Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

BusPatrol•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

BusPatrol is seeking a high-impact Senior Manager, Finance & FP&A to play a crucial role in shaping the company's planning, investment, and scaling strategies. This individual will act as a strategic finance partner to senior leadership, transforming complex operational data into actionable insights for improved accountability and profitable growth. The role involves owning key aspects of the company's planning, reporting, and performance management framework, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, executive reporting, KPI design, and decision-support models. Collaboration with various departments such as Finance, Operations, Sales, and Product is essential to link strategy with financial outcomes. This is a highly visible position with regular interaction with the C-suite, offering the chance to influence decisions on growth investments, cost structure, capacity planning, and capital allocation. The ideal candidate will possess strong strategic judgment, exceptional modeling skills, and an operational mindset for building scalable processes. This role presents significant long-term growth potential, with opportunities to expand into broader FP&A, strategic finance, corporate development, and finance transformation, along with increasing leadership responsibilities and impact on the company's direction.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field; MBA or advanced coursework is a plus.
7 to 10 + years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, financial operations, investment banking, private equity, or public accounting.
Demonstrated experience leading annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and executive performance reporting in a complex or high-growth environment.
Expert-level Excel and financial-modeling capabilities. You can build a model from a blank workbook, explain every key assumption, pressure-test the outputs, and make the analysis usable by decision-makers.
Strong command of integrated three-statement modeling, DCF and ROI analysis, scenario planning, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
Experience with ERP and CPM platforms such as NetSuite, Planful, Anaplan, or comparable systems; understanding of database structures and planning-model design is a plus.
Ability to translate strategy into financial drivers, financial results into operational insights, and analysis into decisive recommendations.
Executive presence and communication skills—clear, concise, confident, and comfortable presenting to C-suite.
Proven ability to influence, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and build strong partnerships across Finance and the broader business.
Experience with PowerPoint and data-visualization or storytelling tools such as ThinkCell, Lucidchart, Tableau, or comparable platforms.
A hands-on, high-accountability approach: you can operate at the 30,000-foot level while still diving into the details when the answer depends on it.
Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, strong organization, and a bias toward continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced coursework is a plus.
Understanding of database structures and planning-model design is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasting cycles, and long-range financial planning process from design through executive alignment.
Partner with functional and business-unit leaders to translate priorities and initiatives into headcount plans, operating budgets, investment cases, and measurable outcomes.
Build planning processes that improve forecast accuracy, increase accountability, and make tradeoffs visible across the organization.
Develop and maintain driver-based forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, headcount, working capital, cash flow, and capital needs.
Establish clear variance-analysis routines that connect financial performance to operational drivers and recommended actions.
Build and oversee sophisticated financial models that support scenario planning, pricing, capacity decisions, cost optimization, capital allocation, strategic partnerships, and support M&A evaluation.
Apply advanced Excel capabilities—including PivotTables, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH or XLOOKUP, arrays, Power Query, macros, as well as utilization of AI tools —to create scalable, high impact analyses. Will also leverage AI tools to scale routine processes and functions.
Develop DCF, ROI, payback, unit economics, and cash-flow analyses that help leaders evaluate risk, return, timing, and strategic fit.
Challenge assumptions constructively, identify the economic drivers behind performance, and turn analysis into a clear recommendation.
Design and continuous improvement of consolidated KPI dashboards and performance reporting across business units, aligned to company strategy.
Prepare and lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, including segment-level performance, margin trends, operating metrics, forecast changes, and management actions.
Synthesize large and complex financial, operational, and external datasets into concise narratives for senior leadership, the Board, and other stakeholders.
Create a consistent connection between company objectives, functional scorecards, resource allocation, and financial results.
Act as a trusted strategic finance partner to senior leaders and functional executives, helping them make better decisions faster.
Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives with financial implications, such as pricing strategy, cost transformation, business cases, organizational design, and investment prioritization.
Improve the quality, speed, and scalability of FP&A processes, reporting, systems, and controls as the company grows.
Partner with Accounting and System teams to improve data integrity, chart-of-accounts alignment, reporting structures, and adoption of planning tools.
Mentor and develop analysts and emerging finance talent, raising the standard for analytical rigor, communication, and business partnership.