Corporate FP&A Manager

Job Description

Overview
The FP&A Lead is responsible for preparing monthly financial reporting packages, including full financial statements, KPI dashboards, budget variance analysis, and executive-level insights. This role partners with senior leadership and business unit leaders to drive financial discipline, support strategic decision-making, and lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking processes. Additionally, the FP&A Lead builds complex financial models, enhances internal reporting systems, and helps evolve the organization's finance function as a center of excellence.

Responsibilities

• Prepare a monthly reporting package that includes full financial statements, comprehensive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, operational Dashboard reporting, analysis of key business trends, actual versus budget variances and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences.
• Partner closely with key stakeholders across the organization and drive the FP&A function as a proven center of excellence to support financial discipline and data based decision making
• Establish effective partnerships with business unit leaders and finance peers
• Lead the annual operating budget process, track and report on performance relative to plan, and manage ongoing rolling forecast updates
• Build and iterate on complex financial models covering all aspects of EWF's operations to enable effective decision making regarding growth strategy, cost structure, and capital expenditures
• Own all aspects of management reporting; maintain and enhance internal financial reporting processes, serving as a thought leader to upgrade reporting standards
• Establish, track, and monitor key operating metrics used to drive the organization to greater efficiency
• Create ad-hoc analyses to drive organizational strategy, improve efficiency, and maximize impact
• Help drive finance discipline, fact-based decision-making, and financial visibility
• Streamline and improve financial systems in processes in service of efficiency and cross-functional collaboration.
• Assist the CFO on the organization's financial and administrative processes with an eye to continuously developing and improving processes and systems
• Prepare monthly and annual financial reporting materials and metrics for EWF's senior leadership team.
• Partner with the CFO, Finance and senior leadership to build out and integrate the FP&A function within the organization
• Work closely with program leaders and their staff to educate them regarding financial planning and analysis and explore how the FP&A function can support program operations

Education

• Bachelor degree in finance/accounting required, MBA degree preferred

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of progressive FP&A experience
• Highly proficient in financial analysis and model building
• Experience developing and leading annual budgeting processes with multiple stakeholders in large and complex organizations
• Proven track record of implementing or improving financial reporting systems
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers
• Highly flexible and adaptable, with operational growth, particularly with technology and systems
• Strong communication and relationship building skills with a strong customer service orientation
• Excellent track record of leading, managing, and developing high-performing teams
• Keen analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills, and experience providing leadership with process improvements and streamlining financial operations
• Experience in a manufacturing company with highly engineered products, comfort with a variety of product costing methodologies.
• Experience working in a private equity backed company (preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, database, financial and reporting system