ADP is hiring a Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis.
As Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis, you will provide financial and strategic decision support to the business to ensure achievement of short- and long-term financial goals. Collaborating with management and other partners, the Manager facilitates understanding of the business dynamics which includes productivity analysis, margin improvement, and business analysis (including client retention, loss reporting and quality metrics).
Driving financial best practices, the Manager will optimize financial opportunities regarding revenue enhancement and expense management throughout the organization. The Manager acts as a support function to the operating plan, forecast process, and management reporting/financial close activities. In addition, the Manager is responsible for managing, coaching and team development in order to build capabilities and achieve key goals and objectives.
What you’ll do:
Business Analysis: Uses deep understanding of objectives, issues and root causes and provides insightful, fact-based data analysis to help solve complex problems.
- Creates financial models, research and analyses of trends, leading indicators and business statistics.
- Utilizes data infrastructure by extracting, aggregating, and dissecting financial data and performance metrics; highlights findings for management review.
Business Partnering: Partners with Key Stakeholders and Business Partners to align on business priorities and drive effective solutions/execution.
- Constructively communicates compelling arguments based on facts and data, and obtains necessary buy-in to deliver on business objectives.
- Builds working relationships with business management and other partners in support of key priorities and objectives through complex analytics and insights.
- Leverages networks and collaborates with resources across organization to achieve business objectives.
Strategic Planning and Initiatives: Supports management to develop strategies and initiatives to drive growth and margin improvements.
- Executes on strategic initiatives such as M&A support, product launches, market entry, and process improvement efforts.
- Assists in the development of business cases and recommendations on financial strategies focused on business growth/market presence and margin improvement.
- Maintains an awareness of general economic, competitive, business and financial conditions and communicates impact on business operations to key stakeholders.
Operating Planning and Forecasting: Supports management to create an annual operating plan that is aligned to the strategic plan and performs forecasting to provide visibility into business results to enable business decisions.
- Creation of financial models to develop the annual operating plan, reviewing and validating assumptions, ensuring proper reconciliation and data integrity.
- Builds forecast models using key drivers, trend analysis, economic, and external factors, etc. and monitors the accuracy and predictability of existing models.
- Continuously improves forecast accuracy by aligning to key drivers and identifying root causes of previous errors.
- Creates analytical tools and models for revenue and expenses driving process efficiencies.
Financial Operational Policy: Establishes and maintains consistent financial operational policies and procedures to govern related practices.
- Ensures continued compliance with all financial operational policies and procedures such as Loss Reporting/Technical Lost Business; recommends modifications as needed.
Talent Development and Management: Deliberately builds capability for short and long term.
- Sets direction, goals and expectations about performance, holds associates accountable for development and provides appropriate feedback.
- Coaches and develops associates; builds diverse team and encourages innovative thinking to identify broad growth opportunities.
Management Reporting and Financial Close Activities: Produces and distributes recurring and ad hoc management reports.
- Partners with the Accounting and QTC organizations to support close activities to enable accurate accounting and reporting.
- Leverages recurring and ad hoc management reporting to identify trends, build business cases, highlight opportunities and risks, and drive business decision making.
Experience: You have 8+ years of experience, including 1+ yr of people leadership (direct or indirect) in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.
TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
- You will have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent. An MBA, MS in Business Analytics, or credits towards an MBA will allow additional comfortability in the role.
- Experience partnering with business units and supporting market share growth, including identifying and recommending opportunities that grow revenue and reduce expenses, and providing complex analysis to support operating planning, forecasting, and strategic planning.
- Experience building financial models from scratch in Excel.
- Experience presenting to senior leaders.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
