Our partner, a global manufacturing leader, is looking to add a growth-driven individual to their North American Corporate Finance team. This 300M division of a 10B European parent is highly acquisitive and continues to grow. As such, the leadership team is looking for a Senior Manager of FP&A to assist with the growing demands of the business.
Overview:
The Sr. Manager, Corporate Finance will serve as a key member of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team reporting directly to the Vice President of FP&A. This high visibility role will be the trusted Finance business partner to the business.
The candidate will have a strong background in business partnering with a strong knowledge of SAP. This role will also be responsible for providing support to the upfitting business through deep analytics and modeling, participating in cross-functional workstreams, pricing, and collaborating with business partners to manage and forecast operating costs.
The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation of finance experience, excellent communication skills, and be able to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, high growth environment.
Responsibilities:
Business Partnering
 Be a go-to partner for executive level leadership on actual financial results, budgeting, and forecasting of headcount, capital and operating expenses.
 Partner with sales to forecast revenue and customer profitability.
 Partner effectively with other teams including Corporate Accounting, PVG Accounting, FP&A, AR/AP, Operations and Sales.
Financial Analysis
 Assist in monthly and quarterly management reporting and analysis, including top-line reporting packages.
 Breaking down financial results into meaningful insights - analyze data to tell a story and present it to influence decision making.
 Build financial models, run scenario analysis, and provide data analytics to identify areas of risk and opportunity.
 Address new requests: understand the core question being asked, capture needed data, build models, validate assumptions, perform analyses, summarize, and present results in a compelling manner.
 Identifying and monitoring key business model drivers on a go-forward basis
 Prepare ad-hoc analyses for senior leadership on critical business issues, especially regarding profitability assessments, investment feasibility scenarios, and capital deployment studies. 
 Apply strong business judgment to develop a wide variety of analytic tools and KPIs, and to construct a deep understanding of how product profit-and-loss (P&L) is impacted by business and financial drivers, including how those metrics translate to user behavior, business opportunity, and financial outcomes.
Financial Processes and Systems
 Identify and drive enhancement, automation, implementation and scale reporting packages and systems.
 Validate expenses and sales between our reporting tools.
 Manage budgeting and planning processes with business partners.
 Implement process improvements that enhance the efficiency and capability of the larger business Finance team.
Qualifications:
 Able to interact comfortably with the executive leadership.
 Outstanding SAP experience.
 Willing to report into the office three days per week.
 A great team player with positive demeanor, collaboratively focused, and team oriented.
 Impeccable financial decision-making and ability to influence effectively with business partners, finance teams, and executive stakeholders.
 Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to lead, set objectives, and seek results - articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
 Intellectually curious and interested in understanding beyond the “what” as to the “why” when conducting analyses.
 Ability to think creatively; Builder who is ambitious. Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.
 Proficient in working in large data sets and identifying trends / anomalies against expectations.
 Capable of communicating complex financial information in an easy-to-understand format. 
 This role is for doers with an extreme level of ownership; those able to get into the details and get the job done while seeing the forest for the trees.
 Comfortable completing projects requiring individual initiative and flexibility in tight time frames with minimal supervision.
 Excited about working in a fast-paced environment with fluidity and ever-changing business.
 Possessing a prior educational background in accounting, finance, or economics, along with 10 years of relevant work experience.
 Superior forecasting methods and techniques. Advanced analytical and quantitative abilities.
 Strong financial acumen broadly across the organization (e.g., understanding of financial statements, chart of accounts, business intelligence, FP&A processes, etc.)
 Demonstrated understanding of GAAP accounting and key non-GAAP metrics.
 Bachelor's degree in business, finance or related field or equivalent practical experience.
 CPA/CMA/MBA preferred, but not required in lieu of additional direct experience.
 Manufacturing, distribution, or consumer packaging is preferred.