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David Careers

Manager Financial Planning & Analysis - Field - Hybrid

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national expressWarrenville (IL)
Financial ManagersCorporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

SENIORITY

Senior

SALARY

$120,000 - $140,000 per year

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About the role

Manager, FP&ASummit School Services companies share a strong commitment to provide the highest level of transportation safety, quality transportation, outstanding customer service and positive employee relations. Our corporate headquarters, located in Warrenville, Illinois, houses the administrative and corporate support functions for the organization. Our 250+ local customer service centers (CSCs) are supported by regional operations teams located throughout North America. The Manager, FP&A will support the annual budget and quarterly forecast for the company, partner with the Charter and Real Estate teams, performing regular and ad-hoc reporting to facilitate better decision making across the Company. This is a highly visible role with significant exposure to the Company's executive team and an excellent growth opportunity for an experienced finance individual.
Responsibilities:
  • Act as a key member of the annual budget process to produce the roll-up of the Company level budget, and bridging consolidated results to sense check the overall budget
  • Support VP of Finance on the creation of the annual five-year plan
  • Analyze monthly results comparing against forecast, budget and prior year, identify key drivers of variances and prepare insightful commentary
  • Leading and supporting budget, forecast, and monthly results for the Charter and Real Estate teams
  • Assisting field finance with monthly review packages
  • Diagnose and implement process improvements to improve financial forecast quality
  • Develop analytics to uncover root causes of performance trends and translate the analysis into clear and actionable insights for multiple audiences
  • Interact daily with accounting and other corporate departments and serve as the Finance liaison
  • Working with AR team and field finance on collection of outstanding balances
  • Managing large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager
  • Build financial, scenario-based models to support decision making
  • The salary range is $120k-$140k annually.
Qualifications
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required; CPA, CFA, or MBA is desired
  • A minimum of three to five years finance experience, primarily in a corporate finance environment. Strong commitment to providing excellence in client service
  • Ability to work under rigorous time constraints and manage multiple tasks
  • Demonstrated financial modeling/ analysis experience
  • Proactive, professional demeanor with strong interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated ability of producing high quality results with an emphasis on attention to detail
  • Ability to interface efficiently with all levels of management – ability to provide clear, concise explanations of complex problems to management
  • Demonstrated analytical skills and business acumen solving tough problems with creative data driven solutions
  • Expert knowledge of MS Excel and advanced knowledge of MS Word and MS PowerPointSignificant financial experience using financial/ERP systems, including Essbase

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