Senior FP&A Analyst - Products

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Job description

Job Summary:

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team provides finance partnership to business leaders across all functions at the Company. The FP&A team drives reporting and analysis to support strategic decisions, conducts regular business reviews with the Operational and Departmental business partners and manages financial processes such as planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting. The Company is looking for a motivated, high energy financial analyst to join the FP&A team. This position is located in the Hayward, CA headquarters and is currently remote until further COVID guidelines are established.

A key component of the job is reporting and analysis to provide information, insight and guidance to senior leadership on BU performance to support investment decisions, initiative prioritization and other business issues.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Timely and accurate preparation of weekly, monthly and quarterly management reporting packages with variance analysis and commentary versus forecast, budget (AOP) and prior year.
• Provide accurate and insightful analysis and reporting, using current and past trends of key P&L and BS performance indicators.
• Manage and partner with the manufacturing site owners to prepare the Mid Qtr, Quarterly forecast and AOP. Understand site performance and provide support for margin improvement.
• Ownership of the opex and capex reporting, providing commentary of variances to forecast / AOP, including providing quarterly updates to the forecast.
• Report and manage headcount approvals in line with AOP and forecast.
• Primary lead and owner of the Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software (Adaptive Insights) used for planning and reporting.
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure that the FP&A planning tool (Adaptive Insights) is accurate for actuals, forecast, AOP, data hierarchies, general ledger accounts and departments.
• Lead, refine and drive process improvement to support existing and new reporting requirements, develop and automate financial models and analyses.
• Anticipate executive management reporting needs and deliver timely, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis.
• Provide support and financial analysis for projects and strategic initiatives.
• Prepare presentations for the Audit Committee and senior management team.
• Ad-Hoc modeling, reporting and analysis as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate technical discipline (Accounting / Finance) or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing and/or cost accounting, FP&A, modeling and forecasting, preferably at an international publicly traded company.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work across all levels of management.
• 2-3 years Adaptive Insights (administrative, reporting and maintenance) experience required / preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems, particularly SAP would be an advantage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and accuracy.
• Organized, proactive and driven self-starter with business awareness and partnering across sites.
• Work under tight deadlines and ability to multitask in a dynamic and matrix environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.