WHAT WE NEED

The FP&A Manager brings analytical rigor to monitoring performance and mitigating risk, plus creative problem solving to support innovative solutions, to ensure we arrive at our desired destination. Reporting to the Director, FP&A, and as an integral member of the Finance Team, this role will be responsible for bringing financial excellence to assessing and advancing business decisions to deliver organizational growth objectives.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to a long-term financial and strategic plan.
• Challenge status quo thinking, and challenge decision making by providing reliable and insightful modeling to assess risk, solve problems and drive growth.
• Work with Departmental heads to build and understand performance against their annual budgets and forecasts.
• Develop and implement spend control measures in partnership with functional managers to allow for real-time spend accuracy and decision making.
• Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance.
• Utilize and drive improvements on Financial Reporting and BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance.
• Serve as key financial resource for implementing and administering financial reporting and planning tools.
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results.
• Work closely with operation finance team to evaluate and track new productivity or cost-saving initiatives.
• Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions.
• Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts.
• Evaluating previous budgets, and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets.
• Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining of operations.
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts, and profitability.
• Responsible for establishing and tracking the right KPI’s to monitor and manage targets short, medium, and long term.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration required.

• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or MS Finance preferred. 

• A minimum of seven (7+) years of experience in progressively more responsibilities finance roles in budgeting and analysis, delivering robust insights, and translating financial information into a palatable story that is meaningful across many layers of the business.
• A minimum of three (3+) years of analytical tools, such as Financial Planning software (OneStream, Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, etc.), Power BI, and reporting tools.
• Proven ability to evaluate and elevate modeling processes from Excel into next level analytical tools.
• Experience in the manufacturing industry

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in a company that has an aggressive growth trajectory, including through merger. and/or acquisition activities.
• Basic working knowledge of AI-assisted data tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude) to synthesize research, organize datasets, and extract actionable insights.
• Experience in CPG industry

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