Global FP&A Manager - Financial, Planning, Analysis & Reporting

Danbury, CT, United States

Global FP&A Manager
- Financial, Planning, Analysis & Reporting

What you will enjoy doing*

* This role requires you to work onsite at our Corporate HQ in Danbury, CT 5 days/wk. You should also be open to relocation outside of Danbury within 3 years.

• In this individual contributor role, you will review and perform vs. prior period and vs. forecast variance analysis, support Investor Relations and Executive Management, provide training and support to global business units, and perform Ad Hoc reporting and analysis
• You will review and perform monthly and quarterly Year on Year and sequential sales, OP, and cost variance analysis to ensure accuracy and understand all drivers to explain trends
• Perform group consolidation for forecasting process, as well as drive forecasting process for non-OP items including interest expense, income taxes, JV income, and cash flow
• Drive data reconciliation efforts between Hyperion Planning and Accounting modules during monthly close process, ensuring consistency across the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows
• Further, you will assist in the preparation of presentation materials to senior management, highlighting the trends of each business, and areas of risk and opportunity
• Perform research and prepare presentations used for quarterly earnings calls and investor & board of director meetings
• Monitor, compare/analyze and report on relevant macroeconomic, key customer/industry and competitor information
• Provide guidance on corporate policy for reporting, including categorization, proper accounting and best practices for forecasting and estimating
• Drive consistency, accuracy, and transparency of internal / external reporting throughout the organization
• Perform ad hoc business analysis, as needed, including benchmarking, research, presenting alternative strategies to current plans, and modeling impact of various business decisions
• Help maintain, improve and build budget and forecast models, templates and analytical tools for FTEs, sales by end market, FX impacts, forecast changes, etc.
• Also, you will prepare financial templates and presentations for all elements of the financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow) and execute relevant analysis

What makes you great

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is required, and CPA and/or MBA is preferred
• Five to seven (5-7) years of Finance experience is required
• You have strong communication skills
• Industrial Gas industry experience is desired but not required
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (incl. Power Query), Microsoft PowerPoint, and knowledge of Hyperion Planning preferred
• You have the ability to travel periodically, as necessary
• Excellent problem solving, process management and time management skills
• Ability to act with high integrity and trust
• Ability to work comfortably in a fast-paced environment
• Must be open to relocation outside of Danbury within 3 years

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2024 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life‑saving medical oxygen and high‑purity & specialty gases for electronics.…