Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Reporting to Fortive's FP&A Senior Director, the FP&A Senior Manager supports the enterprise-wide FP&A function, serves as a finance partner to corporate functional leaders, and operates the planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting cadence for corporate finance, translating data into clear insights and recommendations. The role calls for working knowledge of the accounting and FP&A toolset, strong business acumen and judgment, and the ability to work across operating companies and corporate functions in a highly matrixed environment.
The successful candidate is a detail-oriented, hands-on professional who runs the recurring work cadence, maintains accurate models and reporting, manages multiple concurrent projects, and leads through influence without direct authority. As a Corporate Finance team member, they may take on expanded assignments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enterprise planning and performance management
- Support the annual budget and periodic forecast processes.
- Maintain the FTV model, reconciling Opco operating-plan risks with externally stated shareholder commitments.
- Run the FP&A operating rhythm: monthly and quarterly close, performance reviews, forecast updates, and executive reporting.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly variance and bridge analysis (actuals versus budget and forecast) and track performance against targets, surfacing key drivers, risks, and opportunities for timely action.
- Executive decision support and business analysis
- Develop financial modeling and scenario analysis to support business decisions, resource and capital allocation, budgeting, forecasting, cost-structure management, and margin drivers.
- Prepare management reporting and presentations for the Senior Director, senior finance leaders and the C Suite.
- Cross-functional partnership
- Serve as a finance business partner to operate, functional, and corporate teams, managing the Corporate G&A budget, improving forecast accuracy, and supporting spend accountability.
- Provide ad hoc analysis and decision support for Corporate Finance, SEC Reporting, Investor Relations, and Corporate Development.
- Support M&A, divestiture, integration, and transformation activities as needed. Process, systems, and continuous improvement
- Lead concurrent finance projects and process initiatives from planning through delivery, managing scope, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables.
- Improve finance processes, planning standards, reporting, and analytical capabilities, including change management and productivity enhancements.
- Maintain the corporate planning and reporting platform (including OneStream) and its models, hierarchies, templates, and reporting package, ensuring data integrity across source systems and supporting system and data quality improvements.
- Apply FBS, Lean, and problem-solving tools to simplify work, improve cycle times, and increase FP&A impact.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required; MBA and/or CPA preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally in a global, multi-company environment.
- Strong financial acumen and modeling, forecasting, analysis, and reporting skills, with critical thinking and the ability to connect operational drivers to financial outcomes.
- Hands-on experience with financial models, reporting packages, and consolidation or planning systems; working knowledge of ERP, with OneStream preferred.
- Advanced Excel and BI/visualization tools (Power BI or Tableau); SQL or Python a plus.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), able to build trust with diverse stakeholders and translate complex financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
Customer-focused and enterprise-minded, comfortable in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities, and committed to continuous learning and a high bar for execution.
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