Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Leading Shipping Company

Position Summary: This position is responsible for overall revenue analysis, reporting and forecasting/budgeting. Accountability to produce timely and accurate revenue reporting to all key stakeholders that will assist in the realization of revenue, improve timeliness of decision making and help drive improved financial performance.

Responsibilities:  

• Manage detailed annual revenue budget and monthly forecasts at the customer and product level

o Rates and volumes by customer, by region

o Reporting and comparative analysis at the detailed and summary levels  

• Work with accounting team to understand close process, timing and accrual estimates and apply knowledge to weekly P-L reporting and monthly reforecast  

• Develop working relationship with Commercial and Pricing teams in order to create reliable and relevant drivers for accurate forecasting; continue to adjust drivers as necessary

o Work with Commercial and Pricing teams on all acquisition and new pricing deals to best understand economic impact; relate actual performance to expected trends and adjust forecasts accordingly  

• Manage weekly revenue estimates by segment, at the customer and product level

o Compare weekly revenue trends (rate/volume) to prior week’s

o Roll-up weekly revenue estimates to a monthly view; compare to Budget, prior month and Reforecast  

• Prepare monthly revenue analyses by segment for Business Review package, comparing to Budget and prior month:

o By Customer and Product

o Splitting out by Company initiative (i.e. expansion; market share; etc.)  

• Manage customer profitability analysis on monthly basis; create ability to slice profitability data by user, by region and segment

• Build understanding of various billing formulas and report on impact of changing from one to another as customer behavior changes

• Build multiple year revenue forecast models based on industry and customer specific data

• Produce contractual cash flows on a quarterly basis for Company Report to lender group

• Coordinate with Operations’ analysis team within FP&A to create a database for all usage and billing information for all parties to utilize

• Work with Consolidation and Reporting team within FP&A to provide timely and concise forecast materials for consolidation

• Manage team of people providing oversight, guidance and development, establishing priorities, balancing workload, conducting performance management, etc

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Business, Accounting or Finance required. A minimum of five years of revenue modeling, revenue/expense data analysis and/or related business experience required

• Must have previous experience in managing staff  

• Must have proven competence in detailed financial modeling capabilities, expertise in Excel modeling and data mining functions and strong PowerPoint skills. Strong Access database skills and experience with Oracle would be a plus

$90K- $105K plus Bonus

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