FP&A Senior Manager

Cherry Bekaert • Rockville, MD

8d • $140,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Cherry Bekaert is a large accounting and consulting firm recognized as a Great Place to Work, offering advisory, assurance, and tax services. They are seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to lead financial planning, forecasting, and analytics for assigned service lines. This role involves partnering with service line leadership to provide financial insights, manage the planning cycle, and drive accountability. The position requires an independent operator capable of influencing decisions and is ideal for someone with experience building FP&A infrastructure in a scaling or transforming organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of meaningful professional services experience (accounting firm, consulting, or advisory).
• FP&A experience demonstrating ownership of planning cycles, not just reporting or model maintenance.
• Accounting exposure or close partnership with the accounting function.
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite, especially Excel.
• Power BI knowledge.
• Workday knowledge (financial reporting, HCM, time tracking modules).
• Hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, including building and maintaining driver-based planning models.
• Professional services industry experience (accounting firm, consulting, or advisory), understanding billable vs. non-billable economics, utilization, and realization.
• Familiarity with accounting/close processes, including GAAP, accruals, WIP, AR reserves, and month-end close.
• Eligibility to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience building FP&A infrastructure in a scaling or transforming organization strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new analytical frameworks for capacity planning, leverage modeling, revenue and pipeline analytics.
• Serve as the primary financial business partner to assigned service line leadership, translating financial data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Collaborate with service line leaders to align on financial goals, connect performance to operational drivers, and support strategic planning.
• Conduct profitability analysis, evaluating service line margins, pricing, and cost structures, and presenting findings with recommended actions.
• Own the budget, forecast, and long-range planning cycle for assigned service lines, maintaining a rolling forecast model and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Analyze historical financials and monitor service line KPIs, providing variance explanations with a clear business narrative.
• Manage the month-end and quarterly close reporting cycle, standardizing reports and dashboards using Power BI and Adaptive Planning.
• Coordinate with accounting on WIP and AR reserve processes, ensuring accuracy of revenue recognition inputs.
• Monitor, track, and analyze service line costs, identifying variances and presenting findings with context to leadership.
• Develop and maintain financial models for forecasting, supporting ad hoc analysis and special projects.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Workday Adaptive Planning models, driving adoption of standardized reporting infrastructure.
• Lead quality and process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiencies and forecast accuracy.
• Mentor and develop FP&A analysts, establishing best practices and improving team capabilities.
• Create and implement FP&A policies and procedures to ensure consistency and quality standards.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages based on performance
• Annual bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision care
• Disability and life insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Retirement plans
• Paid Care Leave
• Other programs dedicated to enhancing personal and work life and providing financial protection

What This Job Offers

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