Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis; Hybrid

At Globe Life, we are committed to empowering our employees with the support and opportunities they need to succeed at every stage of their career. We take pride in fostering a caring and innovative culture that enables us to collectively grow and overcome challenges in a connected, collaborative, and mutually respectful environment that calls us to help Make Tomorrow Better.

Could you be our next Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
? Globe Life is looking for a Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis to join the team!

In this role, you will be responsible for providing executive leadership with timely, high-quality, and accurate annual operating plans, long-term forecasts, and quarterly revisions. Reporting to the Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, this individual is expected to lead the business analysis, forecasting, and planning processes, but also expected to provide insights and information to help executive leadership make better business decisions.

This individual is responsible for building and enhancing complex financial models, reporting tools, and dashboards to improve accuracy, efficiency, and overall visibility of financial data. The position has direct management responsibilities for one or more Financial Analysts.

• Accurately forecast and report financial results on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis utilizing performance management software. Provide analysis and insight of current or forecasted results and the go-forward impact on the business and financials.
• Provide comprehensive variance analysis, including performance to budget/forecast, identification of gaps, trends, and opportunities within the company, and provide recommendations for possible course corrections necessary to functional department heads and executive leadership.
• Support the design and optimization of Anaplan’s planning modules, workflow, and dashboard capabilities to engage planners, reviewers, and executive approvers at the right time and in a meaningful way.
• Partner with the sales organization and business functions to provide key financial reporting, analytical decision support, recommendations and action plans that drive more efficient and profitable results.
• Organize complex information in a strategic and compelling way, demonstrating strong design acumen and expertise in Excel and PowerPoint techniques. Develop mock-ups quickly and iteratively for management presentations, reports, and dashboards.
• Establish and facilitate the company’s annual planning cycle, which includes developing the calendar, coordinating deliverables, creating checklists, communicating expectations, and supporting system readiness.
• Identify, recommend, and lead change management efforts through collaboration with business partners and other areas within the office of the CFO to improve reporting accuracy, eliminate inefficiencies, reduce workloads, and eliminate redundancies.
• Evaluate current financial planning processes and tools and lead potential implementation or refinement of new financial planning and reporting software applications.
• Serve as an active member of project/initiative teams – effectively challenging assumptions and offering financial perspective to drive outcomes.
• Set team priorities that are aligned with business needs and shape the roles and assignments to take advantage of team members’ capabilities.
• Willingness to work, at times and as needed, long hours during the week and on weekends to meet quarterly reporting requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, accounting, economics, or a related field is required; MBA, other advanced degrees.
• 5-8 years in corporate financial planning and analysis, with increasing level of responsibility.
• 2-3 years managerial experience preferred.
• CPA, or CFA is a plus.
• Strong analytic, organizational, and problem-solving skills which allows for strategic data interpretation versus simple reporting; comfortable manipulating and analyzing large volumes of data.
• Experience applying a broad range of…