FP&A Manager
The FP&A Manager plays a critical role in driving the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis activities that support business growth and operational performance. This position partners closely with leadership, operations teams, and global stakeholders to provide financial insights, improve decision-making, and ensure accurate financial forecasting and reporting.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Lead and develop the annual budgeting process. Work closely with contributors and build the detail and metrics required to meet the requirements of the Corporate and BU team.
• Build and manage methodologies to explain trends in revenues and changes to production schedules.
• Build models to forecast revenues based on yields, materials, labor and overheads and the manufacturing schedule.
• Work closely with team in Shanghai to develop understanding of product status and delivery.
• Track and manage product profitability.
• Analyze monthly margin and P&L to explain monthly and YTD results vs budget and vs forecast.
• Develop monthly, yearly and long range forecasts.
• Serve as a business partner with the operations and greater Corden Pharma community to drive growth through insightful analysis and accurate reporting.
• Deliver monthly reporting at the departmental / cost center level with explanations for changes in cost with root cause analysis and action recommendations to remediate concerns.
• Support the analysis over production variances, deep dive into PPV and variances in charges from sister companies.
• Prepare and monitor the cash flow forecast, including building close working relationships with the CAPEX teams to understand their cash forecasting and the status of the expansion projects.
• Prepare the required Tagetik reporting monthly, prepare the monthly site reporting package, including working with business partners to consolidate the data. Understand the drivers and variances in the monthly site metrics and reporting.
• Keep excellent records and documentation.
• Analyze financial performance, identify revenue generating opportunities, support product leaders to drive revenue growth, and improve margin and productivity
• Perform special projects and ad-hoc financial analysis as required
Qualifications:
• Bachelors' Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or related disciplines
• 5-8+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis
• Experience within a large multinational company is preferred
• SAP experience preferred; Power user of Excel, proficient in MS Office Products required.
• Strong business partner with strategic thinking and data driven analytical skills
• Demonstrated history of driving process improvement
• Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to partner with individuals at all levels in the organization
• Self-motivated, driving for results
