Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
CooperCompaniesThe Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis provides financial leadership for Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Inventory, Distribution, and Freight operations across CooperSurgical. The position serves as a key business partner to the VP of Supply Chain and VP of Distribution and is responsible for financial planning, operational performance management, strategic decision support, and team leadership. The role leads a team of FP&A professionals supporting a complex global supply chain and distribution network and reports to the Director of Global Operations Finance. This position is responsible for leading the monthly, quarterly, and annual planning and forecasting processes for the Supply Chain and Distribution & Logistics functions, as well as providing actionable financial analysis and variance insights to support business performance. The role partners closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Distribution leadership to develop financial models, evaluate risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations that support strategic and operational decision-making. The Senior Manager provides leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to the Supply Chain and Distribution FP&A team, ensuring consistent financial support, planning rigor, and business partnership across the organization. This individual drives continuous improvement in financial processes, develops organizational capabilities, and identifies opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, productivity, and forecasting accuracy. In addition, the role maintains responsibility for annual material standard costing processes and provides financial oversight and guidance related to inventory management, cycle count programs, cost accounting, and related business systems. The successful candidate will be a proactive leader who drives change, advances analytical capabilities, supports strategic initiatives, and delivers insights that improve business performance and financial results. Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis CooperSurgical Inc. Trumbull, CT CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women’s and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at www.coopersurgical.com. Prior experience within a manufacturing environment is a MUST HAVE for this role. Direct, hands-on experience in creating, tracking and controlling actual, forecast and budget metrics. Quickness of comprehension, willingness to be hands-on and to understand a complex Global Chart of Accounts Strong acumen and experience with a Financial Consolidation system is a must have (HFM, Adaptive Planning or similar) Willingness and ability to dig into ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics D365, Navision or similar) and data warehouses to consolidate detail comprehensively and synthesize results. Strong track record of business partnership Aptitude to learn and understand unique business models and enable continuous improvement Prior experience managing employees; able to be a mentor and coach to direct reports Proactively drive projects within Supply Chain & Distribution; understand when to delegate and provide guidance and when to lead Ability to analyze actual vs. plan results and summarize underlying drivers of variances as well as providing clear and succinct interpretati…