Senior FP&A Leader: Strategic Planning & Insights (Hybrid)

A. O. Smith Corp.; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package and全面

Job summary

A.O. Smith Corp. is seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A in Milwaukee to lead enterprise planning, forecasting, and reporting, delivering actionable insights for executives. You will develop dashboards and scalable tools while partnering with senior leadership to drive performance improvements.

Responsibilities include leading planning cycles, building financial models, and guiding data governance and process improvements across the finance organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field required; MBA, CPA, CFA, or relevant certification preferred.
• 8–12 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related analytical experience.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, working capital, capex, margin analysis, and key operating metrics.
• Experience with planning, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, variance analysis, and executive reviews.
• Strong experience developing reports, dashboards, scorecards, financial models, and executive presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to improve FP&A processes, standardize reporting, automate recurring work, and strengthen financial discipline.
• Proven ability to partner with BU FP&A teams, corporate functions, and senior leadership.
• Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or public company experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• ERP, planning, reporting, or enterprise performance management systems experience; SAP, OneStream and Co-Pilot a plus.
• Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, and business judgment.
• Excellent executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex information.
• Process improvement mindset with scalable solutions.
• Strong reporting and dashboard orientation with data quality focus.
• Collaborative leadership style with cross-team influence.
• High attention to detail and strong project management.
• High integrity, professionalism, discretion, accountability, and talent development focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and recurring financial reviews.
• Partner with BU FP&A teams to evaluate results, drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze consolidated performance versus plan, forecast, prior year, and prior outlooks.
• Develop financial models, scenarios, sensitivities, and driver-based analyses.
• Improve forecast quality, planning discipline, and consistency of assumptions.
• Develop management reporting packages, dashboards, scorecards, and executive summaries.
• Translate financial and operational data into concise, decision-ready insights.
• Standardize reporting definitions, improve data quality, and ensure consistency of metrics.
• Automate recurring reporting and improve timeliness and usefulness of financial information.
• Lead FP&A process improvements and adoption of tools.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field

MBA, CPA, CFA, or relevant certification

Tools

SAP

OneStream

Co-Pilot

Job description

A.O. Smith Corp. is seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A in Milwaukee to lead enterprise planning, forecasting, and reporting, delivering actionable insights for executives. You will develop dashboards and scalable tools while partnering with senior leadership to drive performance improvements.

Responsibilities include leading planning cycles, building financial models, and guiding data governance and process improvements across the finance organization.