Regional Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Position Overview

The Regional Manager, FP&A will lead in developing, implementing robust and scalable reporting processes that drive the business decision making backed with analytics. The candidate is responsible for leading & partnering with Vice Presidents Operations with preparation and communication of executive packages, annual operating plans (AOP), forecasts, and business plans. Support various data and system framework implementations, and validation. This role will work with large data sets across various systems and will require frequent consolidation of data for modelling. The manager must be familiar with accounting, financial planning, and analysis concepts. Role will be a business partner to business leaders.

Key Job Responsibilities

Finance/Operations Collaboration

· Identify key drivers and initiatives for strategic and business growth.

· Develop, & utilize various analytical frameworks to highlight opportunities & decision support.

· Complete profitability analysis across regional, market, customer, event, and various segment of business.

· Utilize financial & operational drivers to provide insights on opportunities for improvement.

· Respond to inquiries for data extraction, review, and analysis from regional teams.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning

· Lead the regional annual operating plan process, subsequent monthly/quarterly forecasts.

· Implement drive based financial modeling for AOP, forecasting and business cases.

· Partner with regional management team in identifying risks & opportunities against AOP & strategic roadmap.

· Drive utilization of demand planning, asset utilization, benchmarking, and others.

· Assist in development, implementation & maintenance of planning tool.

Financial & Data Analytics

· Partner with accounting team on month end process, variance analysis and review.

· Own and communicate financial and operational package to local senior management.

· Develop models that enable dynamic planning capabilities.

· Coordinate with cross functional teams on system fixes and data extracts.

· Utilize SQL, MS Excel and VBA to write queries and construct various reports.

Job Requirements

· Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Data Analytics.

· 5+ years of progressive financial experience in similar capacity

· CPA or working towards designation.

· Previous experience with ERP & planning software, including BI tools is an asset.

· Ability to manage & report on large datasets in excel.

Competency Group

· Deliver World Class Service (Hospitality, Ownership)

· Do the Right Thing (Demonstrates Self-Awareness)

· Drive Results (Ensures Accountability

· See the Big Picture (Decision Quality, Achieves Goals)

· Value People (Collaborates)

Work Environment

Work is performed primarily in an office environment or from your home office depending on circumstances and every effort will be made to accommodate the employee and employer. Team members must adhere to appearance guidelines as defined by Encore based in an office environment and when traveling.