FP&A Manager

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The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager is responsible for managing and performing work across multiple areas of finance, including financial planning and analysis. This role ensures accurate financial data entry, verification, and maintenance while leading high-quality management reporting, forecasting, and analysis that provide clear insights into business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by partnering with key stakeholders and ensuring financial insights support strategic priorities and business objectives.
How you will contribute:
• Lead the preparation of accurate and timely management reports that provide clear insight into business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end forecasting process, focusing on accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• Analyze financial results, forecasts, and variances to identify key performance drivers and deliver forward-looking insights.
• Prepare executive-level presentations that translate complex data into clear, concise, and visually compelling information to support decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation of reporting and planning processes, using best practices and modern tools to improve efficiency and data quality.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align assumptions, reporting standards, forecasts, and business goals.
• Manage large projects or processes with limited oversight.
• Coach, review, and delegate work to lower-level professionals.
• Analyze diverse data and select appropriate methods for solutions.
• Perform financial transaction and data entry and verification.
• Maintain financial records and compile ad hoc financial information.
• Lead small project teams and represent the organization in contractual or project matters.
Skills and qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, financial analysis, or a related role, with a proven track record of improving processes and implementing best practices.

Fully capable of executing complex financial models independently, can improve existing models and guide others in financial modeling
Expertly navigates complex investment landscapes, providing advice and improvements, capable of mentoring others in investment strategies

 Highly skilled in self-motivation, able to persist through highly complex challenges independently and provides guidance to others on staying motivated
Fully capable of performing variance analysis in highly complex situations, advising others, and recommending improvements
Performs advanced economic analysis, applies principles in highly complex situations, advises others, and makes improvement recommendations
Advanced proficiency in Power BI, capable of handling complex data visualization challenges and coaching others on its use
Fully proficient in management reporting, capable of handling highly complex reporting tasks, advising others, and recommending improvements.