FP&A Finance Manager, Functional & Global Reporting

Position: FP&A Finance Manager, Functional Areas & Global Reporting

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FP&A Finance Manager,

Functional Area

s & Global Reporting

GCP Finance Full Time Mexicali, Baja California, MX

Position Summary:

Acts as the finance business partner to the company's functional areas, including HR, R&D and Supply Chain. Build strong working relationships with functional leaders, reviews financial results with them, and helps them understand and manage their numbers. Analyzes payroll, monthly results and variances, and evaluates the financial impact of proposed changes such as new suppliers, organizational restructures and new projects. Leads the budget process with functional leaders to project their numbers, and partners with HR on global payroll preparation, projections and presentations.

Manages other global budget processes, including corporate allocations, recharges between entities, R&D project investments, global insurance and Supply Chain costs (freight, warehouse and other costs). Leads, consolidates, analyzes and reviews the company's global capital expenditure (Capex) budget and understands its financial impact and follows the execution.

This role supports the group reporting; it analyzes the consolidated reports and explains them to the business partners. This gives the role a high-level understanding of the company’s strategy and of how the different businesses relate to each other, so it can feed the analysis from each perspective.

Job Status:

• Full-Time / Yuma, AZ
• Exempt
• Reports to:
  
  Global FP&A Director

Role Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary finance partner to functional leaders (HR, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and others), maintaining ongoing communication and dialogue with key stakeholders.
• Review financial results and key numbers with each functional leader on a regular cadence, ensuring accountability for their budget.
• Prepare and review payroll analysis, including headcount, compensation costs and variances against budget.
• Lead the review of monthly results for each functional area, reconciling the numbers and ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with US and local regulatory requirements.
• Follow up on variances vs budget, investigate root causes with the areas, and tell the story behind the numbers.
• Evaluate and model changes proposed by the functional areas, such as changing HR suppliers, changes in organizational structures, and new project analyses, including cost, savings and payback.
• Generate metrics that measure expenses, efficiency and productivity for each functional area.
• Lead the annual budget process with functional leaders, helping them project their numbers bottom-up and ensuring accountability to the budget.
• Work with HR to build the global payroll projections, including headcount, salary increases, benefits, payroll taxes.
• Manage global budget processes, including corporate allocations, recharges between entities, global insurance costs, patents and trademarks etc
• Manage the budget and monthly tracking of R&D project investments, partnering with R&D and marketing leadership to evaluate and prioritize projects.
• Act as a key user and owner of the budgeting and R&D investment systems, supporting data integrity, user training and system improvements.
• Responsible of work with the Supply chain team in the cost projects for Freights to customers, warehouse and other cost of sales.
• Drive improvements in reporting accuracy, timeliness and insightfulness, and assist with system transformation and process improvement projects sponsored by the Chief Financial Officer.
• Lead, consolidate, analyze and review the global budget process for the Full Capex for the company, including the understanding of the…