Lucas Group is North America's premier executive search firm. Since 1970, our culture and methodologies have driven superior results. We assist mid-tier to Fortune 500 clients in finding transcendent, executive talent. Candidates fully realize their career ambitions; and associates find professional success.
We have been engaged by a 40M PE owned green manufacturing company seeking a Finance Manager to lead their FP&A and report to the CFO. This will be located at their HQ location in Buckhead and will be an individual contributor and be the primary finance touchpoint for all financial advice, analysis and support for budgets, forecasts, and results. He/she supports global process improvements, financial systems initiatives and innovations in analysis and forecasting.
Compensation: $80,000 - $85,000 target salary plus 15% bonus
Location: Buckhead
Representative Duties:
- Support budgeting activities for business partners including target-setting, budgeting, preparation of systems templates, ensure business partners adherence to deadlines, and perform checks on loaded budgets to confirm compliance to communicated targets.
- Prepare month-end reports and communicate results to leadership.
- Analyze financial results to identify key drivers of variances. Utilize various analysis techniques to identify insights and communicate to business unit leaders.
- Develop monthly forecasts reflecting drivers of significant variances with functional leaders.
- Operate as business partner and advisor to cross-functional departments and convey understanding of financial impact for operational decisions.
- Assist in process improvements in planning, reporting, forecasting, and analysis to drive efficiencies, improve data integrity and derive insights to support business leadership decision-making.
- Support special projects as requested by leadership to support strategic initiatives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. MBA is a plus.
- At least 5 years of experience working within a manufacturing or CPG company is a plus.
- Experience with Sales Finance and P&L management, along with knowledge of financial systems and general accounting concepts (GAAP)
- Advanced Excel Skills and experience in complex financial modeling
- Experience with large ERP Platforms. NetSuite preferred, but not required.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize and effectively convey findings to management and functional areas
- Proven ability to self-motivate in a fast-paced environment, ability to deal with ambiguity, change and a dynamic business environment.
- Proven ability to develop strong relationships and partnerships with internal customers, peers and effectively manage those relationships.
- Able to exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
- Good business acumen and be able to appropriately handle confidential information
Lucas Group is a nationwide executive search firm with practice groups including Accounting & Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics, Manufacturing and Military Transition. Please visit us at www.LucasGroup.com.
Logistics, Manufacturing and Military Transition. Please visit us at www.LucasGroup.com.
