Strategic FP&A Leader, Corporate Planning (Hybrid)

A. O. Smith Corp; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

Retirement savings plan

Company-sponsored life insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Tuition assistance

Job summary

A. O. Smith Corp, based in Milwaukee, seeks a Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A to lead enterprise planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support.

This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes. The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations,

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.
• 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.
• Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, and business judgment.
• Excellent executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex information.
• Process improvement mindset with ability to create scalable, repeatable solutions.
• Strong reporting and dashboard orientation with attention to data quality and usability.
• Collaborative leadership style with ability to influence across teams and senior levels.
• High attention to detail, disciplined execution, and strong project management skills.
• High integrity, professionalism, discretion, accountability, and commitment to developing talent.

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, and 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.
• Experience with SAP and OneStream is a plus.
• Model strong business partnership, attention to detail, and accountability.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint skills

Executive communication

Analytical mindset

Project management

Collaboration

Education

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

MBA, CPA, CFA or relevant certification preferred

Tools

SAP

OneStream

Co-Pilot

Job description

A. O. Smith Corp, based in Milwaukee, seeks a Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A to lead enterprise planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support.

This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes. The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations,