FP&A Specialist

Description

Mission:
Own and continuously improve the company’s forecast accuracy, financial outlook, and decision support capability, with clear accountability for assumptions, timelines, and outcomes. Leverage AI, automation, and advanced analytics to deliver faster, more accurate, and forward looking insights. Act as a trusted Finance business partner to Leadership, Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Sourcing by leading financial modeling, deal evaluation, pricing support, investment analysis, and strategic initiatives. Provide decision ready analysis that drives performance, supports profitable growth, protects cash and covenant compliance, and enables effective capital allocation.

Outcomes:

• Forecast & Budget Accuracy: Deliver accurate, credible forecasts and budgets that support informed business and financial decisions.
• Decision-Ready Financial Analysis: Provide timely, accurate financial analysis and insights that enable leadership to make informed decisions.
• Sales Deal Modeling & Profitable Growth: Model sales opportunities and deals to assess financial impact, profitability, and alignment with profitable growth objectives.
• Variance & Performance Analysis: Deliver high-quality variance and performance analysis, clearly identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Post-Deal Performance & Accountability: Establish visibility into post-deal performance and ensure financial outcomes are tracked against expectations and commitments.
• AI-Enabled Efficiency & Automation: Identify and implement AI, automation, and technology-enabled improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Scalable Planning, Data Integrity & Governance: Build scalable planning processes while maintaining data integrity, consistency, and strong financial governance.
• Strategic Initiatives, M&A & Financing: Provide financial analysis and support for strategic initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, and financing activities, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

Role Competencies:

• Strategic financial leadership: Moves FP&A beyond reporting to shape decisions and outcomes. Translates strategy into financial models, scenarios, and recommendations that clarify risks and value creation paths.
• Forecasting, cash, and value discipline: Demonstrates ownership of forecasts, assumptions, and outcomes. Drives rigor in revenue, margin, cash, and working capital forecasting.
• Financial modeling and scenario thinking: Builds transparent, scalable models to support forecasting, pricing, capex, headcount, M&A, deal evaluation, and strategic initiatives.
• Sales and commercial partnership: Partners effectively with Sales throughout the customer lifecycle, from opportunity evaluation and pricing decisions to launch and post launch performance review.
-Providing objective financial guidance while balancing growth, profitability, cash flow,
investment requirements, and risk.
-Supporting negotiations and deal structuring while maintaining financial discipline and strong
business judgment.

• Pricing and profitability expertise: Understands pricing levers, cost drivers, contribution margin, breakeven, customer profitability, and deal structure.
• Operational finance expertise: Understands cost structures, productivity levers, margin risks, and opportunities at the plant, product, customer, and regional level.
• AI enabled financial analytics: Leverages AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve forecast accuracy, surface insights, reduce manual work, and scale FP&A capability.
• Business partnership and influence: Works cross functionally with Sales, Operations, Engineering, Sourcing, Accounting, IT, and leadership to drive performance and improve decision quality.
• Systems, data, and controls mindset: Works effectively across ERP, BI, and planning tools while ensuring data integrity, repeatability, governance, and auditability.
• Executive communication: Communicates complex analysis clearly and concisely, with decision ready narratives for senior leadership and board level audiences when required.
• Cross border acumen: Understands financial, legal, and business nuances across Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Fortune 500 pedigree. Startup agility. No compromise. We blend a century of manufacturing excellence with the speed and grit to take on today's manufacturing and industry challenges. Our mission? To be the catalyst of success for a select group of like-minded customers who are leading the North American manufacturing and industrial renaissance. Our vision? To be the world’s most trusted company.