FP&A Manager

Job Description

This role serves as a key finance partner to the business unit, helping shape performance through rigorous financial insight, disciplined planning, and close partnership with operational and commercial leaders. The position is responsible for supporting a broad and often complex portfolio of financial activities spanning profit and loss analysis, balance sheet stewardship, forecasting, budgeting, month-end close support, and targeted ad hoc analysis designed to improve financial performance and decision quality.

Responsibilities

• Operational Finance Leadership:
  • Lead the month-end close, forecast, and annual budget processes for business unit functional overheads, ensuring timely, accurate, and decision-useful outputs
  • Maintain monthly business unit overhead analysis, including headcount and expense reporting, to support visibility, accountability, and informed resource decisions
  • Conduct complex ad hoc analysis on business unit cost structures, organizational design, and operational performance drivers to inform leadership decisions
  • Oversee the monthly close process, including standard journal entries and reconciliations, with a strong focus on accuracy, control, and timeliness
  • Manage bonus accruals and support the calculation and payout process for business unit incentive programs
  • Monitor the business unit balance sheet, with particular emphasis on working capital, to support cash flow analysis, year-to-go projections, and annual planning
  • Prepare, track, and report on capital purchase requests for business unit overheads and central activities
  • Manage the monthly balance sheet reconciliation process for the business unit, including coordination of system setup and change requests where needed
  • Develop and support business case analysis and cost-of-change assessments to inform investment and operating decisions
  • Manage and report on controllable expenses, highlighting risks, opportunities, and performance trends for leadership review
• Commercial Partnership and Business Support:
  • Partner with Business Development and Operations to provide financial insight for growth opportunities, pipeline performance, contract renewals, and strategic business initiatives
  • Lead new business forecasting and support the annual budgeting process for pipeline and growth initiatives
  • Maintain a strong understanding of commercial negotiations related to new business, renewals, and significant changes in contract terms, and assess implications for budget and incentive performance
  • Review site-level working capital positions, particularly accounts receivable, and help resolve collection issues that may affect financial performance
• Performance Reporting and Insight:
  • Reconcile and validate data across multiple systems and reporting sources to ensure consistent, reliable financial information
  • Lead the development of monthly management reporting and commentary for business unit, regional, and global stakeholders, synthesizing financial performance into clear business insight
  • Maintain reporting that reflects structural and operational changes within the business unit, including organizational changes, new business wins, and lost business
  • Consolidate and develop budget presentations for business unit leadership, clearly articulating performance expectations and planning assumptions
  • Develop strong working knowledge of enterprise reporting systems and provide support for financial inquiries, reporting needs, and data extraction
• Controls, Compliance, and Financial Governance:
  • Ensure financial controls, accounting policies, and governance standards are consistently applied across assigned areas of responsibility
  • Prepare, review, and approve balance sheet account reconciliations in the designated system on a recurring basis
  • Understand business unit incentive plans and provide the related financial analysis and reporting required to support them
  • Serve as the business unit liaison for the quarterly external audit management process
• Team Leadership and Capability Development:
  • Conduct and participate in formal performance reviews for direct reports, if applicable, with a strong focus on feedback, development, and continuous improvement
  • Support individual development planning and maintain an active focus on personal growth and capability building

Requirements

• Required Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, accounting, or a related field, required
  • Five or more years of progressive experience in finance and/or accounting, required
  • Previous experience in financial analysis or business-facing finance roles, required
  • Experience in the logistics industry, whether captive or third-party, preferred
  • Public accounting experience is advantageous, preferred
• Preferred Education and Experience:
  • MBA and/or CPA, preferred
• Skills and Abilities:
  • Strong financial systems and reporting capability, required
  • Oracle and Essbase
  • Microsoft Excel and Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Access and/or other databases
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, required
  • Self-directed with the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic environment, required
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across multiple functions and levels, required
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, required
  • Ability to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines without compromising quality, required