Senior FP&A Manager

Empire Auto Parts is building a new Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team to bring rigor, speed, and strategic insight to how we plan, forecast, and measure the business. The FP&A Manager will lead this function day-to-day, owning the monthly forecast and annual budget processes, building executive-level reporting, and working closely with senior leadership to support strategic decision-making.

This role offers a dynamic and collaborative environment, where you will work with various departments to profitably grow sales, support warehouse and delivery performance, and improve inventory turns. This is a highly visible, build-from-scratch role for someone who wants ownership over how a growing distribution business plans and measures itself. The FP&A Manager will lead one analyst and report directly to the CFO.What

Success Looks Like in Year One
• A well-functioning FP&A team with clear processes and growing scope
• A documented, repeatable monthly forecast process in place and adopted by the organization
• A smooth, on-time annual budget cycle with strong department engagement
• Executive reporting package delivered monthly/quarterly that leadership relies on to track strategic initiatives
• Measurable improvement in inventory turns and at least one quantified operational efficiency win in warehouse or delivery

Duties/Responsibilities Forecasting and Budgeting
• Design, implement, and own a repeatable monthly forecast process across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital and cash flow
• Lead the annual budget process end-to-end to develop accurate and actionable financial plans: calendar, templates, department submissions, consolidation, and CFO/executive review
• Manage budget-vs-actual and forecast-vs-actual variance analysis, with clear narrative on drivers and corrective actions
• Develop and maintain financial models to assess business performance and forecast future trends

Executive Reporting
• Build monthly and quarterly executive reporting packages that translate financial and operational results into a clear view of progress against the company's strategic initiatives
• Prepare regular financial reports and presentations for senior management and stakeholders, highlighting key performance metrics, trends, and insights
• Present financial results and forecasts to senior leadership, including risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
• Continuously improve reporting efficiency and accuracy through standardized templates, automation, and single source of truth for key metrics

Strategic Support and Performance Monitoring
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models that connect operational KPIs (order volume, fill rate, delivery routes, labor hours) to financial outcomes
• Partner with the CFO and executive team to define the KPI framework and scorecards used to run the business
• Act as the finance business partner to sales and operations leadership, delivering insightful and reliable analyses and supporting key initiatives
• Own inventory analytics in partnership with Procurement: track inventory turns, aging, and carrying cost, and lead initiatives to improve turns without harming service levels
• Build the business case and ROI analysis for operational and capital investment decisions

Technology and Process Efficiency
• Champion the use of AI tools to accelerate variance analysis, commentary drafting, data cleansing, and report generation. Shift time away from manual data-gathering and toward analysis and business partnership
• Partner with IT to continuously improve the company’s dashboards as the primary vehicle for executive and operational reporting
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the quality and accuracy of financial information and…