Finance Manager

CIRANDA•Hudson, WI

About The Position

The Finance Manager provides financial leadership and decision support, partnering with functional leaders to drive future outcomes. This role transforms financial and operational data into clear insights, forecasts, and actionable recommendations to improve performance, agility, and risk management, in close partnership with the Senior Accountant to ensure recommendations are grounded in accurate close results.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.
5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, finance business partnering, and/or cost accounting, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and executive reporting.
5+ years of supervisory and team development experience.

Nice To Haves

Curiosity, Courage, Collaboration, Clarity, and Character (company core values)
Drives Results
Aligns Execution
Thinks Strategically
Models Accountability
Effectively Decisive
Agile & Resilient
Develops Talent
Instills Confidence
Cultivates Engagement
Continuous Process Improvement
Business Analysis
Integrating Perspectives

Responsibilities

Own budget and forecast assumptions, scenarios, and sensitivities, and explain key drivers.
Translate close results into an executive narrative (what/why/so-what/now-what) and deliver executive readouts and decision memos that present options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decisions needed.
Lead pricing and margin strategy, including exception decisioning and tradeoff analysis.
Establish decision guardrails and thresholds and evaluate risk tolerance.
Create decision-support reporting that delivers actionable performance insights and set benchmarks and promote best practices for reporting and performance measurement.
Present financial updates and analysis to senior leaders.
Run the forecast cadence and cross-functional planning calendar, including monthly and quarterly business review rhythms.
Support audit and compliance readiness by owning CPA relationship strategy, surfacing risks early, and managing escalations and decision points in partnership with the Senior Accountant.
Monitor balance sheet risk and working capital integrity with the Senior Accountant.
Facilitate the quarterly pricing team process for spot buy system pricing.
Align insights and recommendations to verified actuals through tight handoffs with the Senior Accountant.
Complete ad-hoc analysis and special projects as assigned.