ADP Looking for Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis at Elk Grove Village, IL Full Time

ADP is hiring a Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis.

• Are you an FP&A Manager, highly skilled in partnering with business units to provide critical analysis and support?
• Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging?

Well, this may be the role for you.

As Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis, you will provide financial and strategic decision support to the business to ensure achievement of short and long term financial goals. Collaborating with management and other partners, the Manager facilitates understanding of the business dynamics which includes productivity analysis, margin improvement, and business analysis (including client retention, loss reporting and quality metrics).

Driving financial best practices, the Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis will optimize financial opportunities regarding revenue enhancement and expense management throughout the organization. The Manager acts as a support function to the operating plan, forecast process, and management reporting/financial close activities. In addition, the Manager is responsible for managing, coaching and team development in order to build capabilities and achieve key goals and objectives.

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What you’ll do:

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

Business Analysis: Uses deep understanding of objectives, issues and root causes and provides insightful, fact-based data analysis to help solve complex problems.

• Creates financial models, research and analyses of trends, leading indicators and business statistics.
• Utilizes data infrastructure by extracting, aggregating, and dissecting financial data and performance metrics; highlights findings for management review.

Business Partnering: Partners with Key Stakeholders and Business Partners to align on business priorities and drive effective solutions/execution.

• Constructively communicates compelling arguments based on facts and data, and obtains necessary buy-in to deliver on business objectives.
• Builds working relationships with business management and other partners in support of key priorities and objectives through complex analytics and insights.
• Leverages networks and collaborates with resources across organization to achieve business objectives.

Strategic Planning and Initiatives: Supports management to develop strategies and initiatives to drive growth and margin improvements.

• Executes on strategic initiatives such as M&A support, product launches, market entry, and process improvement efforts.
• Assists in the development of business cases and recommendations on financial strategies focused on business growth/market presence and margin improvement.
• Maintains an awareness of general economic, competitive, business and financial conditions and communicates impact on business operations to key stakeholders.

Operating Planning and Forecasting: Supports management to create an annual operating plan that is aligned to the strategic plan and performs forecasting to provide visibility into business results to enable business decisions

• Creation of financial models to develop the annual operating plan, reviewing and validating assumptions, ensuring proper reconciliation and data integrity.
• Builds forecast models using key drivers, trend analysis, economic, and external factors, etc. and monitors the accuracy and predictability of existing models.
• Continuously improves forecast accuracy by aligning to key drivers and identifying root causes of previous errors.
• Creates analytical tools and models for revenue and expenses driving process efficiencies.

Financial Operational Policy: Establishes and maintains consistent financial operational policies and procedures to govern related practices.

• Ensures continued compliance with all financial operational policies and procedures such as Loss Reporting/Technical Lost Business; recommends modifications as needed.

Talent Development and Management: Deliberately builds capability for short and long term.

• Sets direction, goals and expectations about performance, holds associates accountable for development and provides appropriate feedback
• Coaches and develops associates; builds diverse team and encourages innovative thinking to identify broad growth opportunities

Management Reporting and Financial Close Activities: Produces and distributes recurring and ad hoc management reports.

• Partners with the Accounting and QTC organizations to support close activities to enable accurate accounting and reporting
• Leverages recurring and ad hoc management reporting to identify trends, build business cases, highlight opportunities and risks, and drive business decision making

Experience. You have 8+ years of experience, including 1+ yr of people leadership (direct or indirect) in relevant skills gained and developed the same or similar role.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• You will have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent. An MBA, MS in Business Analytics, or credits towards an MBA will allow additional comfortability in the role.

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another’s ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We’re obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP’s Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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