Sr. Manager FP&A

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Location(s):

Milwaukee, WI, US,

Business Unit: CORPORATE

Workplace Setting:
Hybrid

The Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A leads enterprise financial planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support. This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes.

The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations, corporate functions, and other stakeholders to deliver actionable financial insights and scalable tools that support better business decisions.

A.O. Smith is a global leader applying innovative technologies and energy-efficient solutions to products manufactured and marketed worldwide. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heating equipment and boilers, as well as a manufacturer of water treatment products for residential and light commercial applications.

A. O. Smith is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with approximately 12,000 employees at operations in the United States, Canada, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

The Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A leads enterprise financial planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support. This role strengthens visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities while improving the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes.

The Senior Manager partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations, corporate functions, and other stakeholders to deliver actionable financial insights and scalable tools that support better business decisions.

• Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and recurring financial reviews.
• Partner with business unit FP&A teams to evaluate results, business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze consolidated performance versus plan, forecast, prior year, and prior outlooks across key financial metrics.
• Develop financial models, scenarios, sensitivities, and driver-based analyses to support decisions.
• Improve forecast quality, planning discipline, and consistency of assumptions.

• Develop management reporting packages, dashboards, scorecards, and executive summaries.
• Translate financial and operational data into concise, decision-ready insights.
• Standardize reporting definitions, improve data quality, and ensure consistent financial metrics.
• Automate recurring reporting and improve timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial information.

• Lead continuous improvement across FP&A processes, templates, models, workflows, and reporting routines.
• Recommend and implement practical, scalable improvements to planning, forecasting, and management reporting.
• Partner with finance, accounting, IT, and business teams to improve data governance, automation, system functionality, and controls.
• Drive adoption of improved tools, dashboards, planning models, and standard work.

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to business unit FP&A teams and corporate functions.
• Support analysis of performance trends, variances, and actions to improve financial results.
• Facilitate alignment, information sharing, and best practices across finance teams.
• Provide decision support for strategic initiatives, productivity programs, capital investments, acquisitions, and other priorities.

• Prepare executive financial analyses, presentations, and performance summaries.
• Support Board, earnings, investor relations, and external communication materials.
• Ensure materials are accurate, concise, well-supported, and aligned with the company’s performance narrative.
• Analyze peer, market, and business performance trends to support executive and investor-facing communications.

• Support planning, reporting, and enterprise performance management system improvements.
• Partner with system owners and users to enhance reporting, dashboards, workflows, and data…