Senior FP&A & Financial Operations Specialist

Senior FP&A & Financial Operations Specialist

Job Category: Accounting

Requisition Number: SENIO
001182

• Full-Time

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Senior FP&A & Financial Operations Specialist

Do you want a career without limits? Do you want to shape your own future and be surrounded by people who listen? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at Smith + Howard.

Smith + Howard is a family of companies that offers tax, audit, accounting and advisory and wealth management services. We are headquartered in Atlanta with offices across the Southeast, while still offering a local firm flavor.

We offer competitive pay, excellent training opportunities and great benefits. You can help influence our culture and have the support and dedication from our leaders to help you achieve your career goals. Smith + Howard provides a great opportunity for professional growth and advancement within one of the nation’s top accounting firms.

If you are ready to make a career move and join a firm consistently named a “Best of the Best Firms” (Inside Public Accounting), we invite you to complete our employment application.

Summary

Reporting to the VP of Finance and serving as a strategic partner to practice leaders and firm leadership, you drive financial decision-making, practice-level performance analysis, and revenue strategy while maintaining oversight of key accounting processes and financial controls. Because this position spans both operational accounting and strategic FP&A, the ideal candidate works comfortably across the full financial picture—from general ledger detail and month-end close accuracy to leadership-ready executive analysis and forecasting.

You will partner directly with practice directors and managers to help them understand and act on financial performance while ensuring the firm’s financial processes remain efficient, accurate, and scalable.

Essential Functions

• Partner with Advisory practice leaders to analyze financial data at the engagement, service line, and practice levels, identifying trends, performance drivers, and opportunities for revenue growth, margin expansion, and cost discipline within the Advisory business.
• Translate complex financial data and analyses into clear reports and presentations that help Advisory practice leaders and management make informed strategic and operational decisions.
• Conduct detailed revenue analysis of Advisory business lines using invoice-level and engagement data, evaluating trends related to geographic dispersion, service line profitability, client segmentation, ownership type, cross-selling opportunities, and revenue retention.
• Serve as a trusted resource to Advisory practice managers and leaders, explaining financial metrics, business drivers, and performance implications in terms relevant to operational decision-making.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive rolling forecasts, budgets, and integrated financial models that support strategic planning and decision-making for the Advisory business lines.
• Model revenue drivers, practice economics, profitability, and cash flow dynamics at both the Advisory and individual practice levels to inform strategic discussions and resource allocation decisions.
• Conduct scenario analysis and variance analysis, evaluating the financial impact of different business decisions and diagnosing root causes of budget-to-actual variances.
• Support long-term financial planning including headcount planning, capacity analysis, and workforce economics that align with growth strategy.

Executive Reporting & Strategic Communications

• Prepare comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages for senior leadership, including financial performance summaries, variance commentary, and forward-looking analysis.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards (Power BI or similar tools) that provide practice leaders and finance leadership with real-time visibility into KPIs across financial, operational, sales, and people metrics.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and insights to support strategic decisions and executive discussions on matters such as pricing, resource allocation, service line economics, and growth initiatives.

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