FP&A Senior Manager

Title: Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager
Location: Houston, TX

Petroplan is working exclusively with a leading vertically integrated Power company. We are recruiting a top caliber Senior FP&A Manager for a position, based in Houston, who meets the following criteria.
 
 
Position Overview:
 
The Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager will be responsible for driving the company's financial planning, analysis, and strategic decision-making processes. 
Key Responsibilities

• implement and oversee quality control measures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial data and reports.
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes (both accrual and cash basis), ensuring alignment with the company’s financial goals and strategy.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic initiatives and business planning, providing insights into performance and decision-making.
• Conduct scenario analysis and risk assessments to evaluate potential impacts on the business, supporting proactive decision-making.
• Monitor and support the monthly closing processes, ensuring compliance with financial regulations,company policies, and internal controls.
• Monitor weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts, ensuring accurate liquidity planning.
• Compare actual cash flows against forecasts to identify variances and take corrective action.
• Partner with treasury and accounting teams to optimize cash management strategies, ensuring thecompany’s financial health and liquidity.
• Collaborate with lines of business leaders, finance, and accounting teams to prepare monthly financial performance reports, including variances in costs, revenues, operating expenses, R&D, and capital expenditures (both accrual and cash).
• Continuously track KPIs, identify causes of variances, and provide actionable insights to senior management to drive informed decision-making.
• Support line of business leaders and senior finance teams in preparing board and management presentations for budget approval, variance analysis, and updated forecasts.
• Forecast and track key bank covenant ratios across multiple financings to ensure compliance with bank agreements.
• Work collaboratively to drive improvements in financial processes, leveraging tools, systems, automation,and standardization to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Lead or participate in special projects contributing to the overall success of the finance function.
• Recruit, manage, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, ensuring alignment with company objectives and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Act in accordance with company policies and corporate objectives, maintaining alignment with theorganization’s overall mission and guidelines.
  

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA and/or professional certifications preferred).
• Proven experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (6 years).
• A proven track record of implementing and managing FP&A processes and controls.
• Strong expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and make recommendations based on insights.
• Ability to communicate complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and project management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Great Plains Financials, OneStream, BI/Data analytics and financial modeling tools.
• Advanced Microsoft Office experience, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Prior experience with ERP systems implementation projects is a plus.