Senior Manager, FP&A - Central Zone Advisor

Marsh; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Manager, FP&A - Central Zone Advisor to lead finance partnering for CEZ. You will oversee planning, forecasting, and performance reporting with the CEZ leadership team, delivering timely insights to drive growth and profitability.

This role requires strong analytical thinking, experience in global FP&A, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement and opportunities to shape strategic finance across a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in financial planning & analysis, controllership, or related experience in a global operation.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial planning, reporting and analytics support to leadership and business partners to help achieve objectives.
• Communicate key insights on performance, forecasts, budgets and sales activity to management.
• Manage the forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning for the Central Zone.
• Develop and maintain financial models for analytics across geographies and business units.
• Perform ad hoc analyses to support tactical and strategic decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure maximum leverage and efficiency.

Skills

Financial planning

Analytical skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or CPA preferred

Job description

Company

Marsh

Position Description

Marsh's US Financial Planning & Analysis team is seeking candidates for a Senior Manager, FP&A - Central Zone Advisor position.

This position is based in New York, NY and is hybrid, with an expectation of working in the office at least three days per week.

This a leading finance position role that works closely with the Central Zone ("CEZ") distribution team, and its business executives. CEZ, a business with more than $600MM of revenue, is the second largest zone within the Marsh US, and larger than most countries in global Marsh in terms of revenue.

As the lead finance partner for CEZ Leadership, this position is responsible for:

• providing relevant and consistent management and performance information to the Zone
• assessing key business issues
• providing advice to support growth, productivity, and profit improvement

In addition, the person who holds this role will be required to ensure that information and advice is delivered timely and accurately, company policies and procedures are followed, and that communication between finance and the business is seamless and strong.

Key Responsibilities

We will count on you to:

• Provide financial planning, reporting and analytics support to business partners and the leadership teams to help achieve business and financial objectives Communicates key insights regarding business performance, forecasts, budgets and sales activity to management and business leaders
• Facilitate sound management decisions through financial and metric reporting while highlighting material variances, trends, & risks/opportunities, and providing insightful commentary to the business and corporate partners
• Manage the forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning activities for the Zone
• Provide input into our financial processes and methodologies to ensure that the sophistication of our analytical capabilities continues to evolve
• Develop and maintain financial models needed to enable analytics around trends, performance, and outlook that are consistent throughout the geographies and business units
• Perform ad hoc analyses on financial data and business requests to monitor tactical decisions and enable strategic decision making
• Work with cross-functional teams (compliance, controllership, operations, human resources, etc.) to ensure that maximum leverage and efficiency are delivered to the business
• Maintain a credible, proactive, responsive, and service focused relationship with business leaders

What you need to have

• A Bachelors degree
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in financial planning & analysis, controllership, or related experience in a global operation

What makes you stand out

• MBA or CPA preferred
• Strong critical thinking / analytical skills and business decision support along with effective interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• Ability to build relationships with business leaders and influence and advise on key decisions. Proven ability to provide strategic direction and support to business leaders
• Results-focused, analytical approach with a strong customer / client service ethos
• Strong communication and negotiation skills with the ability to engage, manage and influence team members and senior stakeholders
• Strong initiative/seek and accept new challenges, and have a high level of curiosity as it relates to new projects, and finding solutions to problems
• Adaptable to a fast paced and quickly changing environment
• A desire to constantly improve and innovate, leading the candidate to examine every task and deliverable with an eye towards potential improvement and/or further ability to streamline

Why join us?

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact on colleagues, clients and communities.

Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Diversity and Inclusion

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires