Waylin focuses on providing leading private equity firms with best-in-class finance, accounting, and data analytics services to optimize and automate back-office functions of portfolio companies.
Description:
Waylin Partners, a leading provider of FP&A and accounting consulting services, is looking for a Manager who is passionate about providing solutions to complex problems. At Waylin, you will be working directly with other experienced professionals to deploy FP&A and accounting solutions to enhance processes and bottom-line results at our client's portfolio companies. Specifically, your function at the client businesses will include:
- Translate complex questions into data-driven analyses to allow leaders to make informed decisions
- Structure and guide modeling efforts that drive strategic recommendations to key stakeholders
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with teams across the portfolio company and private equity firm
- Transform data into useful information tailored to leadership needs through excel and other data visualization tools
- Develop executive level presentations to communicate and achieve consensus for recommendations
Specific Examples of Workstreams:
- Lead the budgeting process, preparing monthly forecasts, creating variance analyses and explanations
- Lead the preparation of monthly performance reports, financial analysis, and evaluation of historical trends.
- Continuously seek to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness of the forecasting and close process
- Provide business intelligence with financial results and key performance indicators to facilitate decisions
- Prepare and maintain various daily/weekly/monthly operational efficiency reports
- Assist in process improvements, cost reduction, automation, and system upgrades
- Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with leaders and teams across the portfolio company
- Manage special projects and ad-hoc requests from senior management such as cash flow forecasts, SKU/customer profitability, operational reporting, etc.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or any other quantitative field.
- 4+ years of experience in Consulting, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, or Public Accounting
- Advanced Excel user with the ability to produce dynamic financial models
- A thorough understanding of financial statements and 3-statement modeling
- CPA or CFA designations are a plus
- A sense of ownership and accountability, coupled with excellent communication skills
Top Skills
What We Do
Waylin Partners provides leading private equity firms with best-in-class FP&A and accounting services to automate and optimize the back-office functions of their portfolio companies in North America.
FP&A Service Offerings:
◉ Fully integrated financial modeling to support strategic decisions
◉ Automated and detailed monthly financial reporting package
◉ Monthly/quarterly management team and board reporting
◉ Annual budgeting and budget presentation materials
◉ Profitability by customer and product/service
◉ All-encompassing P&L forecasting and variance analysis
◉ Best-in-class 13-week cash flow forecasting
◉ Real-time hourly/daily/weekly cash reporting
◉ Industry leading KPI, dashboard, and automated reporting
◉ Capital expenditure and ROI analysis
◉ Working capital and cash management analysis
◉ Synergy and restructuring analysis
◉ Interim Chief Financial Officer & Director of Finance/FP&A
Accounting Service Offerings:
◉ Opening balance sheet accounting
◉ Add-on acquisition integration
◉ Month-end close establishment and process improvement
◉ Percentage of completion accounting WIP optimization
◉ Standard costing optimization
◉ Intercompany cleanup/best practice
◉ General ledger clean up
◉ Post-acquisition audit support
◉ Financial health check
◉ Implementing revenue recognition processes
◉ Balance sheet reconciliation and clean up
◉ General accounting support
◉ Interim Chief Accounting Officer & Controller
