Manager,Workforce Planning & Controlling Job New York New York USA,Finance & Banking

Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling

Hybrid, New York City, New York

We’re looking for Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling for Amer Sports’ office in New York.

Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

As
Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling
, you will drive the end-to-end planning cycle and analytics of our workforce resources and related personnel costs, running it with the discipline of a project and the rigor of a financial controller.

Reporting directly to the
Global Practice Lead, Performance, Rewards, Workforce Planning & People Analytics
, this role sits at the intersection of HR, Finance, and business leadership. You will join a small, fast-paced team in a growing global organization, partnering with stakeholders across our Brands, Regions, and Group Functions. Your work will have a direct and measurable impact on workforce, financial, and business decisions worldwide.

What you will be doing:

Drive the group-wide workforce planning cadence, including long-range planning, annual business planning, and quarterly forecasting. Manage each cycle as a structured project with clearly defined milestones, owners, dependencies, and deliverables, while ensuring HR and Finance planners stay aligned with timelines across all Brands, Regions, and Group Functions.
Design and maintain standardized planning templates, reporting packs, and tools used by HR and Finance planners globally, ensuring consistency, usability, and alignment with Finance reporting standards.
Ensure the accuracy and completeness of global workforce plans by establishing and monitoring planning policies, forecast timelines, data quality standards, access controls, data handling practices, and audit trails aligned with Amer Sports data governance requirements.
Coordinate and align workforce planning communities by translating planning targets and assumptions into clear direction for planners, influencing local finance controllers and stakeholders without direct authority, and proactively identifying risks and misalignments before they impact delivery.
Drive continuous improvement of workforce planning processes and the planner experience in One Stream by identifying friction points, implementing enhancements, and maintaining clear playbooks and guidance materials.
Own global workforce statistics reporting, delivering accurate and timely workforce and personnel cost reports for leadership, Finance, and business stakeholders. Establish centralized planning assumptions, monitor data quality, and perform variance analysis between plans and actual results.
Partner closely with the One Stream system administration team to translate process requirements into system enhancements, ensuring the planning platform evolves alongside business needs and that technical constraints are addressed proactively.
Support strategic initiatives and analyses, including driver-based scenario modeling for workforce and related people costs, variance analysis, and additional HR projects as needed.

What you need to succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial controlling, people cost analytics or a related function, with demonstrated experience driving complex, multi-stakeholder planning cycles.
Experience with workforce planning or headcount as a financial cost driver…