Senior Finance Manager – Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis

Senior Finance Manager – Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting
• 10+ years of experience in Financial Planning or Corporate Finance with multiple years of successful people leadership and influencing skills.
• Detail oriented, organized and flexible with work schedule. Ability to produce and lead a team to deliver accurate reporting and analysis for executive and board level consumption
• Operations/Supply Chain finance leadership experience in a business unit and/or a large manufacturing plant or experience in Commercial Finance at a large organization is a plus
• Strong FP&A proficiency and business partnering capabilities
• Significant exposure to / proponent of advanced analytics and data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI etc.
• Ability to communicate and deal effectively with personnel at all organizational levels and establish sound relationships with co-workers and executives

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of annual operating plan including process flow, timeline, review meeting coordination, document creation and control, and financial consolidation
• Lead the execution of the quarterly forecast process with an emphasis on developing high quality forecasts with a thorough understanding of potential risks and opportunities, including maintaining a predictive analytics forecasting model
• Lead the coordination / execution of financial aspects of the Annual Strategic Plan
• Play a lead role in coordinating and preparing financial Board of Director materials
• Assist in review and analysis of quarterly earnings and investor relations materials as needed
• Partner with the Finance Data Analytics / Digital Finance / Process Transformation leaders to improve, streamline and digitalize executive and other financial reporting packages and processes
• Proactively track and analyze performance against the financial plan, forecast and prior year. Work to identify root cause for shortfalls and communicate to Enterprise and Segment finance business partners
• Business Partnership – own functional support for centrally led functions and be the trusted advisor to the executive functional leader
• Collaborate with Segment, Enterprise, and Regional Finance teams to ensure that performance measurements, financial planning and analysis processes, and effective practices are consistently put into practice
• Ad hoc analysis as required and will include, but not limited to, customer, vertical markets, channel and regional sales/profitability, working capital, M&A analytics etc.
• Help recruit, retain, and develop a high performing Finance team within Enterprise and broadly at nVent
• Mentor financial analyst direct reports and work with them to elevate their business partnership skills
• Responsible for training, performance evaluations and career development

Preferred Qualifications

• Operations/Supply Chain finance leadership experience in a business unit and/or a large manufacturing plant or experience in Commercial Finance at a large organization is a plus