Senior Manager, FP&A

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP Building Solutions) is a leading provider of high-performance building solutions that meet the demands of builders, remodelers, and homeowners worldwide. We manufacture engineered wood building products that include an extensive offering of innovative and dependable building materials and accessories. LP’s values-driven culture creates an environment where talented and hardworking people thrive in an ethical, inclusive, challenging, and rewarding place to work. Since our founding in 1972, we’ve developed careers and provided advancement opportunities in the building products industry. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP operates more than 20 facilities across North and South America. For more information, visit LPCorp.com.

Job Purpose

LP team members think and act like owners, and this is especially true for leaders responsible for shaping financial strategy and influencing enterprise-wide decision-making. In this role, you bring deep financial expertise, a highly strategic mindset, and strong leadership capability to drive insights that directly impact business performance and long-term direction. You possess an advanced understanding of financial planning, forecasting, and key performance metrics, along with strong knowledge of financial principles that allow you to connect financial outcomes to broader organizational strategy and initiatives.

You are recognized as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear, compelling insights that guide critical decisions. Leveraging tools such as Excel, Power BI, Planful, and SAP, you ensure high-quality, scalable reporting and data integrity, while delivering executive-ready analysis that supports both short-term execution and long-term planning.

You bring exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to navigate highly complex and ambiguous situations, resolve escalations, and identify root causes that drive business performance. You proactively challenge assumptions, develop innovative solutions, and influence outcomes across the organization.

In this role, you lead through others by establishing and executing multi-year priorities aligned with enterprise strategy. You play a key role in supporting corporate strategy, advising leadership on risks and opportunities, and ensuring strong financial governance and budget discipline. Through collaboration with both internal stakeholders and external partners, you help drive alignment, accountability, and execution. Your leadership fosters a high-performing team environment focused on development, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable results.

In this position you will have the opportunity to:

• Serve as a key finance partner for commercial leaders to originate and develop analyses to help better understand financial trends and financial opportunities (e.g., business development, profitability, cost savings, business development, etc.)
• Lead and influence the development of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range strategic plans aligned with enterprise priorities
• Lead complex financial analyses, including business cases, ROI evaluations, capital allocation decisions, and cost optimization efforts, advising senior leadership on financial performance, trade-offs, and strategic initiatives by acting as a trusted thought partner
• Responsible for accumulating and presenting monthly and quarterly company results, and broader industry and competitor trends to business partners.
• Provide decision support through scenario modeling and analysis. Analyze current and past trends of key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, inventory, expenses, and capital expenditures
• Continually improve and automate processes to do more with existing resources and enable the team to be more effective through improved efficiency.
• Establish and implement FP&A best practices, including forecasting methodologies, reporting standards, and data governance, driving continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and financial processes through automation and innovation
• Set and execute 1–3 year team strategies and priorities, aligned with organizational goals
• Foster a culture of accountability, problem-solving, and continuous improvement across the FP&A function
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

What do I need to be successful?

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, preferably financial planning and analysis in industrial manufacturing or related industries
• Equivalent combination of experience and training that demonstrates the ability to perform the key responsibilities of this position
• Analytical, strategic thinker with the ability to effectively collaborate with various business units
• Ability to work cross-functionally, providing financial and data analysis expertise as a service to different departments
• Experience with finance partnerships and influential leadership
• Demonstrate a leading understanding of financial modeling, including selecting relevant metrics and the key drivers of financial results
• Strong business acumen with ability to clearly articulate in verbal and written communication
• Highly driven and self-motivated with keen attention to detail, establishing processes, and organized
• Adept at working with large data sets across multiple technology sources
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI, Planful, and SAP strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a strategic focus

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field required
• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences in Business/Accounting preferred

Work Environment

• This position will work at home and in our Nashville office on a hybrid schedule
• Must live within a commutable distance to Nashville or willing to relocate to the greater Nashville area

LP offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including health and welfare benefits, 401(k) program, career mobility, tuition reimbursement, volunteer opportunities, profit sharing and more.