Manager, FP & A

We are rebel watchmakers with a purpose. Established in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company, we took a traditional European watchmaking and layered American industrial ingenuity on top. That is when we began our journey to disrupt a 300 year-old industry. Timex took mantle clocks made from wood and made them out of metal and made them faster and affordable for everyone. We took the pocket watch, added a strap, and put it on your wrist. Today our design lab in Milan designs the most beautiful watches for consumers around the world. Come join our team, make a difference, and wear watches from Timex and some of the biggest brands in the world.

**This role is hybrid and requires 2 days a week on-site in our Shelton, CT office. Remote candidates will not be considered**

Summary

Reporting to the Director FP&A - the Manager will provide support to our US business. This role will partner closely with the commercial team, providing a wide breadth of exposure to the top-level executives. The Manager with collaborate with business partners to drive strategic projects, long-range planning, manage and forecast operating costs, compiling management reporting and leading financial review meetings with executives, participating in cross-functional workstreams, and providing analytical support.

This fast-paced role provides unique opportunity to drive finance business partnership and strategy across the organization. The successful candidate will challenge the status-quo to drive business insights and continuous improvement, be data and results oriented, have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, possess a high comfort with financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as finance lead on the development of annual operating budgets, monthly and quarterly forecasts and reporting monthly financial results with analyses of variances
• Report progress toward company and department-specific financial goals and metrics
• Ensure business partners have the information they need to meet financial goals and, in some cases, help them build tools to achieve improved results
• Effectively collaborate with the Accounting team on completion of monthly and quarterly financial closes and incorporation of actual results into the rolling forecast
• Partner effectively with Sales and Operational leadership to develop and improve the accuracy of data-based financial plans and forecasts, identify risks and opportunities, and communicate performance against those business plans and budgets in a timely manner
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business
• Perform financial analysis to interpret trends, variances from plan/forecast
• Requires recurring report production and variance analysis as well as ad-hoc analysis as needed to address evolving changes with the business
• Approve/validate purchase requisitions to ensure compliance within budget and forecast guidelines
• Manage customer pricing across business unites and price models

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting orFinance
• 5 years’ experience in financial accounting with 3-4 spent in FP& A
• Excellent Excel and data manipulation experience
• Financial Modeling experience, preferably in the consumer-packaged goods industry or a manufacturing company
• Strong financial analysis skills, including financial modeling
• Strong understanding of accounting concepts, US GAAP
• Ability to understand big-picture and be detail-oriented
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to multi task, prioritize and delegate as needed
• Demonstrated experience in identifying process improvement opportunities and engaging in implementing improvements

In addition to our wide product offering, Timex Group offers the following benefits:

• 401KRobust Medical, Dental, Vision Plans
• Generous Company Holidays/Vacation
• Extended Sick and Personal
• Summer Fridays all year long!
• Parental Leave Policy

Timex Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.