Manager, Finance

Job Summary

• Responsible for partnering with management to set the financial and strategic business goals to drive the business, and serve as a financial thought partner in the daily management and decision making required to meet and exceed the team’s financial goals. Provide financial strategy development and implementation; planning and forecasting; and analysis/reporting. Serve as a strategic team member, driving functional metrics, controlling costs, and working closely with the business to achieve goals and create shareholder value.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Serves as the financial leader in annual reviews, developing multi-year financial plans and profitability metrics and key investment decisions. Provides reporting and analyses of financial results weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
• Identifies and implements process and organizational improvements. Plans and ensures execution of objectives. Participates in preparation of the annual budget and reviews monthly expenditures and metrics to ensure budgetary goals are met.
• Leads and supports the strategic planning process and working with functional team to develop strategic and operational plans.
• Conducts financial planning for function and makes appropriate recommendations.
• Leads, plans, and coordinates work teams to ensure effective performance of financial functions/activities. Utilizes metrics to track performance and manage workload. Ensures operational processes and procedures comply with established policies.
• Drives key functional financial metrics.
• Develops and supports a strategic alliance with business partners. Participates in cross-functional activities focused on solving business issues, enhancing competitive advantage and facilitating communication with other areas of the business.

Nature and Scope

• Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.
• Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, banking, Big 4 accounting firm, or corporate experience preferred.
• Experience with ERP and CPM systems such as Oracle, SAP, OneStream, Hyperion, Workday, Anaplan, or BPA.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial statement analysis.
• Experience with databases, SQL, Power BI, and dashboards for analysis.