FP&A Manager

Alliance Resource Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Resource Group in Orange County is seeking an FP&A Manager to join its corporate finance team. This hands-on role focuses on building models, digging into data, and helping leadership understand what's happening across the business, with onsite work and occasional flexibility.

You will build integrated forecasting and budgeting models, run scenario analyses, manage large datasets, and develop reporting tools for senior leaders across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FP&A or related experience.
• Ability to build and work with integrated three-statement models.
• Advanced Excel skills with large datasets.
• Experience with SQL or Power Query a plus.
• Understanding of income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Ability to translate questions into structured financial analysis.
• Strong communication with finance and non-finance teams.
• Hands-on, fast-moving environment experience.
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or multi-location businesses.
• Exposure to private equity-backed or growth-oriented organizations.
• Experience with planning tools such as Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion or similar.
• Power BI or other visualization tools.
• Experience supporting senior leadership presentations.
• Exposure to M&A, integrations, or transaction-related financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated financial models used for forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to help leadership evaluate business decisions
• Work with large financial and operational datasets and turn the information into useful, actionable analysis
• Build and improve Excel-based models and reporting tools that can be easily maintained and utilized across the finance team
• Support the annual budgeting process as well as monthly forecasting and reporting
• Partner with finance and operational leaders on variance analysis, performance trends, and business drivers across multiple locations
• Assist with cash flow forecasting and other recurring FP&A reporting
• Prepare financial analysis and supporting materials for senior leadership and other key stakeholders
• Support strategic projects, potential transactions, integrations, and other ad hoc financial analysis
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline existing reporting and planning processes

Skills

Financial modeling

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

SQL/Power Query

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field

MBA/CPA/CMA/CFA or similar credential

Tools

SQL

Power Query

Power BI

Adaptive/Anaplan/Hyperion

Job description

We're working with a growing organization in Orange County that is looking to add an FP&A Manager to its corporate finance team. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building models, digging into data, and helping leadership understand what's happening across the business. The position will be based in Orange County and primarily onsite, with the potential for some flexibility over time.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and maintain integrated financial models used for forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to help leadership evaluate business decisions
• Work with large financial and operational datasets and turn the information into useful, actionable analysis
• Build and improve Excel-based models and reporting tools that can be easily maintained and utilized across the finance team
• Support the annual budgeting process as well as monthly forecasting and reporting
• Partner with finance and operational leaders on variance analysis, performance trends, and business drivers across multiple locations
• Assist with cash flow forecasting and other recurring FP&A reporting
• Prepare financial analysis and supporting materials for senior leadership and other key stakeholders
• Support strategic projects, potential transactions, integrations, and other ad hoc financial analysis
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline existing reporting and planning processes

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience
• Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to build and work with integrated three-statement models
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with complex models and large datasets
• Experience with SQL, Power Query, or similar data tools is a plus
• Strong understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement and how operational activity impacts financial performance
• Ability to take an open-ended business question and turn it into structured financial analysis
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both finance and non-finance teams
• Comfortable operating in a hands-on, fast-moving environment
• Nice to Have Experience in a manufacturing, distribution, or multi-location business
• Exposure to private equity-backed or other growth-oriented organizations
• Experience with planning tools such as Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, or similar platforms
• Familiarity with Power BI or other visualization/reporting tools
• Experience supporting senior leadership presentations and reporting
• Exposure to M&A, integrations, or transaction-related financial analysis
• MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credential Education Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.

This is a great opportunity for someone who likes the technical side of FP&A but also wants visibility into the broader business. The right person will be comfortable getting into the weeds with models and data while also helping translate the numbers into information leadership can actually use.