FP&A Business Partner

SUMMARY:

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Business Partner provides financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis across the Company's vertically integrated operations, including cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, retail, and corporate functions. This position partners with the Vice President and business leaders to evaluate financial and operational performance, identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide forward-looking insights and recommendations that support profitability, cash flow, and informed business decisions.

The FP&A Business Partner is expected to operate with a high degree of independence and exercise sound judgment in managing assigned responsibilities.

• Supports and independently manages components of the annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning processes across business units and departments.
• Develops and maintains financial models and forecasts incorporating financial results, operational performance, business assumptions, and changing business conditions.
• Analyzes financial and operational performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key drivers of material variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Evaluates revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, profitability, and other key performance measures by business unit, location, product, customer, and sales channel, as applicable.
• Partners with leaders across cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, retail, and corporate functions to understand business performance, validate assumptions, and provide financial insight to support operational and strategic decisions.
• Analyzes key business drivers, including sales, pricing, volume, product mix, discounts, labor, production yields, inventory, and operating costs to understand their impact on financial performance.
• Develops scenario, sensitivity, profitability, ROI, and other financial analyses to evaluate investments, operational changes, capital expenditures, new initiatives, and other business decisions.
• Supports cash flow and working capital analysis, including inventory investment, accounts receivable, accounts payable, capital expenditures, and other significant cash requirements.
• Partners with Accounting during the month-end close process to understand financial results, investigate material or unusual activity, and incorporate current performance into forecasts and management reporting.
• Develops and maintains financial and operational dashboards, KPI reporting, and management reporting that provide leadership with clear visibility into business performance.
• Prepares financial analysis, insights, and supporting materials for executive leadership meetings, business reviews, budgeting and forecasting discussions, and other management presentations.
• Independently identifies material financial or operational issues, conducts appropriate analysis to determine underlying drivers, and provides data-supported recommendations to leadership.
• Supports strategic initiatives and special projects by evaluating alternatives and assessing the financial and operational impact of proposed business decisions.
• Identifies and implements opportunities to improve financial models, reporting, forecasting processes, data quality, and overall FP&A efficiency.
• Manages multiple priorities and recurring deliverables with minimal supervision while maintaining accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate communication of material issues.
• Executes ad hoc projects as assigned by direct supervisor.

• Business Acumen:
  Understands financial performance and the relationship between operational activity, profitability, cash flow, and overall business results.
• Analytical Thinking:
  Evaluates complex information, recognizes meaningful patterns and relationships, and draws well-supported conclusions.
• Collaborative:
  Works effectively across departments and supports other teams as business needs require.
• Strategic Thinking:
  Looks beyond historical results to consider future implications, risks, opportunities, and alternative courses of action.
• Independence & Judgment:
  Operates with minimal supervision, exercises sound judgment, and determines appropriate approaches to assignments and business questions.
• Relationship-Building:
  Builds credibility and effective working relationships with financial and operational leaders while maintaining an objective financial…