Senior Manager, FP&A
Gentherm · Novi, MI · 3 wk ago
FinanceFull-time
Essential Functions And Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of enterprise income statement forecasting and analysis, including revenue, volume/mix, pricing, gross margin, SG&A, EBIT, and adjusted earnings.
- Drive the monthly close-to-forecast process, coordinating inputs from business and functional finance teams; prepare variance bridges, driver analysis, and performance insights for leadership review.
- Validate assumptions, ensure consistency, and surface risks and opportunities with clear recommendations for escalation to the Corporate FP&A Lead.
- Execute the income statement components of the Annual Operating Plan, quarterly forecasts, and outlook updates in accordance with Corporate FP&A timelines and standards.
- Build and maintain driver-based models, sensitivities, and scenarios to support leadership decision-making and enable rapid response to changing conditions.
- Partner with the Corporate FP&A Lead to align planning outputs to enterprise targets and strategic priorities.
- Prepare executive-ready income statement reporting and narrative commentary, highlighting key drivers, trends, and forward-looking implications.
- Own the enterprise income statement narrative used in leadership discussions, ensuring clarity and consistency across reporting cycles.
- Support leadership discussions by translating financial results into options, trade-offs, and recommended actions, while maintaining clear documentation and analytical rigor.
- Partner with enterprise function leads to align on drivers of performance, improve forecast accuracy, and ensure consistency between financial results and business activity.
- Support M&A activities through financial analysis and scenario modeling, assessing revenue, margin, cost structure, and synergy impacts.
- Partner with Corporate FP&A leadership and cross-functional teams during diligence to evaluate performance, quality of earnings, and alignment to enterprise standards.
- Lead FP&A integration post-close, aligning acquired entities to Gentherm’s financial structure (chart of accounts, reporting hierarchies, revenue/cost classifications) and embedding into close, forecast, and budget cycles.
- Establish and monitor KPIs tied to deal assumptions, ensuring acquisitions are fully integrated into executive reporting with clear visibility to performance, risks, and synergy capture.
- Partner with Finance Technology Lead to ensure integrity, scalability, and continuous improvement of income statement reporting and forecasting within OneStream and ERP platforms.
- Drive automation, standardization, and documentation of key processes to reduce manual effort and key-person dependency.
- Ensure strong data governance and consistency of key financial definitions and drivers across the enterprise.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- 8+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience in a complex, multi-entity environment.
- Strong understanding of financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, and management reporting processes, with ability to analyze and interpret complex financial results.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Comfortable working across multiple time zones and cultures.
- Must demonstrate high ethical and professional standards including maintaining confidentiality of privileged company information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting public company or SOX-regulated environments.
- Experience with OneStream or similar EPM systems in a power user capacity to support reporting, planning, and analysis.
- Prior involvement in large-scale finance transformation or planning process improvements.
- Experience working with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and understanding data flows between financial systems.
Nice to Know
- Travel: Limited travel as required (generally