Finance Business Partner

MPW • Union Township, OH

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About The Position

The Finance Business Partner serves as the primary financial advisor to an assigned division or business unit. The role leads planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and decision support, connecting financial results to operational activity and providing actionable insights to improve profitability, working capital, productivity, and overall business performance. The focus is forward-looking FP&A and operational finance.

The position partners with operational leadership and corporate functions to support business decisions, explain financial performance, improve projections and reporting, and evaluate operational and financial initiatives. It may also lead, coach, and develop assigned finance or analyst resources, if applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, corporate finance, business analysis, or a related area.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, working capital, profitability, and key operational business drivers.
• Demonstrated experience building financial models, forecasts, dashboards, reporting packages, and business-performance analyses.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
• Experience with ERP, business intelligence, financial reporting, budgeting, or FP&A systems.
• Strong business partnership skills, including the ability to influence operational leaders, challenge assumptions, and translate financial information into practical recommendations.
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling capability, with a strong understanding of business drivers, profitability, forecasting, and working capital.
• Clear, credible communication and presentation skills for finance and non-finance audiences, including senior operational leadership.
• Continuous-improvement mindset, ownership, judgment, accountability, and ability to manage priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or CPA.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and leadership presentations.
• Serve as the primary finance partner to assigned operational leaders, providing financial insight, challenge, and decision support.
• Lead segment-level budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning, including assumptions, financial schedules, and driver-based models tied to operational activity.
• Analyze forecast accuracy, business trends, risks, and opportunities, and work with leaders to improve the reliability of financial projections.
• Lead or support business performance reviews, explaining key drivers of revenue, profitability, expenses, cash flow, and other relevant metrics.
• Identify and recommend actions to improve profitability, pricing, productivity, labor efficiency, equipment utilization, cost structure, and operational performance.
• Prepare scenario, sensitivity, and what-if analyses for customer opportunities, pricing decisions, investments, operational initiatives, risks, and other business decisions.
• Develop and monitor KPIs, dashboards, reporting packages, and financial narratives that connect financial results to operating activity.
• Perform customer and contract profitability, branch, service-line, working-capital, and other ad hoc financial analyses to support business priorities and executive decisions.
• Monitor accounts receivable, billing, collections, and unbilled revenue, and support evaluation of capital spending, equipment utilization, fleet-related costs, and return on investment, as applicable.
• Partner with Corporate Accounting to understand significant financial results, provide operational context, and communicate accounting impacts while maintaining separation from transactional accounting and close ownership.
• Use and improve FP&A tools, reporting models, dashboards, planning templates, and data processes in partnership with the Director of FP&A, Corporate Accounting, IT, and Operations.
• Lead, coach, and develop assigned finance or analyst resources, if applicable.
• Support special projects and other financial analysis as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with opportunities for career growth and advancement.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off and floating holidays.
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
• Employee referral bonus program.
• Wellness benefits.
• Professional development, training, and leadership growth opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Stable company with long-term career opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior