Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (Future Opportunity)

Alaska Communications; United States; On-site; USD 117,046 - 160,007; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Communications is seeking a Sr. Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to lead a team responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and reporting. This leadership role involves managing budgets and optimizing costs to drive accountability and improve customer experiences.

The ideal candidate will have at least eight years of relevant experience, strong analytical skills, and a bachelor's degree in finance or a related field. This position is pivotal in supporting decision-making at all levels of the organization and engaging with executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial analysis or accounting.
• 3+ years in management or supervision.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Financial Planning team.
• Oversee annual operating budget creation.
• Provide variance analysis of financial performance.
• Lead the development of financial models and forecasts.
• Facilitate the budgeting and forecasting process.

Skills

Business and Process Leadership

Analytical Skill

Financial Aptitude

Business Acumen

Communication Skills

Adaptability

Management Skills

Project Management

Collaboration

Lean Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field

Master’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At Alaska Communications, we’re committed to putting our team first, always being customer focused, having a can‑do attitude, owning our results and always acting with integrity. This is what we hire for and what our team members exhibit each day. Want to make an impact with us?

We are unable to support remote international applicants or routinely sponsor work visas.

The Compensation Range For This Job Is $117,046.00 - $160,007.00

This is a Future Opportunity. This is an ongoing posting. Applications will be actively reviewed for current and future openings and filled as vacancies become available. Please note while you may not be contacted immediately, we welcome your interest and look forward to connecting as openings arise.

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis is a key leadership position within the Company and manages a team responsible for financial planning, forecasting, cost assurance, internal reporting, and related analysis of financial and sales performance. The Manager is responsible for overseeing the preparation of various reporting measures including budgets, long term models, BVR’s and KPI’s which drives accountability within the company and improves customer experience outside the organization. The Manager balances between finance and operations and works cross functionally to present key data on multiple platforms to support decision‑making throughout the business. The role is responsible for optimizing the cost of goods sold spending. The position interacts with executive leadership and provides key reports to the Board of Directors.

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Examples Of Job Duties

• Lead and develop the Financial Planning team, to include providing work assignments, direction/assistance, mentoring/coaching, developing skills/competencies, recruiting and performance management. Ensure adequate resource allocation to deliver results which directly impact financial performance. Act as a point of escalation.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of the company’s annual operating budget, including sales, revenue, cogs, operating expenses, gross margin, capital spending and balance sheet.
• Drive analysis of actual results vs. budgeted, forecasted, and historical results. Provide meaningful variance analysis of key drivers impacting results and trends. Support all departments in managing their budgets.
• Oversee the development of financial models, forecasting tools and ad‑hoc analysis to assist the senior leadership team with strategic decisions. Assist the CFO with the maintenance of the long‑term forecast model.
• Lead the budget process, resulting in preparation of detailed, driver‑based operating and capital budgets. Partner with all areas of the company to understand key drivers of revenue, COGS, operating expense, and capital and ensure consistent assumptions across all areas.
• Lead the development of the five‑year forecast.
• Perform other duties and complete projects not specified on this job description, as assigned.

Competency Statements

• Business and Process Leadership – A keen understanding of business processes including sales, customer service, ordering, service delivery, billing, customer support, capital spending and cost assurance with the ability to map processes and understand inter‑linkages to each other and to the systems that support the processes. Ability to drive process metrics and measures, measurement points in a process and the ability to drive customer experience improvements and process change. Strong capabilities in vendor management and integrating vendor provided support to technical and process functions of the engineering organization.
• Analytical Skill – Ability to use critical thinking and reasoning in gathering and processing complex data with succinct decision‑making skills.
• Financial Aptitude – Ability to understand and explain economic and accounting information, prepare, and manage budgets and forecasts, and make sound long‑term investment decisions.
• Business Acumen – Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communication Skills – Successful candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Position will require frequent preparation and delivery of detailed plans and proposals at the executive and Board level. Strong communication/interpersonal skills with emphasis on decision‑making, conflict management, and team building and teamwork. Must have ability to develop work plans, work effectively as a member of a team, report on status of projects, and represent the team in meetings and/or with the customer, and be able to coordinate issues identification and resolution between customers and the development team. Ability to present complicated information in an easily understandable way in front of large audiences.
• Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Adaptability – Ability to preserve flexibility in a fast‑paced environment, and continually evolve to meet the changing business needs.
• Management Skills – Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others.
• Project Management – Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
• Collaboration – This position has a high degree of interaction across the organization, and as such requires skills to work with peers and superiors that have many other competing priorities for their time.
• Lean Leadership – Actively grows and promotes lean process improvement usage within department and within Company. Strives to eliminate all waste – that which does not bring value to the customer – using Lean PI.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Required Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field. Preferred: Master’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field.

Experience Required Eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, or a closely related discipline. At least three of these years should be in supervision or management of employees or processes, with a demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and priorities.

Computer Skills Demonstrated proficiency working with Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook.

Additional Requirements Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in an organization’s business processes, as well as the skill to conduct root cause analysis. Aptitude to effectively manage work groups and teams to successful completion, including planning, implementation, follow‑through, monitoring, and the refining of processes as needed to support ACS business requirements.

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