Manager of Finance

UTA; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UTA seeks an experienced Manager, Finance to lead financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and related systems across the organization. You will coordinate monthly and long-range planning, develop management insights, and partner with FP&A and system leads to ensure timely, accurate inputs and consistent methodologies.

You will build standardized dashboards, KPI definitions, and automate reporting processes, escalating issues as needed.

Qualifications

• Budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and financial planning experience.
• Experience with Finance Systems, BI, or IT teams.
• MBA/CPA/CFA or relevant certification preferred.
• Detail-oriented with strong judgment and escalation skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate complex, deadline-driven processes across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate recurring forecast processes, support monthly financial reviews, and contribute to the development of annual and long-range planning.
• Support finance systems, dashboarding, reporting automation, KPI tracking, and process improvements to make financial data accessible and actionable.
• Standardize financial assumptions, reporting methodologies, terminology, templates, and planning processes across the company.
• Build and maintain standardized dashboards for recurring monthly reporting and provide timely data for decision-making to department heads.
• Establish KPI definitions and governance to ensure consistent performance tracking across lines of business.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Written communication

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA/CPA/CFA or related advanced degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Tableau

OneStream

Oracle Hyperion

EPBCS

Anaplan

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

• UTA seeks an experienced Manager, Finance to serve as a central finance resource responsible for coordinating and supporting the company’s financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and related systems processes. This role will work primarily with the FP&A and system leads to ensure that financial inputs, timelines, assumptions, deliverables and data are complete, consistent, and submitted on schedule
• The position will help coordinate recurring forecast processes, support the preparation of monthly financial reviews, and contribute to the development and execution of the annual planning and long-range planning processes. The role will also support finance systems, dashboarding, reporting automation, KPI tracking, and process improvements that make financial data more accessible, consistent, and actionable across the organization
• Coordinate timelines, milestones, deliverables, communications, calendars, templates, and version control for monthly reporting, quarterly outlooks, annual planning, long-range planning, and other recurring finance processes across UTA’s global business
• Gather, consolidate, and validate financial inputs, reporting packages, commentary, risks, and opportunities from divisional finance leads; proactively **escalate** missed deadlines, unresolved dependencies, and data inconsistencies
• Support monthly financial reviews through management reporting, variance and trend analysis, supporting schedules, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and reconciliation of forecast and planning outputs
• Partner with UTA’s divisional FP&A leads to standardize financial assumptions, reporting methodologies, terminology, templates, presentation formats, and planning processes across the company
• Serve as a finance systems subject matter resource and partner with Finance Systems, Business Intelligence, IT, and related teams on system administration, enhancements, implementations, testing, data validation, metadata maintenance, workflow administration, reporting improvements, and process optimization
• Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and streamline recurring finance activities and improve the accessibility, consistency, and usability of financial data
• Support the Director with commission allocation workflows and related analytics and dashboard development
• Develop and maintain standardized dashboards that support recurring monthly reporting and provide UTA department heads across the company with timely data for decision-making
• Establish KPI definitions, governance standards, and reporting processes to ensure consistent performance tracking across all lines of business
• Build strong working relationships across the finance organization, facilitate communication and issue resolution, and prepare ad hoc financial analyses and special projects as needed

Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and financial planning processesExperience partnering with Finance Systems, Business Intelligence, or Information Technology teamsMBA, CPA, CFA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification preferredHigh attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to identify and escalation issues appropriatelyStrong analytical, organizational, written communication, and problem-solving skillsAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including financial modeling and preparation of management-ready materialsExperience with reporting and visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or comparable platforms preferredExperience with enterprise performance management or financial planning platforms such as OneStream, Oracle Hyperion or EPBCS, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or a comparable system preferredDemonstrated ability to coordinate complex, deadline-driven processes across multiple teams and stakeholdersApproximately 5 to 8 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, finance operations, financial reporting, or related disciplineBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related fieldAbility to build effective working relationships and influence stakeholders without direct authorityExperience supporting annual operating plans and long-range planning cycles in a multi-division organization preferred