What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager position at A.R.M. Solutions?
FP&A Manager
The Role:
ARM Solutions is a rapidly growing, private equity-backed, full-service collections agency providing customized debt recovery solutions. We are hiring an FP&A Manager to build and own the company’s financial planning and analysis capability.
This is a newly created, execution-focused role reporting directly to the CFO. It is designed for a hands-on FP&A professional who thrives in fast-moving, PE-backed environments and enjoys building models, improving reporting, and partnering with the business to drive disciplined decision making.
The FP&A Manager will play a central role in how ARM plans, forecasts, prices its services, and evaluates customer profitability. While highly execution-oriented today, the role is expected to expand in scope as the business pursues acquisitions and continues to scale.
Key Responsibilities:
FP&A ownership and execution
- Own the company’s core FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, modeling, reporting, and financial analysis.
- Build a dynamic dashboard that provides real-time KPI’s, performance analytics and operating statistics with drill-down functionality
- Develop and maintain detailed FP&A models including annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario analyses.
- Establish forecasting discipline and improve visibility into revenue, margin, and EBITDA drivers, down to the individual client-level
- Partner directly with the CFO on annual planning, re-forecasting, and performance management.
Reporting and performance analysis
- Produce monthly management reporting with clear variance analysis and KPI tracking.
- Identify risks, opportunities, and performance drivers and translate them into actionable insights.
- Ensure reporting is accurate, consistent, and aligned with private equity operating expectations.
Pricing, commercial and customer analysis
- Lead pricing analysis and customer profitability modeling as a core mandate.
- Support commercial leaders with deal modeling, margin analysis, and pricing decisions.
- Evaluate customer mix, pricing changes, and growth initiatives through a value creation lens.
Systems, data and scale readiness
- Build scalable FP&A templates and processes that support growth and increased reporting needs.
- Serve as a key FP&A partner supporting the ERP implementation planned for early 2026, with a focus on data structure, collection, and reporting readiness.
- Operate effectively with evolving data while helping improve data quality and financial discipline.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to build or materially enhance FP&A models and processes.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required, Python knowledge a plus
- Strong analytical capability and comfort working with imperfect or evolving data.
- Experience with ERP migration is a plus
- Four to six years of FP&A or corporate finance experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; advanced degree preferred.
- Experience in a pe-backed, services-based, or high-growth environment strongly preferred.
Why this role?
- Direct partnership with the CFO in a PE-backed environment.
- Opportunity to build FP&A from the ground up and shape how the business measures performance.
- Meaningful ownership of pricing, profitability, and value creation analysis.
- Clear runway for expanded responsibility as the company continues to scale.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
- FP&A: 4 years (Preferred)
- advanced excel: 4 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Thousand Oaks, CA 91320