FP&A Finance Manager, FA & GR

Overview

As a Finance Business Partner, you will support HR, R&D, and Supply Chain by translating financial results into actionable guidance. You’ll lead budgeting, payroll analysis, and variance reviews while partnering with functional leaders to project numbers and assess financial impacts of changes. You’ll consolidate global budgets, Capex planning, and R&D investments, ensuring data integrity and timely reporting. This role offers broad visibility into the company’s strategy and cross‑functional collaboration to drive value. You will shape financial narratives that inform decision making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance partner to functional leaders (HR, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and others)
• Review financial results and key numbers with each functional leader on a regular cadence
• Prepare and review payroll analysis, including headcount, compensation costs and variances against budget
• Lead the review of monthly results for each functional area, reconciling the numbers and ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with US and local regulatory requirements
• Follow up on variances vs budget, investigate root causes with the areas, and tell the story behind the numbers
• Evaluate and model changes proposed by the functional areas, such as changing HR suppliers, changes in organizational structures, and new project analyses
• Generate metrics that measure expenses, efficiency and productivity for each functional area
• Lead the annual budget process with functional leaders, helping them project their numbers bottom-up and ensuring accountability to the budget
• Work with HR to build the global payroll projections, including headcount, salary increases, benefits, payroll taxes
• Manage global budget processes, including corporate allocations, recharges between entities, global insurance costs, patents and trademarks etc
• Manage the budget and monthly tracking of R&D project investments, partnering with R&D and marketing leadership to evaluate and prioritize projects
• Act as a key user and owner of the budgeting and R&D investment systems, supporting data integrity, user training and system improvements
• Responsible of work with the Supply chain team in the cost projects for Freights to customers, warehouse and other cost of sales
• Drive improvements in reporting accuracy, timeliness and insightfulness, and assist with system transformation and process improvement projects sponsored by the Chief Financial Officer
• Lead, consolidate, analyze and review the global budget process for the Full Capex for the company, including the understanding of the full capex return
• Prepare and review Global capex analysis against budget
• Maintain visibility of financial reporting at global level across all businesses and understand, analyze and explain the consolidated reports to the business partners

Key requirements

• 5+ years of financial and data analysis experience
• Advanced knowledge of financial accounting / reporting
• Expert in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with Power BI and Power Query a plus
• Ability to consolidate and connect information across multiple businesses into one consistent view
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Creative and resourceful problem solvers who can work autonomously
• High energy, self-starter, and ambitious
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of the organization
• Experience and comfort operating in a remote working environment
• Willingness to travel up to 10%

• communication skills
• analytical thinking
• autonomy
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI
• Power Query

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