Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Point B•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Point B is a business innovation firm that takes the guesswork out of transformation.  We engineer your future by combining advanced technologies and industry expertise to help you reimagine your business and its processes to get ahead and stay ahead.  We're consulting done different. While others might say it, we live it—your success is our success. We start with the challenges you face, then partner to drive to what’s right for your business, your people, and your future. The proof is in our world-class NPS score that consistently triples our competitors. We know how to listen carefully, respond with agility, and accelerate time to value. When you partner with Point B, you’ll experience the speed and confidence needed to spot critical pivots, navigate complexity with ease, and tailor technology to fit your needs. We're ready to start generating your future today. The Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is a critical position where you will help lead budgeting, forecasting, and analysis at the corporate level. The position will report to the Controller. FP&A at Point B is much more than dollars and analytics, it is about building relationships across the organization to increase trust, partnership, and create one shared source of truth. We seek to create an environment of collaboration, curiosity, and shared vision in order to achieve great outcomes. It is about helping the organization accurately reflect performance and to see around the corner and understand how performance today impacts us over the next 3-12 months and highlights the areas of focus which have the greatest impact. Our team works together to find and implement solutions in an environment that often includes ambiguity and change. We make it happen and along the way, we grow ourselves and our company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or other relevant field
5+ years related experience
2+ years of industry experience, professional services experience highly desirable
Proven technical aptitude and well-versed in a variety of financial systems (Salesforce desirable)
Strong performer with demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and stay flexible through growth and change
Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Capable of communicating complex financial information in an easy-to-understand format. Able to interact comfortably and drive alignment with the executive leadership team
Ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization and a highly collaborative environment with a high growth, can-get-done mentality. This role is for doers; be able to get into the details and get the job done while at the same time being able to see the forest for the trees
Ability to manage existing business processes, while introducing process improvements to increase organizational efficiencies and effectiveness
Hold the highest standards for accuracy and ethics but also recognize how to balance accuracy and urgency
Ability to operate successfully within a ‘virtual’ company
Ability to work from home office
Travel to support industries, geographic markets, networking, and general business management, as needed

Nice To Haves

CPA and MBA or equivalent preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborate on the company's annual financial planning process, and monthly and quarterly forecasting with business partners to achieve business and company goals.
Perform sensitivity analysis to understand potential outcomes and highlight major assumptions
Collaborate with senior leadership to maintain and create metrics to assess the company’s fiscal performance and health
Prepare monthly and quarterly budgets and forecasts to actuals. Measure and highlight variances from the forecast and provide deep insights with recommendations
Serve as the integration point between the consulting org and talent acquisition/ resource management to ensure the right headcount each month and quarter
Drive alignment on supply priorities across services & industries
Partner with resource management and the consulting leaders to establish role-based utilization targets as part of annual planning
Grow analysis capabilities with a focus on predictive metrics and data to monitor health across the company
Provide critical insights and data analysis to business partners to improve the probability of achieving both short-term and longer-term financial outcomes
Partner with leadership on long-term planning and cost management in alignment with Point B’s strategic plan
Partner with Accounting team in planning and analysis, seeking out opportunities to increase visibility and understanding across teams of critical metrics and performance impacts
Identify opportunities to increase efficiency, profitability, or company value
Provide direct support and leadership for specific financial requests
Participate in a wide variety of special projects
Understand system capabilities and availability technology; ensure that the company is utilizing existing and new technology to maximize value and efficiency of the FP&A team
Optimize standard rhythm of the business FP&A processes, create consistency across team, work with IT to automate reporting, where possible
Leveraging technology, identify and prioritize processes or areas that have opportunities for optimization and execute project plans to make these improvements