Manager, Finance & Planning

Manager, Finance & Planning JACKSONVILLE, Florida Corporate - Accounting & Finance Hybrid 6151 or Job Description Overview Who We Are: As a privately held, U.S.-owned and operated company, Crowley provides services to 36 nations and island territories. Our purpose is to bravely advance what's possible to elevate people and planet, with our core values of Integrity, Sustainability and Drive guiding everything we do. By expanding and innovating our services, we have expanded our footprint in services within the Logistics, Land Transportation, Shipping, Wind and Fuel industries. Crowley and its affiliated companies have generated more than $3.5 billion in annual revenue through our people's focus on excellence and a culture that values everyone's voices and collaboration. To continue laying the groundwork and challenge what's possible for our business, we seek to partner with individuals ready to elevate their careers with us. Work Arrangement: Hybrid Why Join Crowley? The Manager, Finance & Planning plays a pivotal role in translating complex financial results into clear, decision-ready insights for executive leadership. By consolidating forecasts, explaining key variances, and partnering with business leaders, this role ensures the organization understands what changed, why it changed, and how to act. The position drives forecast accuracy, strengthens financial discipline, and elevates financial storytelling through strong analytics, systems, and communication. Ultimately, this role directly influences strategic decisions and business performance. Responsibilities What You'll Do: The Manager, FP&A leads end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning while delivering clear, actionable insights that inform strategic and operational decisions. This role partners closely with executive leadership, divisions, and corporate teams to translate complex financial data into decision ready narratives, drive alignment, and embed balance sheet and working capital ownership across the organization. The position combines disciplined, integrated financial modeling, leadership of high impact finance transformation initiatives, people development, and the thoughtful adoption of advanced analytics and AI enabled tools to elevate FP&A effectiveness. Key Responsibilities: Enterprise FP&A Decision Support & Execution: Lead end to end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes; develop and maintain advanced financial models to support enterprise decision making; and deliver clear, actionable insights by analyzing trends, risks, and growth opportunities. Drive continuous improvements in financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities, including planning cycle leadership, reporting enhancements, and finance transformation initiatives. Independently prioritize and execute work with minimal oversight, resolve complex and escalated issues. Governed Financial Modeling Experience with Balance Sheet Focus: Build capabilities with integrated models across income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. Guide business units in adopting full ownership of working capital and balance sheet forecasting. Partnership & Influence: Collaborate directly with division and corporate units to support strategic decision-making, financial planning, and performance analysis. This includes translating financial insights into actionable recommendations and fostering cross-functional alignment. Financial Storytelling & Communication: Distill complex financial data, analyses, and scenarios into clear, concise, and decision-oriented narratives tailored to diverse audiences—from executive leadership to divisional and operational teams—enabling alignment, understanding, and action. Team Development & Capability Building: Mentor and develop FP&A team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. Curiosity & Modern FP&A Enablement: Research, pilot, and operationalize advanced analytics, AI enabled tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot), and enterprise FP&A planning platforms—bringing hands on experience with system implementations and process redesign to strengthen insight quality, productivity, and analytical rigor. Qualifications Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field. MBA or advanced degree is a plus. CFA/CPA preferred. Experience: 5+ years of experience operating in finance planning and analysis. Technical Skills: Proficiency with Microsoft Office products. Advanced Excel proficiency: expertise in building dynamic financial models and dashboards; strong command of Excel shortcuts; ability to create and maintain macros; skilled in pivot tables, lookups, index-match and conditional formatting. Intermediate PowerPoint presentation skills: ability to structure and format slides for executive level communication; experience with translating complex financial data into clear, visual storytelling; comfortable working within corporate templates and adhering to brand standards. Demonstrated ability to research, evaluate, and adopt emerging technologies—including AI enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot—to improve financial analysis, reporting, and planning processes. Competencies: Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships. Ability to prepare, monitor and administer budgets, as well as the ability to perform financial analysis. Ability to contribute meaningfully to forecasting processes, Ability to troubleshoot intendencies confidently. Ability to function effectively with, or as part of a team. Ability to operate with minimal oversight, demonstrating initiative ownership, stakeholder management. Ability to prioritize, organize and perform multiple work assignments simultaneously while meeting assigned deadlines. Ability to develop, improve and streamline processes to meet established goals and objectives. Ability to effectively manage projects that may vary in nature and scope and deliver in ambiguous environments. Ability to mentor, coach, train and/or supervise employees and guide adoption of new tools and processes. Knowledge of data analysis techniques and methodology. Knowledge of the concepts, principles and practices of accounting, budgeting and cost control procedures. Knowledge of and ability to apply the concepts, principles and practices of change management. Job Scope: Position impacts multiple business units/segments. Working Conditions: Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like. Extended use of a computer keyboard, viewing of a computer monitor and the ability to sit for long periods of time. What We Offer? We inspire top talent by offering a comprehensive and competitive package that supports the diverse needs of our people—on land, at sea, in offices, and remotely. Our Total Rewards include: Competitive pay with recognition programs Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, and paid vacation and holidays Leave and family support: parental leave and sick leave Learning and growth: access to training and development for continuous skill development Well-being resources: Employee Assistance Program, wellness program, and gym membership discounts At Crowley, we invest in you—your success, your health, and your future.