Corporate FP&A Manager

Elior North America•Houston, MN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail‑oriented Corporate FP&A Manager (Individual Contributor) to join Elior North America’s Corporate Finance team. This role supports all ENA segments and corporate functions through financial planning, forecasting, advanced Excel-driven analysis, and high-volume data management. This position is critical in producing accurate, timely insights and ad hoc reporting that drive strategic decisions across the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
6+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience.
Expert-level Excel skills (tested during interview) including formulas, lookups, data transformation, pivot tables, linking files, building templates, and troubleshooting.
Proven ability to manage and analyze large data sets while maintaining extreme attention to detail.
Strong ability to independently structure problems, think critically, and create efficient analytical solutions.
Ability to produce ad hoc reporting quickly and accurately without relying on automated systems.
Strong communication skills—capable of “telling the story” behind the numbers for senior leadership.
Experience with ERP systems, master data structures, charts of accounts, and financial reporting tools.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, high‑urgency environment, especially during weeks 1–2 of close.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to work within a flat, small, highly hands-on team.

Nice To Haves

Experience in contract services, hospitality, foodservice, or other multi‑segment industries.
Experience with Planful, BI360, SAP/BFS, Smartsheet, or Anaplan.
Experience working with canned dashboards and supplementing them with manual analysis.
Prior experience creating Excel-based reporting templates or automation.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic partner to corporate departments, providing financial insights and recommendations.
Lead budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes across ENA corporate functions.
Consolidate and analyze P&L results, explaining trends, variances, and drivers to segment and corporate leadership.
Act as a gatekeeper of financial accuracy during close, ensuring integrity across P&L, balance sheet, and segment-level reporting.
Support month-end through detailed review of trial balances, account mapping, reconciliations, and system data validation.
Manage and manipulate extremely large data sets (often 80k+ rows), ensuring proper mapping across group, segment, and corporate structures.
Create, enhance, and maintain ad hoc financial reports and dashboards to support leadership requests and emerging business needs.
Produce manual and automated Excel templates, models, and files used across FP&A and segment finance teams.
Build reporting solutions independently using advanced Excel: XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, PivotTables, macros, named ranges, structured references, and cell linking across tabs/files.
Troubleshoot large variances and investigate anomalies using a structured, analytical approach.
Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to solve complex issues and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Support BI reporting efforts using Power BI and BI360; interpret and refine canned reports and create supplemental analysis as needed.
Contribute to broader corporate finance projects, including Smartsheet workstreams, master data management, KPIs, Planful budgeting cycles, and miscellaneous modeling initiatives.