Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

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Job description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage a team of 3. Make decisions on department staffing.

• Coach employees to broaden their capabilities.

• Direct the preparation of Budgets/Forecasts for Platform business P&L, including: revenue, margin, operating expenses and contribution margin.

• Ensure Budgets/Forecasts have the right product and customer detail to provide insight on revenue, margin, and trade-off's between price and volume

• Monitor and track attainment of forecasts, provide analytics on progress and make recommendations to improve financial performance

• Work closely with Engineering to ensure actions are in place to achieve budgets: oversee the team's tracking of headcount, materials expense, and other key expense items

• Be a key business partner, assist Business Operations, Manufacturing Operations, and Engineering on their decisions to optimize financial performance.

• Lead the quarter end close activities, review and approve journals for revenue and operating expenses.

• Oversee the preparation and presentation of business cases that support product decisions as part of the Platform Product Life Cycle process

• Lead at least one key continuous improvement projects as part of the HDD BU Finance team.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor of Business/Accounting (essential)

• MBA (preferred but not essential)

• Proven Management skills (preferred but not essential)

• Prior experience with business cases (preferred but not essential)

• Ability to analyze results and provide inferences and conclusions

• Knowledge of accounting standards