Senior FP&A Specialist

We are looking for a Senior FP&A Specialist to lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis across our business units. You will partner with senior management to turn data into clear, actionable insights, and play a key role in modernizing our FP&A processes with BI and AI-powered tools.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the annual budgeting and rolling forecast process for all business units and consolidate them into a single master budget.
• Continuously improve budgeting, financial projection, and operating forecast methodologies to increase accuracy and reduce cycle time.
• Build and maintain financial models to support strategic initiatives, growth projections, and scenario analysis.
• Monitor and analyze trends in key financial and operational KPIs, including revenue, expenses, and profit margins.
• Investigate unexpected variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare and present monthly and quarterly performance reports to senior management and department leaders.
• Validate data received from various units to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Deliver ad-hoc analyses to support business decisions.
• Implement and maintain BI tools and dashboards that give leadership real-time visibility into performance.
• Identify and apply AI-driven solutions to automate repetitive tasks, accelerate analysis, and improve forecast quality.
• Promote best practices for the responsible use of AI tools within the finance team.
• Act as a trusted advisor to management and department leaders, providing data-driven insights.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to building a strong analytical culture.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or an MBA.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis, preferably in a multi-business or tech-driven environment.
• Solid understanding of accounting, financial, and operational principles.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; hands-on experience with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Practical experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) in financial work, such as variance analysis, forecasting, report drafting, and data summarization.
• Ability to write effective, structured prompts and to critically validate AI-generated outputs before using them in decision-making.
• Awareness of data privacy and confidentiality considerations when working with AI tools.
• Familiarity with SQL or Python is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage all levels of management.
• Strong commitment to quality, ethics, integrity, and compliance.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and solving problems without clear-cut answers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities while keeping sight of the big picture.