Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer including Vets and Disabled
Your role in helping us shape the future:
The Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Company's operating expense, capital expenditures and headcount planning, forecasting and reporting by providing leadership, financial analysis expertise, business acumen, and a strong desire to improve processes and controls. In this role you will assist Senior Management in gauging performance by providing guidance for strategic business decisions, including the recommendation of business plans that will meet and exceed future company goals. This is a high-profile position with interactions and dependencies internal and external to the finance area at all levels of the organization.
Are you up to the challenge?

• Responsible for the synthesis of revenue and operating expenses to produce top-level adjusted EBITDA views and analyses. Leads the analysis and projection of financial performance (e.g. operating expenses) for a major functional management area. Partners with senior leadership to capture new, relevant financial information and insights; advises plans of action for corrective or maintenance behavior as business needs change.
• Support Director FP&A in creating 5-year long-range plan
• Analyzes variances to past and expected performance and identifies/explains overarching trends in the business to drive management decisions. Provides key analytical support to executive leadership for quarterly external reporting of financial results
• Leads the monthly/quarterly refresh of financial statement (balance sheet, income statement & cash flows) projections; works with Treasury to ensure all non-operating cash outflows/inflows are captured to produce a reliable forward-looking view of liquidity for a rolling four-quarter and static five-year basis.
• Support Segment Finance Managers in managing cost of sales, sg&a, capital expenditures and allocations. Identify and understand key cost drivers and develop a comprehensive driver-based variance analysis for segment leaders and senior management.
• Work with all the stakeholders in assembling and creating Cash flow and balance sheet forecast
• Manage train, and coach the analysis team and leading them i their professional development endeavors. Organizing, assigning, delegating and coordinating the work of the staff to ensure department objectives are met timely and accurately.
• Leveraging an understanding of business dynamics, identify and implement enhancements that would result in more streamlined, consistent processes, workflow automation and the further adoption of a collaborative approach to planning to include robust information sharing and feedback loops. Provide leadership to ensure ongoing evolution of processes to accommodate next generation satellite technologies and solutions-based services.
• Provide support for quarterly external reporting, including public guidance and earnings releases.
• Ad hoc reporting and analysis to support the executive team and department heads
• Provides analytical support to department heads, and conduct "what if" scenario planning.
• Ad hoc financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Provide leadership to team members; develop and stretch talent to maximize benefits to each individual and the company at large
• Partner cross-functionally to digitize the organization, streamline the processes, improve workflows and ensure the integrity of departmental projects.

You should definitely have:

• Bachelors' degree in finance or accounting; or Bachelors' degree in associated field with robust experience leading a finance team.
• CPA certification or advanced degree in business or related field required.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of finance experience including direct experience with revenue and/or operating expenses forecasting and/or planning.
• Superior communication skills both written and verbal with extensive experience presenting complex financial information to a diverse group of senior leaders.
• Strong team leadership and people development skills
• Experience working within matrixed structures supporting unique divisions, regions or business units.
• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud or ERP system is a plus
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex financial data and communicate succinct conclusions and recommendations Ability to strategically overhaul processes with a strong bent toward change management and financial process & systems improvement.
• Systems proficiency including MS Office suite with advanced proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Good knowledge of US GAAP & other revenue recognition issues
• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud or any ERP system is a plus

What it's like to work with us:
Intelsat is connecting the world and transforming the satellite and inflight connectivity landscape by reaching beyond the traditional satellite industry. We are defining new products that will open new, profitable markets. We connect the aviation industry and air travelers with innovative technology and applications, and we do it all in a high-energy environment that welcomes the next challenge. To help us reach this goal, you should be a bold thinker who will perform a key role in shaping Intelsat innovation for years to come.

• We emphasize personal and professional growth
• Awesome benefits including DTO, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
• Flexible work arrangements
• Fun, diverse, and inclusive culture

Other Job Info

• These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job.

• Job requires ability to lift up to 20 lbs