Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Project Management)

Summary:
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The FP&A Manager will assist the CFO with the annual budget, monthly forecasts, as well as all aspects of active / prospective markets, operational, commercial, treasury, and financial reporting, planning, analysis, and modeling, over short-term and long-term.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead annual budget process, and ongoing monthly forecasting, including monthly sales, financial forecasts, and capital planning in Vena Corporate Performance Management (CPM) System
Issue monthly FP&A reporting book, including financial trend analysis, P&L and CapEx budget-to-actual variances, working capital trends, and EBITDA adjustments, leveraging technology including Sage, Vena, PowerBI, and other systems
Actively manage 13-week cash flow forecast to support operating, investing, and financing activities, coordinating with CFO on annual forecast by month, leveraging Sage, Vena, PowerBI, and other systems
Assist CFO with the development of Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) processing, including 16-week sales forecast in Vena, monthly sales forecasting annually, inventory allocation and gross margin forecasting, and supply/demand planning by channel
Assist CFO with the development of company weekly/monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across Commercial, Operations, and Corporate divisions to be reported consistently, completely, and accurately via technology and systematic reporting
Assist CFO with Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Buy-Side Due Diligence processes, as applicable, including Virtual Data Room (VDR), M&A modeling, and scenario analysis
Assist CFO and HR Director with incentive compensation, including monthly incentives for retail staff via Sparkplug application and monthly wholesale sales commissions
Assist CFO with quarterly reporting to Bank (covenants), Board of Managers (deck preparation), and other investor relations
Develop and maintain financial models and related financial templates, supporting current and future operations, including 5-year market based and supply-side models
Ensure timely ROI / IRR / MOIC on Capital Expenditures (CapEx) & Operating Expenses (OpEx), with assistance from accounting & finance staff
Coordinate with CFO, Controller, and IT on the design and maintenance of ongoing PowerBI subscriptions, dashboards, and systematic reporting
Proactive focus on implementing automation and efficiencies into finance processes, reducing manual workflows and driving economies of scale leveraging technology.

Business Partnership:

Partner with Commercial leadership for commercial reporting and analysis, including monthly Retail Procurement planning, weekly Retail 4-Wall reporting, and other analytics
Partner Operations leadership for operations reporting and analysis, including supply/demand modeling, purchasing budgets, inventory management, SKU-level margin analysis, and produce volume mix analysis
Partner with Operations, Commercial and IT on integration of data sets into "one source of truth" for ongoing reporting and analysis, leveraging native/custom APIs
Coordinate with Controller, Retail / Wholesale Purchasing Manager(s) on working capital planning for both retail and wholesale.
Coordinate with CFO, Controller, and IT to drive Business Intelligence (BI) tools, including PowerBI, from "one source of truth" in SQL/Azure, with API system integrations
Assists Controller and CFO in preparation of annual financial audit and quarterly cost accounting audits
Assists Controller and CFO in preparation of quarterly income tax estimates, annual income tax returns, investor K-1s and other tax reporting under 280E/471C
Support pricing and product profitability analysis at wholesale and retail levels, coordinating with Commercial & Operational teams in partnership with CFO & Controller
Partners with CFO, IT, and external BI consultants/developers as needed on the design of PowerBI dashboards with underlying Sage data.
Partners with Controller, CFO and IT on automating the reporting of data using technology, including Sage, Concur, Ramp, Vena, SQL / PowerBI, and other technologies.
Partner with CFO, Controller, and IT to streamline and automate accounting & finance processes through Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), PowerAutomate, CoPilot, or other Financial Technology (FinTech) systems
Assist CFO, Controller, and leadership team with project-based initiatives as applicable, including value-added ad hoc strategic analysis, as applicable