Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

DescriptionOverview of the Role:The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted adviser to the business to help inform and guide decision-making through insightful analyses and strategic partnership. We are looking for a highly driven, independent, and analytically-minded individual who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of building and improving scalable processes.This manager will be a member of the Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) F&S team. They will be the financial business partner to the CIO organization, partnering with the business to provide decision support through financial analysis to ensure optimal returns on strategic investments. The nature of the work will include short term and long term financial planning, detailed analytic models, building scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards, packaging findings into presentation-ready content, and presenting this content to Salesforce executives. The ideal candidate must be adept operating at both a strategic and tactical level.ResponsibilitiesPrepare and deliver clear, compelling, and concise financial updates and presentations to the CIO leadership team and other executive stakeholders, translating complex financial data into actionable business narratives.Lead the development, analysis, and management of the short-term and long-term financial plans. This includes long range plan, annual budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close variance analysis.Independently address new analytical requests, understand the main question being asked, gather relevant data, build models, validate assumptions, perform analysis, and present executive-level summarized results in a compelling manor.Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate potential investments, cost-saving initiatives, and strategic business decisions.Partner with business and accounting teams to understand and analyze monthly budget variances, and present actionable insights that help the organization flex and react to short-term changes.Lead and support various ad-hoc financial projects and deep-dives as required by the business leadership.Required QualificationsBA/BS degree or equivalent experience and minimum of 5+ years FP&A or relevant work experience. Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.).Core foundational FP&A experience: accounting, planning, forecasting, variance analysisExperience building financial and decision support models, along with good analytical and independent problem-solving skillsTrack record of identifying opportunities and successfully leading process improvement or other strategic projectsHigh degree of comfort with ambiguity and an ability to effectively multi-task in a fast-paced, quickly changing environmentAbility to work cross-functionally and influence at all levels within the organizationStrong MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview, Tableau and Google suite, or other financial and data visualization softwareGood communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to explain complex issues in an understandable wayIntellectual curiosity, fueled by a proactive approach to continuously expand one’s skillsetThis role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week in Indianapolis, IN or Atlanta, GA.