FP&A Senior Manager - United States
The FP&A Senior Manager is a business advocate, providing proactive trusted advice, influencing decisions with a forward-looking perspective, while ensuring timely and accurate delivery of all management reports.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with a highly competent team and apply your FP&A and business partnership capabilities to lead the regional Budgeting & Forecasting and business operational processes.
Responsibilities include:
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes for the USC region. Establish appropriate inputs/outputs, timetables, and necessary levels of analysis to clearly ‘tell the story’, to enable informed decisions to be made by the business.
• Provide FP&A support to the senior management team to help drive deeper understanding of sales pipeline, revenues, contract pricing, project and client profitability.
• Work regularly with the Business Leaders and country managers on financial matters and ad-hoc requests, proposals/tenders, etc. Support the management in implementing and coordinating economic analysis, identifying KPI and profit drivers.
• Coordinate project controller activities, ensuring projects are being monitored in F&O and CRM, making sure that all the expenses/costs are charged to the project, Backlog/Milestones maintenance is 100% accurate all the time and A/R are being follow up. Challenge/analyze with the PMs when the project has deviations or you spot any concerns.
• Act as a Finance Business Partner to other team members within Corporate Controlling. Providing Data & Analytics whenever profound and in-depth knowledge about financial planning is required.
• Detailed review and analysis of financial clauses of client contracts in collaboration with the legal entity financial controllers and Global Tax Manager in the assessment of tax matters (VAT, WHT, PE risk and etc).
• Plan, execute and/or lead selected special projects that require cross-functional engagement and external stakeholders, controlling project activities to fulfil objectives and satisfy project requirements.
• M&A Activities: Hands-on execution of financial and operational matters from due diligence to post-acquisition integration.
Qualifications:
-Accredited University Finance, Economy or Engineering Degree
-Qualified Accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent) desired
Experience:
• Minimum of 10 years solid Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis on Corporate/Group Controlling level and project costing, including 5 years in similar role.
•Experience in a global management consulting firm is a must have.
•Experience and knowledge of tax implications (VAT, WHT and etc.) is preferred.
•Exposure to M&A due diligence and post-acquisition/integration activities.
•Very good command of ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics 365 desirable) and advanced Power Point and Excel skills including macros.
•Strong organizational skills, structured, results driven. Able to cope with changing environment and priorities.
•Hands-on, pragmatic, able to translate theoretical knowledge into business reality.
•Team player focused on results and collaboration.
•Proven experience of business partnering, commercial acumen and understanding business strategy.
•Excellent financial communication skills tailored for senior leaders and the ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships across global teams.
-Travel is not a major component of this position, although you may occasionally be asked to travel domestically for team meetings
