Remote FP&A Manager | Strategic Financial Planning

Americhem; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Americhem is seeking a Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead global planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision-support. You will own key FP&A deliverables, build multi-scenario models, and translate financial data into clear actions for the business under the guidance of the Global FP&A Director.

The role emphasizes modeling, automation, AI-enabled insights, and cross-functional partnering to drive performance and continuous improvement across manufacturing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field required; Master’s preferred.
• 4–8 years of progressive FP&A, finance, accounting, or analytical experience, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis.
• Proven ability to build integrated financial models and evaluate pricing, customer opportunities, capital investments, capacity decisions, and other strategic initiatives.
• Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or similarly complex operational experience strongly preferred, along with advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and experience with ERP/BI/planning systems such as Hyperion or Power BI.
• Demonstrated success in process improvement, automation, and digitization, with practical and responsible use of modern AI tools in finance workflows.

Responsibilities

• Independently own assigned components of the annual budget, monthly forecast, long-range plan, and scenario planning processes, including data collection, assumptions, analysis, consolidation, and executive-ready communication.
• Build and maintain multi-scenario models and what-if analyses that show the financial impact of changes in volume, price, mix, productivity, labor, material costs, capital, and other operating drivers.
• Own timely and accurate monthly and quarterly performance reporting, highlighting key results, drivers, risks, and actions for business leaders.
• Develop clear performance narratives that explain what happened, why it happened, what is likely to happen next, and what management should do about it.
• Partner with functional leaders to define KPIs, improve driver-based planning, establish accountability, and track corrective actions.
• Assess capital investments, major sales programs, new business opportunities, and strategic initiatives; provide recommendations grounded in returns, risk, cash, and strategic fit.
• Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for FP&A leadership, the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, and other stakeholders.
• Improve the integrity, consistency, and usability of management reporting by aligning definitions, data sources, ownership, and controls.
• Identify and implement practical ways to simplify, standardize, digitize, and automate recurring reporting and analysis using existing tools.
• Use AI responsibly to accelerate analysis, reporting, variance explanations, trend detection, forecasting workflows, documentation, and repetitive finance activities while maintaining human review, confidentiality, and data integrity.
• Maintain a close connection to the operation by partnering with business and functional teams to understand the drivers behind the numbers and validate insights against operating reality.
• Work with the Global FP&A Director to continuously improve FP&A processes, tools, and communication.

Skills

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Automation

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Hyperion

Power BI

ERP systems

BI tools

Job description

Americhem is seeking a Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead global planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision-support. You will own key FP&A deliverables, build multi-scenario models, and translate financial data into clear actions for the business under the guidance of the Global FP&A Director.

The role emphasizes modeling, automation, AI-enabled insights, and cross-functional partnering to drive performance and continuous improvement across manufacturing