Program Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Position Summary

The Program Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, cost assurance, internal reporting, and related analysis of financial and sales performance. The Program Manager is responsible for overseeing the preparation of various reporting measures including budgets, long term models, BVR’s and KPI’s which drives accountability within the company and improves customer experience outside the organization. The Program Manager balances between finance and operations and works cross functionally to present key data on multiple platforms to support decision-making throughout the business. The role is responsible for optimizing cost of goods sold spending.

Essential Functions

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Lead the creation and maintenance of the company’s annual operating budget, including sales, revenue, cogs, operating expense, gross margin, capital spending and balance sheet.
• Drive analysis of actual results vs. budgeted, forecasted and historical results. Provide meaningful variance analysis of key drivers impacting results and trends. Support all departments in managing their budgets.
• Oversee the development of financial models, forecasting tools and ad-hoc analysis to assist the senior leadership team with strategic decisions. Assist the Director FP&A with the maintenance of the long- term forecast model.
• Lead the budget process, resulting in preparation of detailed, driver-based operating and capital budgets. Partner with all areas of the company to understand key drivers of revenue, COGS, operating expense and capital and ensure consistent assumptions across all areas. Lead the development of the five-year forecast.
• Perform other duties and complete projects not specified on this job description, as assigned.
  
  

Position Qualifications

• Business and Process Leadership – A keen understanding of business processes including sales, customer service, ordering, service delivery, billing, customer support, capital spending and cost assurance with the ability to map processes and understand inter-linkages to each other and to the systems that support the processes. Ability to drive process metrics and measures, measurement points in a process and the ability to drive customer experience improvements and process change. Strong capabilities in vendor management and integrating vendor provided support to technical and process functions of the engineering organization.
• Analytical Skill - Ability to use critical thinking and reasoning in gathering and processing complex data with succinct decision making skills.
• Financial Aptitude - Ability to understand and explain economic and accounting information, prepare and manage budgets and forecasts, and make sound long-term investment decisions.
• Business Acumen – Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communication Skills - Successful candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Position will require frequent preparation and delivery of detailed plans and proposals at the executive and Board level. Strong communication/interpersonal skills with emphasis on decision- making, conflict management, and team building and teamwork. Must have ability to develop work plans, work effectively as a member of a team, report on status of projects, and represent the team in meetings and/or with the customer, and be able to coordinate issues identification and resolution between customers and the development team. Ability to present complicated information in an easily understandable way in front of large audiences.
• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Adaptability – Ability to preserve flexibility in a fast-paced environment, and continually evolve to meet the changing business needs.
• Project Management – Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
• Collaboration – This position has a high degree of interaction across the organization, and as such requires skills to work with peers and superiors that have many other competing priorities for their time.
  
  

Skills & Abilities

Education: Minimum: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting or related field. Preferred: Master's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting or related field.

Experience: Six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, or a closely related discipline.

Computer Skills

Demonstrated proficiency working with the Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, Access, and

Outlook.

Other Requirements

Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in an organization’s business processes, as well as the skill to conduct root cause analysis. Aptitude to effectively manage work groups and teams to successful completion, including planning, implementation, follow-through, monitoring and the refining of processes as needed to support ACS business requirements

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