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Job Title:
Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A
Division/Department:
Corporate Finance
Location:
Westlake, Ohio
Reports to:
Senior Director, Investor Relations and Corporate FP&A
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Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A is responsible for driving enterprise-wide financial planning, performance management, and decision support across the organization. This role partners closely with executive leadership team to shape financial strategy, influence key business decisions, and enhance overall company performance.
This leader owns the global FP&A processes—including annual budgeting, long-range planning, and forecasting—while developing actionable insights into business drivers and performance trends. The role plays a critical part in articulating the company’s financial story to internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and investors.
In addition, the Senior Manager will lead the evolution of FP&A capabilities by advancing analytics, improving processes and systems, and fostering a high-performing, data-driven finance organization.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Owns the global financial planning process along with the tracking of performance versus plan, being sure to partner with senior business stakeholders to address performance gaps to plan.
- Owns the global FP&A calendar, including our long-range strategic planning and annual budgeting processes, as well as our quarter-end and annual reporting processes. Monitor actual results against expectations and update projections.
- Develops and implements strategies to continuously improve Corporate FP&A processes and enhance our understanding of drivers of the business.
- Challenges assumptions and drives accountability for financial performance across functions and business segments
- Leads preparation of (or prepares) presentations and underlying support documents for finance presentations to board of directors, executive staff, and investors.
- Oversees process for budgeting, forecasting and analyzing corporate managed expenses and other corporate controlled costs and for preparing allocations of corporate expenses for segment reporting.
- Assists in the preparation of financial information and analysis to be used in earnings release materials and analyst / investor discussions.
- Monitors business analytics of competitors, peers, and other economic metrics for benchmark forecasting purposes.
- Support financial reporting processes related to the monthly and quarterly close cycles.
- Builds a data driven culture by standardizing processes, applying analytical best practices, and bringing greater visibility to key metrics through dashboards/reporting.
- Leverages tools such as Power BI and OneStream to enhance reporting, dashboards, and data visualization
- Partners with division controllers and executive management to understand reporting needs and develop/implement process improvements and other ad-hoc reports when needed.
- Leads, coaches, and develops a high-performing FP&A team of two to three direct reports through coaching, mentoring, and structured development plans, drives team productivity and analytical capabilities.
- Prepares ad-hoc analysis to understand the risks and opportunities for product or service profitability, productivity, and return on investment that will guide strategic initiatives and company’s decision-making process.
Education and Experience Requirement
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- CPA or MBA a plus
Experience:
- 8+ years of relevant accounting/financial analysis required
- Supervisory experience in finance and accounting supervisory roles
- Knowledge of OneStream consolidation software preferred
- Strong functional experience with SAP or other ERP software
- Possess a thorough understanding of financial reporting and general ledger structure
- Knowledge of financial consolidations, eliminations, etc.
Skills and Abilities
- Exceptional Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent written and speaking skills including preparation and presentation of verbal and written reports, presentations, and recommendations
- Attention to detail and ability to analyze and manage large volumes of data
- Ability to learn new technology
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage well through ambiguity and complexity
- Ability to execute and follow-through to completion and documentation
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively to meet individual goals and deadlines
- Establish effective working relationships with others to successfully lead, mentor, coach, and motivate
- Demonstration of the highest level of integrity and trust
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
Office environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Travel Required
None
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- CPA or MBA
- 8+ years relevant accounting/financial analysis experience
- Supervisory experience in finance and accounting
- Knowledge of OneStream consolidation software
- Strong functional experience with SAP or other ERP software
- Thorough understanding of financial reporting and general ledger structure
- Knowledge of financial consolidations and eliminations
- Exceptional Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience using Power BI for reporting and visualization
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to analyze large data sets, drive process improvements, and implement technology
Nordson Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nordson Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Nordson Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) features automatic enrollment at 6%, a 50% match on up to 6% of pay, and an additional 3% company contribution for eligible U.S. employees even without employee contributions. Feedback suggests this retirement structure is above what many mid-size manufacturers offer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and a typical year-end shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s at many U.S. locations expand time off beyond standard PTO. Feedback suggests this shutdown is a distinctive work-life perk, though availability can vary by site or business unit.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Volunteer release time and a 3:1 charitable gift-matching program are offered alongside recognition programs, tuition assistance, and community initiatives. Feedback suggests these elements add value beyond core insurance and PTO.
Nordson Corporation Insights
What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization








