Senior Manager, Global FP&A, Planning Operations

Role Overview

• Lead and coordinate global forecasting, budgeting, and planning operating cadence across regions and functions
• Drive process discipline, accountability, and calendar management for monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles
• Partner proactively with operations and commercial leadership to improve planning effectiveness, forecasting accuracy, productivity initiatives, and business performance
• Influence operational and commercial decision-making through strong business partnership, financial insight, and planning coordination
• Improve management reporting workflows, planning coordination, and cross-functional communication routines
• Partner with Regional Finance Leaders to improve forecast quality, transparency, assumptions management, and operational alignment
• Support the evolution of scalable planning processes, management reporting standards, and decision-support capabilities
• Work closely with the Corporate Controller and shared services organization to improve coordination between accounting, reporting, and FP&A processes
• Collaborate with IT and finance leadership to support future-state planning systems, BI tools, ERP enhancements, and data/process requirements
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve reporting efficiency, and eliminate low-value activities
• Help establish clearer ownership, governance, and operating rhythm across finance processes
• Support development of finance talent, analyst capabilities, and sustainable workload management within the FP&A organization
• Operate as a key finance leader helping scale the organization while balancing structure, agility, accountability, and business partnership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required
• MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced finance/accounting credentials preferred
• 8–12+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, planning, or operational finance experience
• Prior manufacturing, consumer products, food & beverage, packaging, or complex operational industry experience strongly preferred
• Experience operating within private equity-owned, high-growth, or transformation-oriented environments preferred
• Demonstrated experience leading planning processes, forecasting cycles, management reporting, operational finance activities, or finance process improvements
• Experience partnering with operations, commercial leadership, accounting, IT, and executive leadership teams
• Exposure to ERP systems, planning tools, BI/reporting platforms, and data/process improvement initiatives
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing capabilities
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity while helping create structure and scalable operating discipline

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Hybrid working model with expected in-office collaboration
• Ability to travel periodically, approximately 10–15%, depending on business and transformation priorities