FP&A Manager: Strategic Planning & Analysis

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy USA Inc. in Raleigh, NC seeks a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to lead the annual budget cycle for North America factories, coordinate monthly forecasts, and drive data-driven insights for management.

You will partner with Hub leadership and factory controllers to ensure accurate performance reporting, timely actions, and continuous improvement. The role requires extensive experience in financial planning, SAP, and team supervision, with a focus on implementing cloud-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in financial planning, accounting, and financial reporting.
• 8 years of experience using SAP and preparing financial presentations.
• 7 years of experience supervising a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget process for all North America factories, establishing timelines, templates, guidelines and consolidating all budget figures up to Hub and BU management levels.
• Partner with Hub functional leadership to develop, consolidate and report budget figures at functional level to ensure adequate planning and identify opportunities and actions.
• Coordinate consolidation and development of monthly financial forecasts and management reporting packages to sum up performance and provide insight.
• Design and implement semi-automated and manual analytical tools to evaluate monthly actual results and support forecasting and analysis of deviations.
• Drive monthly reconciliation of P&L, balance sheet and supplemental data with factory controllers and consolidation systems during month-end reporting.
• Support deployment of cloud-based tools (e.g., TM1, Power BI) to improve analytical capabilities and enable strategic decision making.
• Harmonize and standardize processes in alignment with global guidelines.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial statement analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/Economics

Tools

SAP

TM1

Power BI

Job description

Hitachi Energy USA Inc. in Raleigh, NC seeks a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to lead the annual budget cycle for North America factories, coordinate monthly forecasts, and drive data-driven insights for management.

You will partner with Hub leadership and factory controllers to ensure accurate performance reporting, timely actions, and continuous improvement. The role requires extensive experience in financial planning, SAP, and team supervision, with a focus on implementing cloud-based