Financial Planning & Analysis Manager – Americas Division

About the role

To support the teams working on our exciting projects, we are looking for Financial Planning & Analysis Manager – Americas Division In the United States - Boston At Simon-Kucher, our vision is to become the world's leading growth specialist. We are a global management consulting firm that specializes in strategy, marketing, pricing, and sales. We help companies optimize their commercial strategies and achieve profitable growth. With 40 years of experience, we have a strong track record of delivering tangible results for our clients across various industries. Our division includes industry practices in Consumer, Financial Services, Industrials, Technology, Media & Telecom. Our North American Region teams are based in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Toronto. We value the expertise and perspectives each of our diverse colleagues brings to the table and encourage collaboration across offices and disciplines. At Simon-Kucher, our Central Functions teams are strategic partners to the business, helping create the conditions for our people, clients, and firm to succeed. Across Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, IT, Legal, and other corporate functions, these teams bring deep expertise, commercial thinking, and a global perspective to the way we operate. You’ll work alongside colleagues and leaders across the firm, contributing to high-impact initiatives, improving how we work, and helping shape the infrastructure that supports our continued growth. It’s an opportunity to make a visible impact within a collaborative, high-performing, and international environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day financial guidance to divisional and country stakeholders and act as a trusted finance contact for the assigned scope.
• Manage FP&A deliverables for the assigned scope, ensuring accurate, timely, and decision-relevant planning and performance information.
• Challenge assumptions constructively, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend practical actions; escalate material risks when required.
• Manage divisional budget and forecast cycles by coordinating inputs, maintaining planning models, validating assumptions, and consolidating submissions.
• Support planning discussions with Division, Sector, and Country leaders and explain key performance trends, sensitivities, and forecast movements.
• Develop scenario analyses and financial models for business cases, cost initiatives, resource decisions, and other assigned priorities.
• Prepare weekly and monthly financial reporting, compare actuals against budget and forecast, and provide clear variance explanations.
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards covering revenue, cost, profitability, project performance, and other relevant country or divisional metrics.
• Analyze financial and operational data to identify key drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities and present concise conclusions to management.
• Support sales pipeline tracking and revenue forecasting to improve visibility, consistency, and forecast accuracy.
• Partner with business development and delivery teams on proposal planning, pricing analyses, commercial evaluations, and profitability assessments.
• Monitor client project performance against budgets and timelines, including profitability, margin, resource utilization, and variance analysis.
• Provide structured progress reporting and work with project leaders to identify financial risks and improve project outcomes.
• Identify and implement improvements in reporting, forecasting, data quality, and recurring finance processes to increase accuracy, efficiency, and transparency.
• Lead small finance projects or workstreams, define deliverables and timelines, coordinate stakeholders, and capture key learnings.
• Collaborate with regional and international finance teams to apply common standards, strengthen file and data structures, and share best practices.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Senior Payroll & Benefits Coordinator.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, customer service, and operational excellence.
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