Commercial FP&A Manager

Summary

The FP&A manager leads all financial planning and analysis processes across multiple Business Units (BU) and serves as a strategic partner to BU leadership by providing data rooted insights to drive performance.  The successful candidate will be exceptionally skilled in presenting complex financial information in a clear and concise manner and will leverage superior technical, interpersonal, and influencing skills to achieve financial goals within the BU.

This role is hybrid based in our Dublin, OH location.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Advises Business Unit leadership with regard to financial decisions
• Drives multi year financial and strategic planning processes across multiple BUs
• Works across functional disciplines and BU leadership to establish BU KPIs and owns reporting and monitoring of associated action plans required to meet KPIs
• Routinely assesses customer, product, and item level profitability and develops succinct, actionable recommendations to the BU leadership teams
• Proactively recommends cost and productivity improvement opportunities
• Coordinates with operations to ensure linkage of inventory, production levels, and sales forecasts 
• Leads business case development, including ROI and NPV analysis, for all strategic and capital projects within the assigned Business Units and develops monitoring mechanisms to measure performance against the business case
• Ensures BU leaders have the tools and support needed to understand financial performance, variances to budget/forecast and implications to future projections
• Assists corporate FP&A team with month end variance analysis 
• Collaborates with FP&A peers to drive continuous improvement within the broader finance organization 
• Responsible for ad-hoc analysis to support broader Hyperion initiatives
• Navigates and build relationships with key stakeholders.   Works as a team player and manifests a positive influence on others

Qualifications

• Ability to utilize critical thinking to drive insights and eliminate complexity, drive focus on critical few to set clear priorities and improve results
• Skilled at building cross-functional relationships and influencing decision-making 
• Strong background in financial statement analysis and knowledge of general accounting principles
• Demonstrated ability to develop and present analyses and insights to senior management
• Experience in implementing financial reporting and scalable processes
• Proven ability to drive large-scale planning processes that involve multiple partners and functions
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive projects to completion in fast paced, rapidly changing environment

Education and/or Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or related field; CPA/MBA preferred
• 7+ years’ experience in Corporate FP&A or business/commercial finance functions

Technical Skills/Physical Requirements

• Advanced Excel skills are essential, and experience with business intelligence platforms (PowerBi, Alteryx etc) is preferred
• ERP / business planning tool experience preferred