Manager of Global Strategic Finance

MRI • Cleveland, OH

4d

About The Position

The Manager, Global Strategic Finance drives execution of global financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes that support organizational decision-making. The role focuses on operationalizing the global planning and forecasting cycle, ensuring consolidation accuracy, producing internal reporting, and supporting financial governance. The manager partners with business leaders across regions and functions to collect planning data, validate assumptions, and provide financial visibility for operational and strategic decisions.

Reporting to the Director of Global Strategic Finance, this role works cross-functionally with Finance Operations, Accounting, regional finance teams, and business unit leadership. It is responsible for the accuracy, timeliness, and consistency of financial planning across a complex, multi-region organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and business partnering.
• Experience in FP&A or corporate finance, such as a strategic finance, financial planning, or corporate finance function.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, including the ability to perform variance analysis and develop scenarios.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to manage competing deadlines, and commitment to accuracy in financial reporting.
• Ability to work effectively with business leaders, regional finance teams, and cross-functional stakeholders; build relationships and manage expectations.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain financial data and insights to finance and non-finance audiences and present findings to leadership.
• Problem-solving ability, including identifying issues, investigating root causes, and recommending solutions; comfort with ambiguity and iteration.
• Comfort using LLM tools and AI-assisted applications to improve forecasting accuracy, automate manual processes, and enhance data quality.
• Willingness to learn new EPM planning systems.

Nice To Haves

• Global or multi-entity finance experience, including working across regions, entities, and consolidation scenarios.
• Experience with EPM planning tools such as Adaptive Insights, Vena, Hyperion, or Anaplan.
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI-driven efficiency tools.
• Familiarity with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle.
• MBA or CPA.
• Experience in a PE-backed or growth-stage SaaS company.

Responsibilities

• Manage the mechanics of annual budgeting and quarterly rolling forecasts, including coordinating submissions across business units and geographies, validating data quality, challenging assumptions, consolidating forecasts, and managing the planning calendar and stakeholder communications.
• Support global consolidation and month-, quarter-, and year-end close processes, including P&L consolidation, intercompany eliminations, consolidation workpapers, variance analysis, and GAAP and management reporting views.
• Build and refresh internal financial dashboards and KPI trackers covering key financial KPIs, budget versus actual results, and performance trends; identify variance drivers and support management reporting and governance meetings.
• Track debt covenants, cash position, and liquidity metrics; prepare monthly covenant reports, flag potential covenant risks, and support liquidity forecasting and treasury coordination.
• Partner with regional finance leads and business unit managers to validate planning assumptions, explain forecasting methodology, improve forecast accuracy, resolve data discrepancies, and support root cause analysis.
• Build and maintain financial models for budget-versus-actual analysis, sensitivity analyses, and scenario planning; support development of base-case and alternative scenarios for governance discussions.
• Identify and implement process improvements, system enhancements, tools, and automation to streamline planning, improve data quality, reduce manual work, and improve accuracy, including leveraging AI and automation tools.
• Support financial controls and data governance by maintaining planning-system data integrity, assisting Accounting with reconciliations and validations, documenting assumptions and methodology, and partnering with Finance Operations on process controls.

What This Job Offers

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