What are the responsibilities and job description for the FP&A Manager position at Zipcar?
Zipcar has an exciting role open for a Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). This role supports the Zipcar business from a strategic and analytical perspective. The candidate in this position will marry operational aspects of the business into financial impacts allowing Zipcar to make the best strategic decisions for growth.
What you’ll do:
Glad you asked! Zipcar is the world’s leading car-sharing network, found in urban areas and university campuses in more than 500 cities and towns. Our team is smart, creative and fun, and we’re driven by a mission – to enable simple and responsible urban living.
The extra mile:
We encourage Zipsters to bring their whole selves to work - unique perspectives, personal experiences, backgrounds, and however they identify. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer – M/F/D/V.
Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America
What you’ll do:
- Oversee all Zipcar’s operating expenses from the financial perspective; full ownership of results
- Consistently guide and deliver structured, insightful and actionable problem-solving analysis for key financial and business metrics, executing the analysis with high level of accuracy, surfacing the insight, visualizing the data and telling the story
- Develop and analyze monthly and periodic forecasts, annual business plans, and financial strategic planning initiatives.
- Strategic partnership with executive management and stakeholders across the organization; responsible for presenting financial results, drivers and report variances versus prior year, current forecast, and business plan to be presented to leaders
- Expertly create and advise on financial outcomes and ROI for strategic initiatives; generate ideas for growth and improvement
- Model various P&L line items related to the organization’s business operations
- Perform ad-hoc financial analysis and provide financial support to business partners in various projects.
- Lead a team of analysts to deliver results within their financial remit
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or in a quantitative field or related business discipline. MBA is a plus
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ relevant corporate finance experience. Auto/supply-chain industry background a plus.
- Expert Excel and elaborate financial modeling skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
- Experience with Oracle Financial Suit/financial planning interface; experience with a data visualization / BI tool
- Ability to query, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately
- Requires excellent analytical ability, attention to detail, and ability to work independently and in teams.
- Must possess strong critical thinking skills, strong initiative and curiosity, communication skills and can develop
- Ability to effectively manage multiple models, projects and priorities
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to provide service and work effectively with diverse groups of people at various levels within the organization
- Experience with Alteryx, SQL, R and/or Python would be a plus.
- Proven ability to lead a successful team and develop internal talent effectively
- Opportunity to make an impact, and develop and grow outside the normal lines of your role to help the business, empowerment and ownership of your work
- Collaborative, bring your whole self to work, authenticity, humility, diverse, respect one another, supportive of each other’s successes, friendly, FUN, talented in and out of the office, we have thought leaders in our midst
- Exposure to and detailed working knowledge of a broad-spectrum of leaders and departments across the company and Avis Budget Group; ability to be highly influential to the growth trajectory of Zipcar
- Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance and other voluntary benefits through our parent company, Avis Budget Group
- Generous paid time off, including holidays, vacation, personal, sick, volunteer and Parental Leave options
- Tax-free benefit for public transportation or parking expenses
- Bicycle Reimbursement program
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with company matched contributions
- Free Zipcar Membership and other employee discounts, including discounts on renting and buying Avis/Budget cars
- Community involvement opportunities
Glad you asked! Zipcar is the world’s leading car-sharing network, found in urban areas and university campuses in more than 500 cities and towns. Our team is smart, creative and fun, and we’re driven by a mission – to enable simple and responsible urban living.
The extra mile:
We encourage Zipsters to bring their whole selves to work - unique perspectives, personal experiences, backgrounds, and however they identify. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer – M/F/D/V.
Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America