Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Purpose 
Lead planning, forecasting, and performance analytics to support strategic decisions and drive financial transparency. Deliver insights that enhance business growth and profitability. This role serves as a key contributor to enterprise forecasting, budgeting, liquidity planning, executive reporting, and strategic decision-making by translating financial, operational, and market data into actionable business insights.

Core Responsibilities

• Build driver-based budgets, forecasts, and financial models to guide decision-making, including support of enterprise EBITDA, cash flow, working capital, and liquidity forecasting.

• Produce monthly reporting packages, variance analyses, dashboards, KPI reporting, and executive-ready financial narratives for stakeholders.

• Partner with business leaders on pricing, profitability, investment analysis, and strategic financial planning initiatives.

• Drive improvements in planning processes, forecasting methodologies, reporting capabilities, and planning system enhancements.

• Support ad hoc financial analyses, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and business case development for strategic initiatives.

• Monitor financial, operational, and market trends to identify risks, opportunities, and key business performance drivers.

• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes through cross-functional coordination and financial analysis.

• Assist with liquidity planning, capital allocation analysis, financing support activities, and executive reporting requirements.

• Support commodity market, hedging, commercial, and operational analyses that influence business and financial decisions.

• Mentor junior analysts to develop modeling, analytical, and business partnership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics.
• 5+ years of FP&A experience and planning tool proficiency.
• Strong ERP and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and executive reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow drivers, and business performance analysis.
• Experience working with large data sets, visualization tools, and analytical reporting preferred.
• Experience in manufacturing, energy, refining, chemicals, or other capital-intensive industries preferred.

Skills

• Financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Data visualization and dashboard creation.
• Business partnering and storytelling with data.
• Attention to detail and analytical rigor.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Financial statement analysis and forecasting.
• Executive reporting and presentation development.
• Liquidity, profitability, and performance analysis.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Continuous improvement and process optimization.

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