Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager

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Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager works closely with senior management to increase efficiencies and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial plan. The incumbent's responsibilities will include providing financial insights and projections to the accounting team. The incumbent will provide reliable data and analysis to be used in decision-making and planning and will prepare accurate monthly financial reports, assist in the preparation of presentations that provide thoughtful analysis, identify action items, and effectively frame decisions that need to be made.

Your day will look like this:

• Work closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan
• Work with Business Leaders to build their annual budgets and forecasts
• Produce financial models to project long term growth and determine business factors impacting growth
• Analyze financial and operational results to better understand company performance
• Utilize BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the business performance and results
• Review operations and recommend new or cost saving initiatives
• Prepare business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
• Review existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
• Evaluate previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
• Communicate results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability
• Provide FP&A finance support to the accounting teams related to productivity, reporting, and metrics in a timely manner.
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights.
• Work on corporate projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• Other duties as assigned

Your profile:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• CPA preferred
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in financial analysis and project accounting.
• Above average Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Strong knowledge in accounting and GAAP
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 preferred
• Superior interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate and engage at all levels of the organization;
• Business savvy with a consultative approach and superior ability in partnering with the business to provide feedback, coaching, advise and support;
• Ability to balance operational and strategic mindset and juggle multiple tasks.
• Effectively aligns work with the business priorities with ability solve problems and innovate.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office suite.
• Comfort with multi-cultural business context essential.
• Available for travel within the US and occasionally abroad.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive matters.
• Able to employ solid decision-making skills.
• Model trustworthiness and highly ethical behavior.
• Ability to manage change and work in a fast-paced environment meeting commitments and deadlines.

Physical Requirements:

This is not an all-inclusive list but is intended to give an overview of the requirements for this position. Reasonable accommodation will be provided under appropriate circumstances and in accordance with applicable law. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to:

• Continually: Sit, walk, speak, and hear
• Continually: Type, write, and read

Work Requirements:

• Time will be spent in an office setting.
• Flexible work hours to support coast to coast operations.
• Typical workweeks standard 40 hours.
• Environment may be fast paced.

Our offer to you:

• Competitive compensation and group insurance plan

• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Skills development activities and opportunities for career advancement
• Work environment conducive to personal health and well-being
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off & referral program

Solotech is an equal opportunity employer. EOE/M/F/D/V