Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis
Location
United States
Level
Senior
Department
Finance
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
February 9, 2023
As an FP&A Senior Manager you will work alongside our Finance team to support business leadership. Teams across Shield AI will consult with and rely on you to provide financial consulting and strategic support to the leadership team. You are a self-starter who can anticipate questions and future challenges and are eager to help find data-driven solutions to those questions.
Responsibilities
- Help manage the financial planning processes including annual budget setting, monthly forecasts, creation and monitoring of financial goals, and setting long term plans.
- Create financial forecasts based on solid understanding of GAAP.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of cash flows and accruals related to complexities of long-term, multiple performance obligation contracts under ASC 606.
- Support contract negotiations and product pricing decisions.
- Analyze complex financial and operational data, provide accurate and timely recommendations to company leadership for decision making.
- Support financings, M&A activity, and minority investment activities, including creation of marketing materials and data room management.
- Support accounting, treasury, equity, and tax activities, including monthly close processes.
- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including revenue, cost of sales, expenses, capital expenditures and SaaS based KPIs; analyze and report on financial and operating trends and explain causes of variances and offer recommendations to minimize those variances.
- Collaborate with IT management in the selection, development, implementation, maintenance, and training of business intelligence tools across the company.
- Collaborate with executive leadership and departmental leaders to develop and implement recommendations for ongoing and annual planning processes.
- You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
Job Requirements
- At least 8-10 years of relevant Finance experience to include:
- Progressive financial analysis and planning experience including corporate FP&A responsibility.
- Experiencing in managing a team.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP accounting and how it applies to financial planning and analysis.
- Demonstrated experience taking ownership of measuring and reporting performance.
- Strong experience building financial models in excel.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience (preferably in Business/Accounting/Finance).
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA in Business, Accounting, or Finance.
- Experience with high-growth technology or investment banking
- Experience with Cost Point, Salesforce and/or similar systems.
- You are a creative and strategic thinker with the ability to think outside the box.
- You are patient, you are kind, you have poise, and you don’t shy away from delivering excellent work even while facing tight deadlines.
- You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others.
- You are detail-oriented and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize workload effectively, and thrive in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent communication and project management skills.