Senior FP&A Analyst: Budgeting, Forecasting & Board Prep

Centerline; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Centerline is seeking an experienced finance professional to own budget, forecasting, and variance management for our corporate, wireline and wireless segments. This role leads the full annual budget cycle and monthly reforecasting, collaborating with entity leaders, the Data Consolidation team, and executive leadership to ensure timely, accurate financial planning across all corporate functions.

What you will do includes budget coordination, variance analysis, validation of targets, board‑ready

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 3–5 years of FP&A, financial planning, or budget/forecasting experience.
• Strong analytical skills with variance analysis, forecasting, and cost allocation experience.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines across multiple stakeholders and functional leaders.
• Comfort working with senior leadership and board-level materials.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with function leaders across HR, IT, Sales, Marketing, Legal, etc.
• Advanced Excel/financial modeling proficiency; experience with budgeting or FP&A software is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own budget coordination and variance management.
• Learn and apply corporate budget methodology and templates, coordinating with the Controller on structure and cost center setup.
• Validate that targets align with function-level capabilities and brief all functions on submission requirements, process, and deadlines.
• Coordinate budget submissions, validating allocations and assumptions for completeness and accuracy.
• Identify outliers or inconsistencies in function submissions and resolve directly with function leaders as needed.
• Support First Pass review by explaining function assumptions, and incorporate feedback and revisions from leadership.
• Perform final QA of corporate data ahead of executive/board review.
• Lead final sign-off and board presentation support.
• Track variance on an ongoing basis, including managing benefits inflation, IT spending, and shared cost allocations.
• Provide ongoing support to function leaders, answering questions and resolving allocation or data issues.

Skills

FP&A experience

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

Budgeting

Excel proficiency

Cost allocation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

FP&A software

Budgeting software

Job description

Centerline is seeking an experienced finance professional to own budget, forecasting, and variance management for our corporate, wireline and wireless segments. This role leads the full annual budget cycle and monthly reforecasting, collaborating with entity leaders, the Data Consolidation team, and executive leadership to ensure timely, accurate financial planning across all corporate functions.

What you will do includes budget coordination, variance analysis, validation of targets, board‑ready