SUMMARY
Qualifications
- The successful candidate must possess strong business acumen and communication skills, exceptional analytical skills, self-starting attributes, enthusiasm and a results-oriented attitude.
- Post-secondary education preferably with a specialization in Finance or Accounting with an understanding of financial and management accounting principles.
- 10+ years’ experience in an FP&A or accounting role.
- Experience in financial modeling with advanced to expert level MS Excel user (knowledge and experience with functions such as v-lookup, index, pivot tables, macros).
- Possess strong analytical skills and good business sense.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to articulate analytical results.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to implement a business process change using strong project management techniques, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities:
- FP&A Manager will act as an intermediary between the Management, Finance, and other functional departments within the unit to provide value added financial and business consultation resources to support profitability and innovation.
- Analyze the monthly results versus budget and prior year.
- Perform monthly gross profit variance analysis.
- Lead the monthly gross profit performance review of key customers and product segments across the Business Unit to identify successes that can be replicated and issues that need to be addressed.
- Develop and maintain sales performance and margin reports.
- Monitor pricing and margin variances, investigate discrepancies, and provide analytical support to the Business Unit Leadership Team.
- Perform cost variance analysis and communicate with supply chain leadership to understand variances.
Support the Budgeting & Forecasting process for the Business Unit:
- Provide financial and analytical support to develop the Business Unit budget.
- Maintaining budgeting model/templates for the business unit.
- Preparing timely and accurate reports and analyzes variances to budget.
- Make recommendations to implement corrective actions to align results with the budget.
- Develop quarterly forecasts based on the sales volume projection and making adjustments for market risks and opportunities
Project Analytics & Support:
- Develop business cases and analytics to determine viability of projects.
- Prepare scenario analysis to understand the impact to manufacturing standards.
- Prepare executive presentations/slide decks to present project details and recommendations.
- Prepare key senior executive deliverables, including presentation decks communicating financial updates on a monthly and quarterly basis
Support and Drive the Pricing Process:
- Perform margin analysis to evaluate pricing to drive top-line growth, maximize profitability and ensure recommendations are aligned with customer strategies and corporate vision.
- Assist with RFP submissions by providing competitive pricing models and accurate cost models that reflect the real cost to the business and ensure competitiveness.
- Maintain a high degree of interaction with sales team, business unit, and operations management to ensure pricing and cost alignment.
- Develop pricing processes to execute strategy for customer segments, simplifying proposals to highlight key supplementary data and decision points by eliminating non-value-added complexity
Skills:
Financial analysis, Forecasting, Reporting, Financial planning and analysis, Financial reporting, Financial modeling, Variance analysis