FP&A Senior Manager

Cherry Bekaert is ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country, delivering innovative advisory, assurance, and tax services. They are seeking a Senior FP&A Manager responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and analytics, partnering with service line leadership to provide financial insights and drive accountability to financial goals.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement net-new analytical frameworks for the service line — capacity planning, leverage modeling, revenue and pipeline analytics, and similar forward-looking tools — in a function that is actively transitioning from reporting-centric to analytics-driven; prior experience building FP&A infrastructure in a scaling or transforming organization strongly preferred
• Serve as primary financial business partner to assigned service line leadership; translate financial data into actionable insight and decision-relevant recommendations
• Collaborate with service line leaders to align on financial goals, connect performance to operational drivers, and support long-term strategic planning, including capacity planning
• Profitability analysis — evaluate service line margins, pricing, and cost structure; present findings with conclusions and recommended actions to leadership
• Own the full budget, forecast, and long-range planning cycle for assigned service line; maintain a rolling forecast model and proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Analyze historical financials and monitor service line KPIs; deliver variance explanations with clear business narrative — not just numbers, but the story behind them
• Own month-end and quarterly close reporting cycle; lead standardization of reports and dashboards using Power BI and Adaptive to deliver meaningful, decision-ready data
• Manage WIP and AR reserve process in coordination with accounting; ensure accuracy of revenue recognition inputs and alignment with close calendar
• Monitor, track, and analyze costs across assigned service line; identify variances and surface findings with context to leadership
• Develop and maintain financial models to forecast current and future performance; support ad hoc analysis and special projects as needed
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Workday Adaptive Planning models; drive adoption of standardized, scalable reporting infrastructure
• Lead quality and process improvement initiatives; identify and implement efficiencies that reduce manual effort or improve forecast accuracy
• Mentor and develop FP&A analysts; establish best practices and elevate team capability across planning, analysis, and communication
• Create and implement FP&A policies and procedures; drive consistency and quality standards across the team