Senior Manager Finance - Commercial Excellence & Strategy

Lumen Technologies • ,

1d • $132,232 - $193,940 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Manager, FP&A is a strategic finance leader responsible for driving financial planning, performance management, and decision support across Commercial Excellence, Special Projects, and the SEE organization. This role partners closely with senior business and finance leaders to deliver insights, manage risk and opportunities, and enable disciplined execution of enterprise initiatives. This role is critical to enabling disciplined financial management and insight-driven decision-making across Commercial Excellence and enterprise initiatives. The Senior Manager, FP&A ensures financial rigor while supporting growth, transformation, and strategic execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• 7 or more years of experience in finance, with strong background in planning, forecasting, and business case evaluation.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Essbase, and Power BI.
• Experience working with finance business partnership, strategic initiatives, or related roles.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and executive communication skills.
• Courageous leadership, someone who can bring honesty into conversations, set expectations, and hold others accountable in a healthy way.
• Deep curiosity with the persistence to keep going when direction is unclear or answers are vague.
• Strategic finance mindset that connects strategic initiatives to operational and business outcomes.
• Executive presence and the ability to engage and influence senior leaders during conversations.
• Strong relationship builder who can navigate a matrixed environment and get people aligned.
• Strong storyteller, able to translate financial data into something people can actually use to make decisions.
• Good judgment and prioritization, knowing where to focus time and when to push back.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to senior commercial and functional leaders.
• Support Special Projects and SEE initiatives through financial modeling, business cases, and scenario analysis.
• Translate complex financial data into clear, executive-ready insights to inform decision-making.
• Ensure alignment with corporate FP&A processes, timelines, and governance standards.
• Own and enhance FP&A processes, tools, and reporting to improve efficiency, accuracy, and insight.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for FP&A methodologies and best practices within AGT.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Finance, Commercial Excellence, and enterprise partners.
• Mentor and develop analysts, fostering strong analytical rigor and executive communication.
• Contribute to team engagement, capability building, and talent development within the Poland FP&A organization.

Benefits

• Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.
• Bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation)

What This Job Offers

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