Global FP&A & Power BI Lead

Company Description

Our confidential client is a global manufacturing platform backed by a top‑tier private equity firm, delivering globally recognized technology solutions that enhance intelligence, safety, and efficiency for public transit operations. The company operates in a complex, multi‑site, project‑based environment, supporting long‑cycle customer programs across international markets.

The FP&A Manager will act as a strategic FP&A business partner and lead global FP&A business intelligence (BI) reporting.

• Monitor and analyze global engineering costs, spending, and budget.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance product‑level profit and loss (P&L) statements.
• Support and manage financial models for new business cases, capital investment decisions, and engineering initiatives.
• Lead the global engineering budgeting process, including the development of assumptions, identification of risks and opportunities, and coordination of forecast updates.
• Provide financial guidance, insight, and stewardship to the engineering leadership team.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and FP&A teams to improve transparency into margin, cost structures, and business case economics.

• Own the design, development, and maintenance of global FP&A dashboards in Power BI.
• Consolidate reporting from multiple BUs into consistent, enterprise‑wide views.
• Collaborate with IT to define and manage data sources, automation, dashboard build‑out, user access, and refresh processes.
• Strengthen consistency in KPIs, definitions, and reporting formats across BUs.
• Drive the transition of FP&A reporting from manual, Excel‑based processes to scalable, standardized dashboards.
• Develop executive‑ready reporting views that provide clear, decision‑ready insights for senior leaders.