FP&A Finance Manager, Functional Areas & Global Reporting

Gowan; Mexicali; Vor Ort; MXN 900.000 - 1.300.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Gowan is seeking an FP&A Finance Manager to partner with HR, R&D and Supply Chain across the global organization from its Mexicali site. The role leads budgeting, payroll analysis, and cost optimization while ensuring accurate reporting for a multi-entity portfolio.

You will consolidate financial data, drive KPI reporting, and collaborate with functional leaders to explain variances and financial impacts. This position requires strong analytical skills, high energy, and willingness to travel up

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of financial and data analysis experience.
• Advanced knowledge of financial accounting / reporting.
• Expert in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Power BI and Power Query a plus.
• Ability to consolidate and connect information across multiple businesses into one consistent view.

Aufgaben

• Serve as the primary finance partner to functional leaders (HR, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and others).
• Review financial results and key numbers with each functional leader regularly.
• Prepare and review payroll analysis including headcount, compensation costs and variances.
• Lead annual budget process with functional leaders and HR on payroll projections.
• Maintain visibility of financial reporting at global level and explain consolidated reports to partners.

Kenntnisse

Financial analysis

Excel

Power BI

Budgeting

Forecasting

Data consolidation

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance

MBA (plus)

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Jobbeschreibung

FP&A Finance Manager, Functional Areas & Global Reporting

GCP Finance Full Time Mexicali, Baja California, MX

Position Summary:

Acts as the finance business partner to the company's functional areas, including HR, R&D and Supply Chain. Build strong working relationships with functional leaders, reviews financial results with them, and helps them understand and manage their numbers. Analyzes payroll, monthly results and variances, and evaluates the financial impact of proposed changes such as new suppliers, organizational restructures and new projects. Leads the budget process with functional leaders to project their numbers, and partners with HR on global payroll preparation, projections and presentations. Manages other global budget processes, including corporate allocations, recharges between entities, R&D project investments, global insurance and Supply Chain costs (freight, warehouse and other costs). Leads, consolidates, analyzes and reviews the company's global capital expenditure (Capex) budget and understands its financial impact and follows the execution.

This role supports the group reporting; it analyzes the consolidated reports and explains them to the business partners. This gives the role a high-level understanding of the company’s strategy and of how the different businesses relate to each other, so it can feed the analysis from each perspective.

Job Status:

• Full-Time / Yuma, AZ
• Exempt
• Reports to: Global FP&A Director

Role Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary finance partner to functional leaders (HR, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and others), maintaining ongoing communication and dialogue with key stakeholders.
• Review financial results and key numbers with each functional leader on a regular cadence, ensuring accountability for their budget.
• Prepare and review payroll analysis, including headcount, compensation costs and variances against budget.
• Lead the review of monthly results for each functional area, reconciling the numbers and ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with US and local regulatory requirements.
• Follow up on variances vs budget, investigate root causes with the areas, and tell the story behind the numbers.
• Evaluate and model changes proposed by the functional areas, such as changing HR suppliers, changes in organizational structures, and new project analyses, including cost, savings and payback.
• Generate metrics that measure expenses, efficiency and productivity for each functional area.
• Lead the annual budget process with functional leaders, helping them project their numbers bottom-up and ensuring accountability to the budget.
• Work with HR to build the global payroll projections, including headcount, salary increases, benefits, payroll taxes.
• Manage global budget processes, including corporate allocations, recharges between entities, global insurance costs, patents and trademarks etc
• Manage the budget and monthly tracking of R&D project investments, partnering with R&D and marketing leadership to evaluate and prioritize projects.
• Act as a key user and owner of the budgeting and R&D investment systems, supporting data integrity, user training and system improvements.
• Responsible of work with the Supply chain team in the cost projects for Freights to customers, warehouse and other cost of sales.
• Drive improvements in reporting accuracy, timeliness and insightfulness, and assist with system transformation and process improvement projects sponsored by the Chief Financial Officer.
• Lead, consolidate, analyze and review the global budget process for the Full Capex for the company, including the understanding of the full capex return.
• Prepare and review Global capex analysis against budget
• Maintain visibility of financial reporting at global level across all businesses and understand, analyze and explain the consolidated reports to the business partners.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related field, MBA is a plus.

Experience / Skills / Abilities:

• 5+ years of financial and data analysis experience
• Advanced knowledge of financial accounting / reporting
• Expert in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with Power BI and Power Query a plus
• Ability to consolidate and connect information across multiple businesses into one consistent view.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Creative and resourceful problem solvers who can work autonomously.
• High energy, self-starter, and ambitious.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
• Experience and comfort operating in a remote working environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%

Job Expectations / Working Conditions:

• Work in office environment at a desk for extended periods using computer.