Financial Planning & Analysis

Description:

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager works closely with senior management to increase the company’s efficiency and profitability through critical analysis of business processes, operations, revenue, and margins. The FP&A Manager is also responsible for coordinating and leading the development of periodic short, medium, and long-range financial forecasts as well as the annual operating budget.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the leadership team to formulate the business’s medium to long term financial and strategic plan.
• Work with department heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts and consolidate them into an overall corporate budget or forecast.
• Create, update, and maintain the financial models and detailed forecasts to support the planning and budgeting processes.
• Analyze financial and operational results to understand company performance against budgets and forecasts, providing variance analysis to explain the drivers of differences in performance.
• Utilize BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business, department, or product performance.
• Communicate results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation, or streamlined operations.
• Review existing business processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts including automation opportunities.
• Prepare business cases to support new investment, strategic, and other business decisions.
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts, and profitability.
• Deliver competitor analysis, market trends, and associated commentary.
• Perform ad hoc and routine financial close tasks.

Qualified Candidates should possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Operations Management, or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant analytical experience in an operations or manufacturing environment
• Experience working in an ERP system environment
• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft Excel and BI reporting tools
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, organizational, and problem-solving skills (linking results to drivers)
• Experience developing forecasts and operating plans
• High level of commercial acumen
• General understanding of finance and business control with a process orientation
• A desire to automate and constantly improve performance, work processes, and team efficiencies
• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize multiple tasks and deliverables in an effective and timely manner
• Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships with various levels of management
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills

Please email resume to Amy Dresser– adresser@hkasearch.com