Job DescriptionThe Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A leads enterprise financial planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support. This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes. The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations, corporate functions, and other stakeholders to deliver actionable financial insights and scalable tools that support better business decisions.
Primary FunctionThe Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A leads enterprise financial planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support. This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes.
The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations, corporate functions, and other stakeholders to deliver actionable financial insights and scalable tools that support better business decisions.
ResponsibilitiesFinancial Planning, Forecasting, and Performance Analysis- Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and recurring financial reviews.
- Partner with business unit FP&A teams to evaluate results, business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Analyze consolidated performance versus plan, forecast, prior year, and prior outlooks across key financial metrics.
- Develop financial models, scenarios, sensitivities, and driver-based analyses to support decisions.
- Improve forecast quality, planning discipline, and consistency of assumptions.
Reporting, Dashboards, and Business Insights- Develop management reporting packages, dashboards, scorecards, and executive summaries.
- Translate financial and operational data into concise, decision-ready insights.
- Standardize reporting definitions, improve data quality, and ensure consistent financial metrics.
- Automate recurring reporting and improve timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial information.
FP&A Process Improvement and Transformation- Lead continuous improvement across FP&A processes, templates, models, workflows, and reporting routines.
- Recommend and implement practical, scalable improvements to planning, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Partner with finance, accounting, IT, and business teams to improve data governance, automation, system functionality, and controls.
- Drive adoption of improved tools, dashboards, planning models, and standard work.
Business Unit Partnership and Cross-Functional Support- Serve as a trusted finance partner to business unit FP&A teams and corporate functions.
- Support analysis of performance trends, variances, and actions to improve financial results.
- Facilitate alignment, information sharing, and best practices across finance teams.
- Provide decision support for strategic initiatives, productivity programs, capital investments, acquisitions, and other priorities.
Executive, Board, and Investor Relations Support- Prepare executive financial analyses, presentations, and performance summaries.
- Support Board, earnings, investor relations, and external communication materials.
- Ensure materials are accurate, concise, well-supported, and aligned with the company's performance narrative.
- Analyze peer, market, and business performance trends to support executive and investor-facing communications.
Systems, Tools, and Data Enablement- Support planning, reporting, and enterprise performance management system improvements.
- Partner with system owners and users to enhance reporting, dashboards, workflows, and data integrity.
- Define business requirements, test enhancements, document processes, and support adoption.
- Experience with SAP and OneStream is a plus.
Leadership and Team Development- Review analysis, reporting, and presentations for accuracy, clarity, and executive readiness.
- Build FP&A capabilities by sharing best practices, improving templates, and strengthening financial storytelling.
- Promote curiosity, process discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Model strong business partnership, attention to detail, and accountability.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field required; MBA, CPA, CFA, or relevant certification preferred.
- 8-12 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related analytical role.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, working capital, capital expenditures, margin analysis, and key operating metrics.
- Experience with planning, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, variance analysis, and executive financial reviews.
- Strong experience developing reports, dashboards, scorecards, financial models, and executive presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to improve FP&A processes, standardize reporting, automate recurring work, and strengthen financial discipline.
- Proven ability to partner with business unit FP&A teams, corporate functions, and senior leadership.
- Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or public company experience preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
- Experience with ERP, planning, reporting, or enterprise performance management systems required; SAP, OneStream and Co-Pilot experience a plus.
Key Competencies- Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, and business judgment.
- Excellent executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex information.
- Process improvement mindset with ability to create scalable, repeatable solutions.
- Strong reporting and dashboard orientation with attention to data quality and usability.
- Collaborative leadership style with ability to influence across teams and senior levels.
- High attention to detail, disciplined execution, and strong project management skills.
- High integrity, professionalism, discretion, accountability, and commitment to developing talent.
We OfferCompetitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits plans which include medical and dental insurance, company-sponsored life insurance, retirement security savings plan, short- and long-term disability programs and tuition assistance.
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