Job Title: FP&A Manager
Company: One Stop Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSS)
Headquarters Location: Escondido/San Diego, CA
Compensation & Benefits:- Annual salary range $170,000 to $180,000
- Potential for Stock Equity
- 401K Matching
- Competitive Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Three weeks of PTO
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Hybrid
Position Overview:The
FP&A Manager serves as a strategic financial leader, driving profit optimization, commercial strategy, business planning and forecasting, and capital allocation across our business. The FP&A Manager will own the end-to-end corporate financial planning, budgeting, and rolling forecast processes. This role will be the premier financial partner to executive leadership, operations directors, and program managers -transforming raw operational data into high-impact strategic decisions.
Supervisor Responsibility:None.
Reporting Relationships:The FP&A Manager reports to the CFO.
Duties and Responsibilities:1. Strategic Financial Leadership & Capital Allocation- Corporate Budgeting Ownership: Architect and lead the end-to-end preparation, consolidation, and execution of the annual corporate budget and rolling forecasts across our business.
- Corporate Investment Modeling: Support the evaluation and stress-testing of corporate investment proposals, including for organic R&D, M&S, and capital projects and for inorganic M&A opportunities. Support the ROI, NPV, and payback period frameworks used to greenlight investments.
- Strategic Scenario Planning: Build macro-level predictive models to simulate the long-term impact of raw material inflation (BOM volatility), labor market shifts, tariffs, and pricing strategies.
2. Advanced Margin Defense & Operational Excellence- Cost Structure Optimization: Lead deep-dive investigations into standard vs. actual manufacturing costs, driving accountability for variances in direct materials, scrap rates, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
- Commercial & Pricing Strategy: Partner with Sales and Product Management to evaluate product portfolio profitability, analyze customer/SKU margins, and establish pricing frameworks that defend gross margins against inflationary pressures.
- Inventory & Working Capital Management: Drive strategic analysis on inventory velocity, working capital efficiency, and minimum/maximum stock levels to balance cash flow with production continuity.
3. Executive Reporting & Business Partnership- Executive & Board Communications: Synthesize complex corporate financial metrics and plant operations into highly professional, narrative-driven board decks and executive presentations for the C-suite.
- Cross-Functional Advisory: Serve as the strategic partner to Operations, Supply Chain, and Program Management leadership teams, translating shop-floor metrics into clear bottom-line financial realities.
- Team Leadership: Establish best-in-class FP&A processes and tools. Champion a data-driven culture, providing mentorship and development to junior analysts or cross-functional team members.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or an engineering/quantitative discipline. An MBA or an advanced professional credential (CMA, CPA, CFA) is highly preferred.
- 5-8+ years of progressive corporate finance experience, with at least 3 years explicitly in a leadership or managerial capacity within a manufacturing, supply chain, or industrial company.
Competencies:- Clear Communication Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to deliver the appropriate level of detail.
- Develop Relationships Has the ability to develop relationships with co-workers and to contribute to group solutions.
- Good Judgement Exercises good business judgment and makes good decisions and notifies management of issues and concerns.
- Positive Attitude Positive attitude with ability to work independently as well as collaboratively across all departments within the OSS Company.
- Budget Works with the company's budgetary guidelines while minimizing expenses and maximizing cost efficiency.
- Company Goals Understands Company and department goals and objectives, and how you contribute.
Physical Demands: - Occasionally required to stand
- Occasionally required to walk
- Continually required to sit
- Continually required to utilize hand and finger dexterity
- Continually required to talk or hear
- Continually utilize visual acuity to read financial information and use a keyboard
