What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis position at CDP?
Closing Date: 18 February 2025 - 5:00 PM ET
Expected Start Date: 17 March 2025
Location(s): USA - Hybrid/Remote
Salary Range: $100,000 - $110,000 annually
Process: Screening questions via email and 2 interviews
Reports to the Chief Financial Officer
CDP is an equal employment opportunity employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. We welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodation in order to participate fully in our recruitment process by sending a message to the recruiter connected to the role. They may be contacted directly by responding to any message you receive through our system after applying.
Who We Are
At CDP, we are on a mission to solve our planet’s biggest environmental challenges: climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. We believe you can’t manage what you don’t measure – so we run the world’s largest environmental disclosure system. For the past two decades, our team has worked tirelessly to create a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term – we accomplish this by engaging the global actors who wield the greatest influence in driving environmental change: companies, cities, governments, and the capital markets.
CDP’s cascading global impact is powered by our tight-knit team of smart, savvy, curious and committed individuals, who share a common passion for creating a sustainable future. It is our people who make our work possible. And we provide our people with a working environment that empowers each individual to reach their full potential: one that is committed to equity; one that provides equal access for growth and development; and one that supports each individual throughout the full employee life cycle.
About The Financial Planning & Analysis Team
The FP&A team brings clarity and standardization to CDP’s global numbers. Working closely with the Global Controller’s team, we provide financial information, insight and analysis for both external reporting, and CDP’s internal decision making and governance.
Who You Are
Expected Start Date: 17 March 2025
Location(s): USA - Hybrid/Remote
Salary Range: $100,000 - $110,000 annually
Process: Screening questions via email and 2 interviews
Reports to the Chief Financial Officer
CDP is an equal employment opportunity employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. We welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodation in order to participate fully in our recruitment process by sending a message to the recruiter connected to the role. They may be contacted directly by responding to any message you receive through our system after applying.
Who We Are
At CDP, we are on a mission to solve our planet’s biggest environmental challenges: climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. We believe you can’t manage what you don’t measure – so we run the world’s largest environmental disclosure system. For the past two decades, our team has worked tirelessly to create a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term – we accomplish this by engaging the global actors who wield the greatest influence in driving environmental change: companies, cities, governments, and the capital markets.
CDP’s cascading global impact is powered by our tight-knit team of smart, savvy, curious and committed individuals, who share a common passion for creating a sustainable future. It is our people who make our work possible. And we provide our people with a working environment that empowers each individual to reach their full potential: one that is committed to equity; one that provides equal access for growth and development; and one that supports each individual throughout the full employee life cycle.
About The Financial Planning & Analysis Team
The FP&A team brings clarity and standardization to CDP’s global numbers. Working closely with the Global Controller’s team, we provide financial information, insight and analysis for both external reporting, and CDP’s internal decision making and governance.
Who You Are
- Must reside and be eligible to work in the locations stipulated above
- Possess Finance experience, including knowledge of annual budgeting processes and charity/nonprofit finances
- Strong Excel skills, ideally some familiarity with Power BI, PowerQuery, VBA or similar, and the ability to flexibly and quickly manipulate and clearly present data
- Organized and able to manage own workload
- Ability and desire to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers
- Interest in systems improvement
- Develop, mentor and manage a team of financial analysts delivering the global financial planning, and analysis functions of CDP
- Create, promote and facilitate a collaborative, supportive, positive, respectful and transparent work environment
- Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with leadership and staff at all levels throughout the organization
- Interact regularly with senior leadership across CDP as a trusted partner
- Development and delivery of global cash forecasting, with applicable scenario modeling, in collaboration with regional and functional leaders
- Development and delivery of the annual global budget / monthly reforecast process, improving strategic alignment of resource allocation through close collaboration with the CEOs office and regional / functional leaders
- Collaborate with sales, product and development teams to analyze sales and customer trends, including key KPI’s (e.g. cost to acquire, customer lifetime value, customer retention rates etc.), develop dashboards and understand business trends to provide insights into income forecasts
- Develop ad hoc and multi-year financial modelling to inform financial planning, including scenario and sensitivity analysis, and strategic decision making
- Support periodic global financial reporting, enabling the provision of clear, consistent, and accurate global information (P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, including variance analysis).
Salary : $100,000 - $110,000
