FP&A Manager - Planning

Position Summary

This role is a core finance partner for Proximo, supporting portfolio, investment, and performance decisions. The FP&A Manager turns data into insight and insight into action—helping leaders allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities and drive disciplined performance against plan.

The FP&A Manager partners closely with the Sr. Director, Strategic FP&A and Business Unit leaders across Commercial, Marketing, RGM, Operations/Supply Chain, and Corporate Functions to support long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and OPEX/SG&A governance. The role owns critical planning and performance routines, builds high-quality executive-ready insights, and strengthens the tools, templates, and analytics that enable faster, better decisions. This individual helps ensure IBP/S&OP and commercial planning outputs are tightly connected to financial commitments, with standardized metrics and a “single source of truth.”

• Support the Sr. Director in providing decision support to the CEO/CFO/ELT through clear analysis, recommendations, and executive-ready materials.
• Serves as the enterprise integrator across Commercial, RGM, and Operations—balancing growth, cost, and cash outcomes.
• Maintain and manage components of the Executive Deliverables Calendar to ensure timely inputs to QBRs, Commercial Committee, Management Committee, and Board materials.
• Prepare recurring performance updates (e.g., Shipments vs. Depletions) with drivers, risks, and recommended actions.
• Deliver ad-hoc analyses and special projects tied to investment decisions, pricing actions, portfolio choices, and performance management.
• Plays a central support role in capital and resource allocation decisions, evaluating investments using ROI, economic profit, and long‑term value creation frameworks.
• Owns development of upside/downside scenarios and recommends actions and trade‑offs to senior leadership.

• Own shipment-based forecasting routines for volume and key P&L lines; produce variance explanations and Risks/Opportunities vs Plan/LE.
• Build scenario analyses (upside/downside) to support decisions and proactively surface risks and opportunities.
• Maintain KPI dashboards, scorecards, and performance tracking to link strategy to execution and enable early course correction.
• Track bonus KPIs and ensure consistent definitions, visibility, and governance.

• Support disciplined cost management by partnering with functional leaders to ensure spend aligns to strategy, budget, and productivity targets.
• Drive monthly variance reviews: identify root causes, quantify impacts, and coordinate corrective actions and follow-ups.
• Maintain SG&A forecasts/budgets across functions (Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, IT, Legal, etc.) and highlight structural cost opportunities.
• Assist in evaluating vendor proposals and investment requests using return-based frameworks.

• Support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) calendar, assumptions, templates, and cross‑functional coordination.
• Build and maintain planning models and tools (including “budget gaming” / sensitivity models) to improve transparency and decision quality.
• Help translate strategic priorities into measurable financial targets and performance metrics.
• Ensure brand/SKU/innovation economics are embedded into planning, forecasts, and investment decisions.
• Key support for 3-year outlook models and scenarios
• Assists to ensure plans bridge from strategy -> favorable financial outcomes
• Develops clear linkage between LRP and annual AOP guardrails

• Partner with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to align demand/supply plans with financial commitments.
• Support IBP/S&OP cadence outputs (IDP/M  support) with clear financial implications and decision points.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and inventory health metrics; identify improvement actions with stakeholders.
• Support distributor inventory management and shipment guidance routines as required.

• Partner with RGM, Commercial, and Marketing to integrate pricing,…