Global FP&A Manager

Job Summary about the area and the role:

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.

At VWTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. Were an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The FP&A Manager, along with their team, will support the Global FP&A Senior Manager and the Functional Leaders in developing and executing the companys financial and strategic plans. In this role, the manager will work closely with senior management, providing analytical support, financial analysis, and strategic planning. The FP&A Manager will collaborate with various global functional leaders of VWTS to build annual budgets, prepare quarterly forecasts, monitor monthly results, and work on strategic initiatives to optimize financial performance.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Organize and lead a group of FP&A Analysts 1-2 direct, allocate workload efficiently, implement knowledge transfer, ensure back up is organized for critical FP&A activities, and ensure the documentation of processes and procedures.
• Support the annual budgeting process for global headquarter spending and SG&A by function, including staffing levels, expense projections, and investment decisions.
• Assess corporate finance goals, implement and track appropriate roadmaps to achieve these.
• Update headquarter and SG&A spend, current quarter, and current year forecasting outlooks each month. Work closely with functional and business leaders to build, report revised projections, and deliver the budget.
• Provide detailed analysis by function of monthly variations to Budget and to Prior year, isolating one-timers, in partnership with the Compensation and Benefit Analysts, and including Indirect spend impacts.
• Organize the monthly financial closing activities for the headquarters functions and businesses’ SG&A components, including validating journal entries and accruals with the controllership team.
• Develop efficiencies and process improvements within the team’s work streams.
• Provide support for ad-hoc requests and analysis.
• Prepare and present to Senior Leadership detailed reporting packs with insightful commentary on the financial results, variance analysis, key drivers and KPIs.
• Find ways to drive Business performance and ensure the implementation of these with Senior Management.

Key Characteristics

• Collaborative
• Provide turn-key deliverables
• Thorough analytical thinker with attention to detail

Hard Skills

• Ability to highlight main drivers and key messages from complex sets of data.
• Proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets. Knowledge of advanced functions like X-Look Ups, Pivots, Array Formulas, etc.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple deliverables with competing deadlines.

Soft Skills (Finance Competency Based Model). Please, don’t change it!

• Inclusive: Passioned for working in different cultures and environments, in a collaborative organization with a diversity team.
• Team Player: Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.
• Inspirational: Excellent oral and written communication skills: Communicate clearly and professionally with Finance and non-Finance professionals within the organization being able to inspire others.
• Decision Maker: Challenge the status quo and make decisions based on your role to be an effective problem solver and use critical thinking skills to find new ideas and connect them to provide the best practices and tools to our stakeholders and clients.
• Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and to constructively create opportunities for change through active participation.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Master's degree in finance or accounting
• 10+ years’ experience in finance or accounting
• Experience with BI/reporting tools
• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills
• Demonstrated growth in professional experience

Preferred (if applicable):

• Global experience
• SAP experience
• Tableau experience, or similar business intelligence reporting tool
• Prior management experience is a plus