Finance Manager, FP&A

Zep Inc.•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Finance Manager, FP&A is the dedicated finance partner to Zep's Professional business. This hands-on individual contributor owns the Professional budget, rolling forecasts, and monthly performance reporting, translating financial results into clear, actionable insight for Finance and Professional leadership. The role builds models, performs analysis, and presents the story behind the numbers while partnering with commercial and operations leaders. The position leads planning and forecasting, analyzes Professional business performance, supports business decisions through financial evaluation, and improves FP&A processes and reporting systems. Success includes delivering trusted budgets and forecasts on time, clearly explaining margin and cost drivers, becoming a regular finance input to pricing, customer, and cost decisions, and streamlining or automating at least one FP&A process in the first year.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
At least 5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or business unit finance.
Hands-on ownership of budgeting and forecasting cycles, including building models from scratch.
Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and scenario modeling.
Experience with an ERP such as SAP, Oracle, or JD Edwards and a planning or BI tool such as Adaptive, Anaplan, Power BI, or Tableau.
Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow relationships.
Ability to build accurate, auditable models and identify insights in data.
Business acumen, including understanding how customers, pricing, raw material costs, and plant performance affect the P&L.
Ability to explain complex results clearly in writing and to senior leaders.
Ability to influence without authority, challenge assumptions, and drive accountability with business partners.
Ability to manage multiple deadlines through budget and close cycles with minimal supervision.
Focus on automating, simplifying, and speeding up reporting.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting an industrial, CPG, specialty chemicals, or other manufacturing business.
Background in gross margin analysis, including price/volume/mix, standard costing, and manufacturing variances.
Exposure to key account or channel profitability analysis.
MBA, CPA, or CFA, or progress toward one.
Experience at a private equity-backed company.

Responsibilities

Lead the Professional annual budget by building templates and models, coordinating inputs from commercial and operations leaders, and incorporating the plan into company consolidation.
Own the Professional rolling forecast for revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and EBITDA.
Maintain driver-based models that link volume, price, mix, and cost assumptions to financial outcomes.
Support the long-range plan and scenario analysis for strategic initiatives.
Prepare monthly management reporting packages, including actual-versus-budget-versus-forecast variance analysis.
Own the Professional P&L and explain results, including gross margin by customer, channel, and product line, as well as SG&A and working capital trends.
Build and maintain KPI dashboards for leadership and business partners.
Contribute to board and executive presentation materials.
Partner with Professional leaders across sales, operations, and supply chain to help manage to budget.
Evaluate business cases, key account deals, capital requests, and pricing or cost-saving initiatives using ROI and payback analysis.
Respond to ad hoc analytical requests from the VP of Finance and executive team.
Work with Pricing & Master Data teams to develop optimal pricing and profit realization.
Improve FP&A processes, templates, and timelines to shorten cycle times and reduce manual work.
Partner with Accounting on accruals, allocations, and close timing to maintain accurate and consistent reporting.
Help define and maintain data sources and reporting tools used for planning.