Manager, Financial Planning

The Manager, Financial Planning is responsible for managing day-to-day execution of budgeting and forecasting processes and ensuring high quality planning outputs for Regional Finance and Regional Team. This role translates planning standards into execution, leads forecast cycles, reviews assumptions and variances, and serves as a primary planning partner to assigned regions.

• Lead annual budget development and ongoing forecast cycles for assigned regions.
• Manage the monthly forecast close, including data validation, variance analysis, and issue resolution.
• Review forecast to forecast variances and challenge assumptions related to occupancy, MIMO, staffing, and expenses.
• Oversee Adaptive Planning expense splits and allocation logic to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Model distributions and contributions and review outputs for reasonableness and compliance with parameters.
• Prepare and review budget packages, dashboards, and presentations for Regional Finance.
• Support Regional Finance and Community Resources through training, troubleshooting, and process guidance on budget tools.
• Contribute to development of planning guidance, calendars, and standardized templates.
• Train and onboard new team members, ensuring they understand systems, processes, and company standards.
• Assign, prioritize, and review work to ensure timely and accurate completion activities.
• Monitor workload and staffing needs, making recommendations for hiring, restructuring, or process automation.
• Responsible for the effective management and leadership of a team. This includes, but is not limited to: hiring, training, coaching, evaluating and managing performance, allocating compensation, effectively handling employee relations issues, and managing terminations.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; or equivalent years of experience
• 6 years of experience in FP&A or financial planning, with leadership or project lead responsibilities
• Strong financial modeling and variance analysis skills
• Advanced proficiency in planning tools and Excel
• Prior experience leading, supervising, or formally managing staff
• Strong understanding of financial planning, analytical frameworks, and performance drivers
• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Manage competing priorities and workloads
  • Develop and coach professional staff
  • Enforce standards and accountability
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to lead teams and influence stakeholders

Competitive pay, great benefits and vacation time. We are an equal opportunity employer with benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, disability, 401(K) with company match and paid parental leave.

Travel frequency: 0-10%

A POST-OFFER BACKGROUND CHECK, INCLUDING REFERENCES IS REQUIRED.

LCS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

• Job Identification 37308
• Posting Date 06/19/2026, 08:47 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA, 50309, US