Sr. Manager FP&A

A. O. Smith•Milwaukee, WI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A leads enterprise financial planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard development, and executive decision support. The role improves visibility into business performance, risks, and opportunities while strengthening the quality, consistency, and efficiency of FP&A processes. It partners with the Vice President, Investor Relations & FP&A, senior leadership, business unit FP&A teams, accounting, investor relations, corporate functions, and other stakeholders to provide actionable insights and scalable tools for decision-making. The position also advances FP&A processes and systems, supports executive, Board, earnings, investor relations, and external communications, and builds FP&A capabilities through improved tools, practices, and financial storytelling. A.O. Smith is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has approximately 12,000 employees across operations in the United States, Canada, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field required.
8–12 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related analytical role.
Strong understanding of financial statements, working capital, capital expenditures, margin analysis, and key operating metrics.
Experience with planning, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, variance analysis, and executive financial reviews.
Strong experience developing reports, dashboards, scorecards, financial models, and executive presentations.
Demonstrated ability to improve FP&A processes, standardize reporting, automate recurring work, and strengthen financial discipline.
Proven ability to partner with business unit FP&A teams, corporate functions, and senior leadership.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
Experience with ERP, planning, reporting, or enterprise performance management systems required.
Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, and business judgment.
Excellent executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex information.
Process improvement mindset and ability to create scalable, repeatable solutions.
Strong reporting and dashboard orientation with attention to data quality and usability.
Collaborative leadership style and ability to influence across teams and senior levels.
High attention to detail, disciplined execution, and strong project management skills.
High integrity, professionalism, discretion, accountability, and commitment to developing talent.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, CFA, or relevant certification.
Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or public company experience.
Experience with SAP, OneStream, and Co-Pilot.

Responsibilities

Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and recurring financial reviews.
Partner with business unit FP&A teams to evaluate results, business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
Analyze consolidated performance against plan, forecast, prior year, and prior outlooks across key financial metrics.
Develop financial models, scenarios, sensitivities, and driver-based analyses to support decisions.
Improve forecast quality, planning discipline, and consistency of assumptions.
Develop management reporting packages, dashboards, scorecards, and executive summaries.
Translate financial and operational data into concise, decision-ready insights.
Standardize reporting definitions, improve data quality, and ensure consistent financial metrics.
Automate recurring reporting and improve the timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial information.
Lead continuous improvement across FP&A processes, templates, models, workflows, and reporting routines.
Recommend and implement scalable improvements to planning, forecasting, and management reporting.
Partner with finance, accounting, IT, and business teams to improve data governance, automation, system functionality, and controls.
Drive adoption of improved tools, dashboards, planning models, and standard work.
Serve as a trusted finance partner to business unit FP&A teams and corporate functions.
Support analysis of performance trends, variances, and actions to improve financial results.
Facilitate alignment, information sharing, and best practices across finance teams.
Provide decision support for strategic initiatives, productivity programs, capital investments, acquisitions, and other priorities.
Prepare executive financial analyses, presentations, and performance summaries.
Support Board, earnings, investor relations, and external communication materials.
Ensure executive and external-facing materials are accurate, concise, well-supported, and aligned with the company’s performance narrative.
Analyze peer, market, and business performance trends to support executive and investor-facing communications.
Support planning, reporting, and enterprise performance management system improvements.
Partner with system owners and users to enhance reporting, dashboards, workflows, and data integrity.
Define business requirements, test enhancements, document processes, and support adoption.
Review analysis, reporting, and presentations for accuracy, clarity, and executive readiness.
Build FP&A capabilities by sharing best practices, improving templates, and strengthening financial storytelling.
Promote curiosity, process discipline, teamwork, and continuous improvement, while modeling business partnership, attention to detail, and accountability.