FP&A Senior Project Manager

FP&A Senior Project Manager

We are searching for an experienced FP&A Senior Project Manager at our Palmer HQ facility.

The Senior Project Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), leads complex, cross-functional financial and strategic initiatives that support organizational priorities and executive decision-making.

This role combines project management, financial analysis, business partnership, and strategic execution. The Senior Project Manager works across Finance and operational departments to develop business cases, coordinate financial planning initiatives, manage strategic projects, evaluate investments, track financial outcomes, and ensure projects move from analysis to execution.

Reporting within the FP&A function, this position serves as a bridge between Finance, operational leaders, and executive leadership, bringing structure, accountability, and financial discipline to key organizational initiatives.

• Lead high-impact financial and operational projects from initial concept through implementation and post-project evaluation.
• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and accountability.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams involving Finance, Accounting, Operations, Iside Plant, Outside Plant, IT, Marketing, and other departments.
• Identify project risks, roadblocks, resource constraints, and financial impacts and escalated issues appropriately.
• Facilitate project meetings and maintain clear documentation of decisions, responsibilities, and next steps.
• Provide concise project-status reporting to FP&A and executive leadership.

• Develop and coordinate financial business cases for strategic initiatives, capital investments, new products and services, technology investments, and other organizational priorities.
• Partner with FP&A leadership to develop financial models evaluating revenue, operating costs, capital investment, cash flow, and return on investment.
• Perform sensitivity and scenario analysis to identify major financial risks and decision points.
• Coordinate assumptions across departments and ensure financial models are supported by clearly documented business assumptions.
• Translate financial analysis into clear recommendations for decision-makers.

• Support the development and management of the organization's long-range capital plan.
• Coordinate financial evaluation of significant capital projects and strategic investments.
• Partner with operational stakeholders to establish project assumptions, expected benefits, costs, timelines, and performance measures.
• Monitor major investments against approved budgets and business cases.
• Conduct post-project reviews comparing actual financial and operational results with original expectations.
• Identify lessons learned that can improve future capital and business-case decisions.

• Support annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning.
• Coordinate planning inputs from departments and ensure assumptions are documented and internally consistent.
• Analyze significant budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual variances.
• Assist FP&A leadership in identifying emerging financial risks and opportunities.
• Help translate operational plans and project activity into financial forecasts.

• Serve as a finance partner to operational and department leaders on major initiatives.
• Help project owners understand the financial implications of operating decisions.
• Facilitate conversations between Finance and operational teams when assumptions, priorities, or financial expectations differ.
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