About the position
The Finance Manager will be a key strategic partner to the Divisional President and leadership team, providing critical insights and analytics to drive business performance. This role requires a proactive thought leader who excels in financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and ad hoc analysis. As the subject matter expert in operations and end-to-end sales reporting, the Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategies. They will collaborate closely with divisional leaders to set and manage financial targets, ensure deadlines are met, and drive measurable results.
Responsibilities
• Lead budgeting across the division, with an emphasis on revenue and margin
• Enhance forecasting and analysis of profitability across regional and customer segments.
• Drive accountability for strategic program commitments and initiatives, ensuring execution and transparency, supported by thoughtful analysis.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis in response to changing markets and/or at the request of external constituents.
• Conduct weekly and monthly variance analysis, highlighting themes and trends, and creating actionable recommendations for performance improvement.
• Implement consistent processes that generate actionable insights for operations and sales leaders.
• Build/enhance/leverage tools and dashboards to measure and track performance against goals.
• Work with field operations and branch leaders to refine, enhance, and validate branch P&Ls.
• Ensure validity and reasonableness in the roll up of branch P&Ls into consolidated P&Ls at region, market, and division level.
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 6 – 8 years of experience in a professional services business or a similar B2B type of business
• Expertise in defining, modeling, tracking, and reporting KPIs
• Ability to effectively communicate the current financial and operational performance of the business with leadership
• Comfortable engaging with, and relating to, all levels of the organization
• Has proven experience working with leadership on crafting, executing, and tracking strategic initiatives
• Identifies key components of problems and situations, generating a range of creative solutions, evaluates them, and chooses the most appropriate option.
• Proven self-starter. Takes accountability and ownership for problem-solving and prioritizes activities with input from leadership.
Nice-to-haves
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Proficient in modeling and the use of business intelligence tools
• Has established or built out FP&A capabilities – e.g., AOP, budgeting process and cadence, driver-based forecasting
• Workday Adaptive experience preferred
• Private equity experience preferred
Benefits
• High EQ/High IQ team
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision benefits starting on the first of the month following hire date
• 8 Paid Holidays per year
• 2 Floating Holidays per year
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k)
• Wellness Program
• Parental Leave