Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Summary:

The FP&A Manager will serve as a key resource in our Central Finance team, consolidating forecasts and results, building executive presentations, and managing corporate operating expenses and capital expenditures.  This role is highly cross‑functional and visible, partnering closely with senior leadership and corporate teams to deliver insights that drive operational performance, profitability, and disciplined growth.

This role will translate complex financial data into actionable insights—supporting forward‑looking decision‑making while ensuring accurate reporting and strong financial controls. The FP&A Manager will support and influence decision making through financial analysis and thought leadership.

Responsibilities: 

Central Function

• Consolidate forecasts and results across Cosm divisions.
• Build executive and Board of Director presentations for consolidated results and corporate overhead.
• Lead business unit review meetings and provide commentary and insights to management.
• Drive budget and forecast processes, leading reviews with senior business executives.

Corporate Overhead

• Analyze monthly corporate overhead expenses by cost center and project. Review with stakeholders to understand spending plans and retrend monthly forecasts.
• Aggregate overhead results/forecasts and provide commentary and insights to management.
• Partner with department leads to understand Capex needs, track project spend against plans and provide insights to management.
• Manage monthly cash flow update process, incorporating results into the monthly FP&A reporting package, including partnering with Accounting on cash flow statement reporting.
• Refine monthly financial reporting package to provide better financial visibility to management.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate transaction classification, support monthly accruals, and reconcile reporting data.
• Partner with HR on headcount forecasting and planning, support comp accruals.

Event Production Costs

• Collaborate with the production teams and the venues FP&A team to understand the event schedule and analyze event costs for Cosm’s live productions.
• Prepare monthly cost reporting and provide insights to the production and FP&A teams.
• Proactively meet and review costs by event with the production teams.
• Prepare monthly accruals and deferrals and submit to Accounting. 

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field. MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or related field; or 3+ years with MBA.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally to problem-solve and achieve goals.
• High proficiency in MS Office, including an ability to maintain complex Excel models and create PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate financial information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting (GAAP) principles.
• Experience with ERP (Oracle, SAP, Workday) and/or EPM systems required.
• Experience with Tableau highly preferred.

The annualized base salary range for this position in California is $105,000 to $140,000. The base salary offered will factor in internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and relevant experience, among other factors.