Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Hitachi Energy; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager in Raleigh, NC. This role leads the annual budget process for North America factories and partners with functional leadership.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial planning, accounting, and team supervision, with proficiency in SAP and financial presentations.

Telecommuting is permitted but candidates must reside within commuting distance of the Raleigh office.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in financial statement analysis.
• 10 years of experience in financial planning and accounting.
• 7 years of experience supervising a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the budget process for North America factories.
• Develop and report budget figures at the functional level.
• Design tools to analyze actual results and deviations.
• Drive monthly reconciliation of financial data.
• Implement new cloud-based analytical tools.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial reporting

SAP

Preparing financial presentations

Team supervision

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Economics

Tools

TM1

Power BI

Job description

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager positions offered by Hitachi Energy USA Inc. (Raleigh, NC). Lead the annual budget process for all North America factories, including establishing internal timelines, developing templates, sharing guidelines, and consolidating, tracking and reporting all budget figures up to Hub and BU management levels. Partner with Hub functional leadership to develop, consolidate and report all budget figures at functional level to ensure adequate planning and identify trends, improvement opportunities and corrective actions needed. Coordinate consolidation and development of monthly financial forecasts, including management reporting packages customized to local and global requirements, to sum up performance to date and provide insight on expected results for coming periods. Design and implement semi-automated and manual analytical tools to evaluate monthly actual results and support forecasting and analysis of actual results and deviations. Drive monthly reconciliation of P&L, BS and supplemental data with all factory controllers and the Corporate Consolidation System during month-end reporting to ensure accurate figures and timely issue escalation. Support the full deployment and implementation of new cloud-based tools to improve current analytical tools (e.g. TM1, Power BI) to allow greater focus on value-add analysis that enable strategic decision making. Actively work towards the goal of harmonized and standardized processes in alignment with global guidelines.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field and 10 years of experience in the position offered or 10 years of experience performing financial statement analysis.
• Requires 10 years of experience: conducting financial planning; performing accounting; and conducting financial reporting.
• Also requires 8 years of experience: using SAP; and preparing financial presentations.
• Requires 7 years of experience supervising a team of direct reports.
• Position reports to Raleigh, NC office.
• Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office.
• Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently.