Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A & Finance Transformation

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The Senior Manager of Corporate FP&A & Finance Transformation is a strategic finance leader responsible for driving the company's enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, performance reporting, finance analytics, and transformation initiatives. 

The position leads the development of the annual business plan, long-range strategic planning process, monthly forecasting activities, and executive performance reporting while also advancing the finance organization's transformation agenda through process improvement, automation, digital technologies, AI, and finance systems optimization.

The postition is expected to improve forecast accuracy, increase organizational efficiency, enhance decision-making through data and analytics, and drive strategic finance transformation across the company.

Responsibilities:

Corporate FP&A Leadership

• Lead the global forecasting process, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, and key performance metrics.
• Coordinate the annual business plan and long-range strategic planning processes.
• Expand predictive analytics and forecasting capabilities.
• Oversee development of executive reporting packages for the CFO, CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors.
• Drive consistency, discipline, and standardization across business unit and regional forecasting  and reporting processes.

Finance Transformation

• Lead the Finance Transformation roadmap and portfolio of strategic initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and modernize finance processes.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled finance capabilities.
• Improve management reporting capabilities through enhanced analytics and visualization tools.
• Sponsor and lead finance system implementations, upgrades, and optimization efforts.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Build and lead a high-performing corporate FP&A and transformation team.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and business partnership.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration across Finance, IT, Operations, Commercial, and Corporate functions.

Minimum Qualifications 
  

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field with at least 10+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, controllership, consulting, or transformation experience.
• MBA preferred
• Experience leading enterprise planning and forecasting processes
• Proven track record of delivering finance transformation initiatives and process improvements
• Strong executive communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Finance systems experience, including ERP, planning/reporting platforms, PowerBI or advanced analytics
• Drive for continuous improvement 

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.