Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Industry leader in the consumer packaged goods industry

Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

East SGV / North OC

3 days per week in office

$130-150K plus bonus

The Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis will be responsible for providing the executive leadership team critical analysis and recommendations that will fuel our continued profitable, double-digit growth.

This person will:

• Identify key revenue growth and profit improvement opportunities
• Help craft the three year strategic plan and annual operating plans
• Provide monthly financial performance analysis and forecast commentary
• Work with functional leaders to identify projects that support the corporate strategic and operating plans
• Attract, develop, and retain a world-class team that is capable of partnering with business leaders to model the financial impact, establish KPIs, track progress, and successfully deliver projects that meet or exceed expectations
• Partner with HR & functional leaders to build staffing / headcount models
• Success in this role requires an individual with a sound business acumen who can comfortably navigate between the “what-if” world of financial models and the real-world challenges that successful businesses must overcome. This is a unique opportunity for the right dynamic, agile, intellectually curious individual to help lead a world-class finance team in a rapidly growing organization and make an immediate impact across the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Accounting.
• 7-10 or more years of relevant work experience (FP&A, business analysis, modeling).
• MBA preferred.
• Consumer products industry experience is highly preferred
• A well rounded individual that brings a great attitude.
• Intellectually curious, strategic thinker that is able to drive change through strong relationships/influence but is willing to roll up his/her sleeves to ensure success.
• Experience leading a world-class team; developing team members to grow their responsibilities and advance their careers.
• An entrepreneurial and innovative skillset to analyze, measure, problem solve, and present recommendations that provide visibility to forward looking opportunities.
• Must have the maturity and confidence to deal directly with C-level executives.
• Experience developing complex reports and providing summarized, actionable analysis to all levels of the organization.
• Makes decisions without perfect information.
• A history of exercising solid business judgment to help set/manage priorities and validate assumptions.
• Comfortable presenting to customers and working with trading partners throughout the value chain.
• Solid project planning and project management background.
• Works well with little oversight, owns projects from idea to implementation and delivers on time, under budget, and to scope.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to deliver time-sensitive analyses in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to accomplish complex objectives.
• Strong financial modeling skills including: developing models to understand complex business scenarios, gathering data from a variety of internal and external sources, validating it, performing analysis using flexible modeling techniques, drawing conclusions, translating them into action plans, and successfully executing against the plans.
• Tech savvy and high proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Ability to provide business recommendations without perfect information.
• Demonstrated experience driving revenue growth and cost savings, solid interaction with all business functions throughout the P&L.