Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the role

This Manager-level individual contributor role serves as an FP&A partner and provides close support to the Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, but performing assigned subsidiary, departmental, and cross-functional planning and analysis workstreams that inform business performance, strategic planning, and resource allocation.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned annual operating plan, budget development, quarterly forecast updates, and long-range planning workstreams for designated departments or subsidiary areas, including coordinating timelines, aligning assumptions, challenging inputs, consolidating financial plans, and preparing leadership-ready materials for Senior Manager review and broader FP&A integration.
• Develop, maintain and enhance complex financial models for assigned business areas, using them to evaluate performance, forecast future results, assess alternative scenarios, and support recommendations related to growth, cost structure, capital deployment, and resource allocation.
• Provide financial acumen across departments and functions by translating financial and operational data into actionable insights, identifying material risks and opportunities, and recommending strategies to improve profitability, cash flow, productivity, and operating effectiveness.
• Prepare and present recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages for assigned business areas, including variance analysis, trend analysis, business-driver commentary, forward-looking insights, and recommended actions; serve as a delegate for the Senior Manager on recurring FP&A deliverables as appropriate.
• Independently analyze financial and operating results against budget, forecast, and prior periods to identify performance trends, root causes, emerging issues, and opportunities, and communicate findings in a clear, concise, and decision-oriented manner.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to functional leaders for assigned areas, providing guidance on productivity, pricing implications, cost management, liquidity considerations, organizational priorities, and business trade-offs while escalating broader enterprise or strategic alignment matters to the Senior Manager.
• Partner with accounting and controllership teams to ensure alignment between actual results and management reporting, including close-related analytics, accrual reviews, reserve analysis, financial statement interpretation, and data integrity review.
• Conduct capital planning and investment analysis by preparing and evaluating business cases, return analyses, sensitivity testing, scenario modeling, and post-investment performance tracking for strategic initiatives, major projects, acquisitions, or other significant uses of capital, supporting Senior Manager review and final leadership alignment.
• Develop, monitor, and refine key performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting tools that help leadership assess business health, operating leverage, working capital trends, and progress against strategic objectives.
• Drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and data quality within assigned financial planning and reporting processes, leveraging Power BI or other tools to improve accuracy, efficiency, transparency, and scalability while supporting broader FP&A system and process priorities established by the Senior Manager.
• Lead projects, processes, and cross-functional deliverables as a high-level individual contributor by coordinating inputs, setting expectations, reviewing work products, influencing stakeholders, and ensuring timely, accurate, and business-relevant outcomes; may provide informal guidance or future supervisory support as the function evolves.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field required; advanced degree, CPA, CMA, or CFA preferred.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment analysis, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and financial decision-support processes in a complex business environment.
• Advanced financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret large and complex data sets, evaluate business drivers, challenge assumptions, and convert findings into practical strategic recommendations.
• Proven ability to work independently with limited direction, exercise sound judgment, anticipate business needs, and proactively identify opportunities to improve financial performance, processes, and decision-making.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills, including the ability to connect financial outcomes to operational drivers, market conditions, organizational priorities, and long-term company objectives.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience with financial planning systems, reporting tools, enterprise resource planning platforms, and business intelligence solutions such as Power BI or similar reporting and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, working capital, capital investment analysis, and key financial drivers that influence business performance.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex financial information, influence stakeholders, and provide recommendations to leaders with varying levels of financial expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and processes through influence rather than formal authority, including coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, establishing priorities, improving workflows, and driving deliverables to completion.
• Ability to operate as a trusted delegate and close partner to senior FP&A leadership, independently advancing assigned priorities while recognizing when broader strategic alignment, enterprise-level decisions, or final direction should be elevated.
• Strong organizational skills, executive presence, intellectual curiosity, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and confidential information with a high degree of accountability.