What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Enterprise Performance FP&A position at World Kinect Corporation?
Manager, Enterprise Performance FP&A (Corporate) - Legal Finance Business Partner Responsible for driving the corporate performance management rhythm (plan/forecast cadence, month-end performance insights, executive narratives, and decision support) while serving as a secondary finance partner to the Legal function. This role connects results to the underlying business drivers, challenges assumptions, and ensures leaders have a clear view of risks, opportunities, and required actions-turning analysis into decisions and follow-through.
Primary Responsibilities - Enterprise Performance FP&A (Corporate)
- Lead the monthly/quarterly performance cadence for Corporate functions, delivering variance insights and executive-ready narratives.
- Own budget/forecast inputs for assigned cost centers with clear assumptions, key drivers, and accountability.
- Build driver-based models and scenarios to support cost actions, resourcing, and prioritization decisions.
- Deliver concise performance packs focused on "top drivers" and clear "so what / now what" actions.
- Maintain KPI dashboards/scorecards and improve adoption, clarity, and decision usefulness over time.
- Partner across Finance to align management views, reporting views, and forecast rollups; continuously improve templates, cycle time, and data quality.
Secondary Responsibilities - Finance Business Partner to Legal
- Own the Legal OpEx planning & forecasting cadence (budget, rolling forecast, scenario outlooks) with driver-based assumptions (outside counsel, major matters, projects).
- Deliver monthly performance insights for Legal leadership: variance vs. plan, top drivers, risks/opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Partner with Legal Ops/leadership to improve spend visibility and predictability (accrual discipline, forward pipeline for matters and large initiatives).
- Build and maintain KPI dashboards/scorecards for Legal financial management (run-rate vs. budget, firm/matter concentration, practice group trends, approval pipeline).
- Lead deep-dive analyses on cost drivers/levers (outside counsel strategy, rate/fee trends, matter prioritization, cost containment) and translate into decision-ready options.
- Run the monthly Finance-Legal partnership review process (materials, finance facilitation, action tracking and follow-ups).
- Provide ad hoc decision support on high-impact spend topics (scenario/sensitivity modeling for next 3-6 months and full-year outlook).
Qualifications / Profile
- 5 years in FP&A / corporate finance / business partnering with strong forecasting, variance analysis, and executive storytelling.
- Advanced modeling/analytics, strong judgment, and ability to influence without authority.
- Highly organized; effective across multiple stakeholders and timelines with a bias toward simplification and impact.
World Kinect Corporation
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