Financial Planning and Analysis Consolidation Partner

Northwest Bank; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwest Bank is seeking a senior FP&A Consolidation partner to lead enterprise financial consolidation and ensure accurate reporting of actuals, forecasts, and plans. You will partner with Accounting, Treasury, and Business Finance to deliver a single source of truth and provide actionable insights for senior leadership.

This role emphasizes automation, strong controls, and collaboration with various finance teams to enable timely, data-driven decisions and scalable processes across business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Management.
• 8–12 years in Finance or related field.
• Strong understanding of financial principles and balance sheet analysis.
• Excellent data visualization and storytelling.
• Ability to influence cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial consolidation across the enterprise.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Prepare and analyze reports with key variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Explain transfer pricing methodologies to users.
• Drive automation and efficiency in reporting; maintain internal controls.
• Support audits and regulatory requests.

Skills

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Data visualization

Team player

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Office software

Job description

OH0713 NW Bancshares HQJob DescriptionThe FP&A Consolidation partner is responsible for leading enterprise financial consolidation, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of actuals, forecasts, and plans across the organization. This position partners closely with Accounting, Treasury, and Business Finance teams to deliver a single source of truth, provide meaningful variance analysis, and translate financial results into actionable insights for senior leadership.Essential Functions• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes through financial modeling and consolidation activities.• Ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness of consolidated actuals, forecasts, and long-range plans• Conduct scenario analysis to help inform decisions based on ROI• Understand and be able to explain to users, funds transfer pricing methodologies• Identify and determine reporting frequency, format, and distribution• Consolidate monthly, quarterly, forecast, budget, and strategic planning results across business units and legal entities• Prepare and analyze financial reports, highlighting key variances, trends, risks, and opportunities for management.• Partner with Accounting, Treasury, and business leaders to deliver timely financial insights and support decision-making• Drive process improvements, automation, and reporting enhancements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability• Maintain strong internal controls over financial data, reporting, and consolidation processes• Support internal and external audit requests related to financial reporting and planning activitiesAdditional Essential Functions• Ensure compliance with Northwest’s policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations• Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency• Work as part of a team• Work with on-site equipmentQUALIFICATIONSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.EducationBachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Business ManagementWork Experience8 - 12 years In Finance or related fieldAdditional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities• Strong understanding of financial principles and balance sheet analysis• Expertise in financial modeling and data analysis• Excellent communication and presentation skills• A detail-oriented, data-driven, and analytical mindset• Excellent at data visualization and business storytelling• Team Player• Ability to analyze financial data• Ability to influence cross-functionallyNorthwest is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.