Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Primary Accountabilities: This is a highly visible, strategic finance leadership role where you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on business decisions and help shape the company's financial direction. Rather than simply managing budgets and forecasts, you'll serve as a trusted financial partner to senior leaders across Finance, HR, Legal, and Technology, helping drive smarter investments, optimize spending, and influence long-term business strategy. You'll take ownership of corporate financial planning, forecasting, executive reporting, and capital budgeting, while identifying opportunities to improve processes, leverage automation, and elevate the FP&A function. What makes this opportunity exciting is the combination of executive exposure, strategic influence, and ownership. You'll have the autonomy to drive meaningful improvements, challenge the status quo, and play a key role in how the business plans and invests for the future. We're looking for someone who enjoys going beyond the numbers, connecting financial insights to business strategy, and making a measurable impact. Major Responsibilities/Essential Functions: Corporate Function Financial Partnership Serve as the primary FP&A partner to leaders of Finance, Legal, Human Resources, and Technology; provide financial guidance on operating priorities, spending decisions, and the financial impact of proposed initiatives. Develop a deep understanding of expense drivers across supported functions, including compensation and benefits, open positions, contractors, professional services, technology platforms, vendor contracts, and other shared-service costs. Lead financial reviews with functional leaders to evaluate performance, challenge assumptions, identify savings opportunities, and recommend actions that align spending with company priorities. Partner on business cases, staffing plans, sourcing decisions, and organizational changes, including the assessment of financial trade-offs and potential returns. Budgeting, Forecasting & Long-Range Planning Own the annual operating budget and periodic forecast processes for assigned Corporate functions, including planning calendars, financial assumptions, submissions, consolidation, and leadership reviews. Build and maintain detailed, driver-based models for headcount, compensation, benefits, consulting, software, and other major cost categories in partnership with HR, Procurement, and functional owners. Develop rolling forecasts and multi-year outlooks; evaluate sensitivities, alternative scenarios, emerging business needs, and risks or opportunities to financial commitments. Explain changes from prior forecasts, budget, and actual results; establish clear ownership of assumptions and ensure plans are complete, supportable, and aligned with broader company financial objectives. Financial Reporting, Analytics & Business Insights Lead the preparation and review of monthly and quarterly management reporting for Corporate functions, including actual-to-budget and actual-to-forecast variance analysis, expense trends, and forward-looking commentary. Develop concise financial presentations, dashboards, and key performance indicators that equip executives and functional leaders to understand results, manage costs, and make informed decisions. Identify root causes of material variances, distinguish timing differences from structural cost changes, and recommend actions to address unfavorable trends or capture opportunities. Partner with Accounting during month-end close to review financial results, accruals, allocations, and expense classifications; ensure reporting reflects the underlying business activity. Lead ad hoc analysis and financial modeling to support strategic projects, vendor evaluations, organizational decisions, and leadership requests. Capital Budgeting Investment Oversight Own the annual capital budgeting and periodic capital forecast processes, coordinating submissions, approvals, project prioritization, and upd…

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