FP&A Manager

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores • Oklahoma City, OK

12h • Onsite

About The Position

Welcome to Love's! Our FP&A team is seeking an FP&A Manager who provides financial leadership and strategic business partnership for a defined business area or operational domain, overseeing both the quality of financial analysis and the performance and development of a team of analysts. This role is accountable for delivering actionable financial insights that support operational decision-making, improve business performance, and drive achievement of organizational objectives.
Serving as the primary finance partner to business leaders, the FP&A Manager translates operational priorities into financial strategies and analytical initiatives, ensuring plans, forecasts, analyses, and recommendations align with organizational goals. The role combines people leadership, financial expertise, and analytical oversight to guide decision-making, optimize resource allocation, and enhance operational effectiveness across the supported domain.
The FP&A Manager fosters a culture of continuous improvement by establishing best practices, strengthening analytical capabilities, and leveraging data, automation, AI-enabled tools, and advanced technologies to improve productivity, increase efficiency, enhance forecasting accuracy, and accelerate insight generation. Through strong financial stewardship and cross-functional collaboration, this role drives meaningful business impact and supports informed, timely, and strategic decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, accounting, business analytics, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, or related financial disciplines preferred.
• Experience supporting operational leaders, evaluating business performance, and delivering data-driven financial insights within a complex business environment preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing professional teams while managing complex, cross-functional initiatives involving financial analysis, performance management, strategic planning, resource allocation, or business decision support preferred.
• Experience overseeing budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, business case development, and performance measurement processes that support operational and strategic decision-making preferred.
• Experience utilizing financial systems, business intelligence platforms, reporting tools, data analytics, AI-enabled technologies, automation solutions, and advanced Microsoft Office applications to improve productivity, forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and organizational decision-making preferred.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CPA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credentials preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts, fostering accountability, engagement, and professional growth.
• Manage team performance, including hiring, coaching, performance evaluations, and career development planning.
• Build team capability through coaching, succession planning, knowledge sharing, and development of future leaders.
• Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and balance workload across multiple initiatives and business needs.
• Oversee the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of financial and operational analyses, reporting, and recommendations.
• Direct the development and delivery of complex, high-impact analyses that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Maintain hands-on involvement in key analytical initiatives, providing subject matter expertise and guidance on complex business challenges.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve analytical standards, methodologies, reporting processes, and governance practices to enhance quality and efficiency.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities for the assigned business domain.
• Evaluate financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and key performance indicators, identifying risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases to support operational and strategic decisions.
• Partner with business and operational leaders to understand objectives, identify opportunities, and align financial insights with business priorities.
• Serve as the primary finance partner to business leaders by providing financial guidance, performance insights, and strategic recommendations.
• Translate data, financial results, and analytical findings into actionable recommendations that drive business performance and informed decision-making.
• Exercise decision-making authority for financial recommendations, analytical priorities, and resource allocation decisions within the assigned business domain, escalating enterprise-wide strategic, policy, capital allocation, or material risk matters as appropriate.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment evaluation, and performance management activities.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization, revenue enhancement, operational efficiency, and process improvement.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled technologies, automation solutions, and advanced analytics to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, productivity, and decision-making effectiveness.
• Communicate financial and operational insights effectively to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Supports broader team and enterprise goals by proactively contributing to initiatives outside of core responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

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