consistency and reliability across platforms.

The Principal Specialist fosters a collaborative and innovative team culture, dedicated to achieving operational excellence and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the FP&A function.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the end-to-end FP&A global process, providing strategic direction to define, build, and deploy process strategy to drive operational excellence
• Develop, implement, and maintain standardized FP&A processes, methodologies, and best practices across all FP&A teams
• Ensure consistent application of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes throughout the organization
• Establish, update and enforce global FP&A policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Strategic Process Improvement and Optimization
• Continuously evaluate and optimize FP&A processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and alignment with strategic business objectives
• Identify and implement opportunities for process automation, AI opportunities, streamlining, and integration of technology solutions
• Collaborate with FP&A leadership and teams to gather feedback and implement ongoing process improvements
• Taking the lead in solving complex, strategic issues facing our business
• Performs other duties and adhoc analytics as assigned
•   Support the process of updating and/or enhance reporting templates and tools to capture critical financial assumptions
•  Participate in user testing to deploy system enhancements across key financial planning platforms
•  (double, see above)Collaborate with Global FP&A team to support transition to global FP&A structure
• Prepare visual financial analysis presentations in power point for upper management
• Operational Excellence: Lead and coordinate the monthly Rhythm of Business (ROB), including planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.
• System Ownership: Oversee and optimize financial systems and data flows (DWH, Planning Tools, ERP interfaces), ensuring data integrity and usability.
• Template & Process Governance: Manage and continuously improve working templates (Q&A, Forecasts, R/O, Lists etc.) used across FP&A processes.
• Presentation & Communication: Own the creation and refinement of executive-level presentations (e.g., Board slides), including commentary and visual storytelling.
• Project Leadership: Support or lead strategic FP&A projects such as benchmarking, competitor analysis, and performance deep-dives.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders and our Japanese parent company for FP&A-related topics, ensuring alignment and timely communication
• Take responsibility in our FP&A team: Collaborate and support our FP&A teams to overall improve our process excellence
• Performs other duties as assigned from time to time.

KNOWLEDGE & ATTRIBUTES

• Proven experience in FP&A, controlling, or financial systems management
• Business acumen demonstrated by the knowledge and understanding necessary to address a wide range of business strategies, challenges, and opportunities.
• Strong understanding of planning processes and financial systems
• Displays a cohesive ability at interpersonal and communication skills, both verbally and written.