Manager, FP&A
$120,000–$140,000 year
HybridChicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Build and maintain financial models that translate business drivers into actionable insights, present recommendations to the executive team, and own the annual budget and ongoing forecast process. Lead weekly WBR reporting and KPI tracking, manage the Accounting Manager, and partner with the Data team to automate manual reporting using BI tools, SQL, or scripting. Run Budget vs. Actual reviews, collaborate with Accounting on cash flow and balance sheet inputs, and serve as the key contact for parent company financial requests. This role requires 5–7 years of FP&A experience, proficiency in QuickBooks Online and Excel, and a hybrid schedule of three in-office days in Chicago, IL.
Required Qualifications
- 5–7 years of experience in FP&A with deep hands-on expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including complex formulas and financial modeling
- Experience automating reporting with BI tools, SQL, or scripting
- Tech-savvy and comfortable working directly within QuickBooks Online and the platforms that feed into it — Fishbowl, UKG, and Bill.com
- 3 in-office days each week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience managing or mentoring team members is a plus, but not required — what matters most is that you can actually do the work yourself, not just direct someone else doing it
- A true self-starter who sees a broken process and just fixes it, no permission slip required
- Equally energized by precise, on-time reporting and the bigger project of building better systems
- You're comfortable navigating some ambiguity and enjoy improving processes as you go
- Comfortable being the bridge between finance/accounting and data/engineering worlds
- Genuinely curious about the 'why' behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves
- A steady, supportive presence for a direct report navigating a lot of change
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