Strategic FP&A Leader, Corporate Finance

A. O. Smith Corporation; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Disability programs

Job summary

A. O. Smith Corporation, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, seeks a Senior Manager for Corporate FP&A to lead planning, forecasting, reporting, and executive decision support.

You will partner with senior leadership to deliver actionable insights and scalable financial tools that drive performance across the enterprise. The role focuses on enterprise planning, dashboard development, data governance, and continuous improvement of FP&A processes, with strong emphasis on collaboration and

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 experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related analytical role.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, working capital, capital expenditures, margin analysis, and key operating metrics.
• Experience with planning, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, variance analysis, and executive financial 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 business unit FP&A teams, corporate functions, and senior leadership.
• Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or public company experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
• Experience with ERP, planning, reporting, or enterprise performance management systems required; SAP, OneStream and Co-Pilot experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and recurring financial reviews.
• Partner with business unit FP&A teams to evaluate results, business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze consolidated performance versus plan, forecast, prior year, and prior outlooks across key financial metrics.
• Develop financial models, scenarios, sensitivities, and driver-based analyses to support decisions.
• 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 consistent financial metrics.
• Automate recurring reporting and improve timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial information.
• Lead continuous improvement across FP&A processes, templates, models, workflows, and reporting routines.
• Recommend and implement practical, scalable improvements to planning, forecasting, and management reporting.
• Partner with finance, accounting, IT, and business teams to improve data governance, automation, system functionality, and controls.
• Drive adoption of improved tools, dashboards, planning models, and standard work.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to business unit FP&A teams and corporate functions.
• Support analysis of performance trends, variances, and actions to improve financial results.
• Facilitate alignment, information sharing, and best practices across finance teams.
• Provide decision support for strategic initiatives, productivity programs, capital investments, acquisitions, and other priorities.
• Prepare executive financial analyses, presentations, and performance summaries.
• Support Board, earnings, investor relations, and external communication materials.
• Ensure materials are accurate, concise, well-supported, and aligned with the company’s performance narrative.
• Analyze peer, market, and business performance trends to support executive and investor-facing communications.
• Support planning, reporting, and enterprise performance management system improvements.
• Partner with system owners and users to enhance reporting, dashboards, workflows, and data integrity.
• Define business requirements, test enhancements, document processes, and support adoption.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Dashboard development

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic partnership

Education

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

MBA/CPA/CFA or relevant certification preferred

Tools

SAP

OneStream

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

A. O. Smith Corporation, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, seeks a Senior Manager for Corporate FP&A to lead planning, forecasting, reporting, and executive decision support.

You will partner with senior leadership to deliver actionable insights and scalable financial tools that drive performance across the enterprise. The role focuses on enterprise planning, dashboard development, data governance, and continuous improvement of FP&A processes, with strong emphasis on collaboration and