Senior Manager FP&A

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The Role
The Senior Manager of FP&A oversees financial planning, budgeting, and analysis, with full P&L responsibility. This role involves collaborating with various departments to optimize profitability and drive strategic decision-making through financial insights and reporting. The manager will also lead a team, ensuring high-quality analysis and alignment with business objectives.
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Senior Manager of FP&A (Full P&L Responsibility)

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager of FP&A is responsible for managing the company’s financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis functions, with a particular focus on full P&L management. This role provides leadership in driving financial performance, strategic decision-making, and business insights across the organization. You will collaborate with various departments, including Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Product Development, to ensure alignment with company objectives and financial goals.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Financial Planning & Analysis:
    • Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes for the entire P&L, including revenue, cost of goods sold (COGS), operating expenses, and other key financial metrics.
    • Develop and manage long-term financial models and scenarios to support strategic decision-making.
    • Analyze financial performance against key benchmarks and proactively identify areas of improvement and growth.
    • Monitor and report on P&L performance, identifying variances, risks, and opportunities.
    • Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports with detailed variance analysis and insights.
  • P&L Ownership:
    • Oversee full ownership of the Profit & Loss statement, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of financial performance.
    • Work closely with senior leadership to align financial targets with business objectives.
    • Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize profitability by identifying cost-saving opportunities, enhancing revenue streams, and managing margins.
    • Collaborate with accounting to ensure accurate month-end close processes and reconcile actuals with forecasts.
  • Strategic Initiatives & Business Support:
    • Provide financial insights and recommendations to support key business decisions such as pricing strategies, product launches, market expansion, and capital investments.
    • Lead initiatives to improve financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
    • Drive continuous improvement in financial reporting tools and dashboards to provide better visibility and insights for decision-makers.
    • Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor business performance.
  • Team Leadership & Development:
    • Manage and mentor a team of FP&A professionals, ensuring the delivery of high-quality analysis and reporting.
    • Promote a culture of continuous learning, professional development, and innovation within the team.
    • Ensure alignment between FP&A team efforts and organizational priorities.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA is a plus).
  • Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Strong understanding of full P&L management, financial modeling, and business analytics.
  • Advanced proficiency in financial software (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Hyperion) and Excel.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Proven track record of delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working in SAAS or similar high-growth, dynamic environments.
  • Experience with business intelligence and reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
  • Experience managing international financial operations or working in a global business environment.

Key Competencies:

  • Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to influence and drive change across functions.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
  • Strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
  • Effective communicator and collaborator at all levels of the organization.


MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:

Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.

Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. 
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!

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Skillsoft is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer: It is the policy of Skillsoft (US) Corporation to provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability (mental or physical), protected veteran status, genetic information or any other class protected by law.

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HQ: Nashua, NH
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Year Founded: 1998

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Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in corporate digital learning, focused on transforming today’s workforce for tomorrow’s economy. The Company provides enterprise learning solutions designed to prepare organizations for the future of work, overcome critical skill gaps, drive demonstrable behavior change, and unlock the potential in their people. Skillsoft offers a comprehensive suite of premium, original, and authorized partner content, including one of the broadest and deepest libraries of leadership & business skills, technology & developer, and compliance curricula. With access to a broad spectrum of learning options (including video, audio, books, bootcamps, live events, and practice labs), organizations can meaningfully increase learner engagement and retention. Skillsoft’s offerings are delivered through Percipio, its award-winning, AI-driven, immersive learning platform purpose built to make learning easier, more accessible, and more effective. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Skillsoft provides a comprehensive selection of cloud-based corporate learning content, including courses, videos, books, and other resources on Leadership Development, Business Skills, Digital Transformation, Technology & Developer, and Compliance. Percipio’s intuitive design engages modern learners and its consumer-led experience assists in accelerating learning.

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We are all about “Making Work Matter” and strongly believe in the life changing impact of learning. Our team is passionately focused on helping people achieve their fullest potential through learning and development. We are always looking for game changers wanting to make an incredible impact within a purpose driven environment.

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