Sr. Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Summary Description:

Manager/Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis is expected to develop and implement robust procedures that create accurate, timely, and relevant financial statements, metrics, forecasts, plans, and business case analyses. The ability to collaborate across all functional areas of the business constructively and efficiently within a fast-paced environment is critical. This position must regularly manage communications with various global stakeholders, including executive management.

The Manager/Senior Manager leads an FP&A team of 8 and is also responsible for providing FP&A support to the operating companies supported by DBS. This position has significant interaction with leadership and therefore requires excellent communication skills and strong executive presence.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide financial and strategic support to CFO including preparing board presentations, financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, industry/peer group benchmark comparisons, new business opportunities, acquisition impact analysis and other projects requested by senior management
• Organize and document work instructions for monthly and quarterly review package to CFO including budget to actual analytics, investments & overheads review, key financial metrics, and performance indicators
• Implement continuous improvements to reduce finance business process cycle times, improve financial forecast quality, enable team members to spend more time on higher value tasks and enhance information provided to leadership for business decisions
• Develop new reporting or analyses as needed to provide timely insightful information to executive leadership for better decision-making
• Assist in designing, proposing, and implementing new allocation methodologies for DBS cost of service delivery to increase transparency of calculations and reduce the inherent complexity associated with a volumes-based charging model
• Evaluate strategies and goals of DBS and recommend actions to reduce gross spend and/or better leverage existing systems
• Detail-review underlying workpapers for completeness and accuracy of financial information
• Detail-review DBS balance sheet reconciliations to assess appropriateness of aged items
• Support extensive information requests and ad-hoc projects from the DBS CFO, VP DBS, Dover Corporate, operating company CFOs, and other key stakeholders
• Provide financial partnership to other DBS functions requiring finance support (e.g. HR)
• Assist in reviewing contractual fee structures to propose cost reduction actions (e.g. clean up customer records to reduce fees with supplier)
• Partner with operating companies to validate DBS savings delivery (e.g. exit operating company level contracts if moving to consolidated DBS contracts)
• Drive reduction in high-cost labor hours between DBS and the operating companies through simplification and automation efforts that allow more focus on value-add business activities for the company
• Redesign and automate repeatable processes to accelerate financial discipline and benefits
• Lead a team of 8 FP&A professionals, providing coaching and technical support as well as thought leadership for DBS FP&A
• Work proactively with operating companies to expand the FP&A support services offered by DBS
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management or related field preferred
• 12+ years relevant experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, preferably at a large multi-national organization
• Energetic, self-starter and strong focus on continuous improvement initiatives
• Ability to multi-task and demonstrate strong project management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing and improving environment
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple teams/workstreams, including offshore resources
• Able to develop outstanding business relationships and provide functional leadership
• Disciplined work ethic, detail oriented and well organized
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Experience managing data in large ERP systems (Oracle preferred) and large consolidation systems (OneStream preferred)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong executive presence and ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to influence an organization into best practices through change management
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Self-directed, positive and ethical role model who is able to work with minimal supervision
• High level of customer focus and ability to maintain a positive attitude at all times
• Ability to solve practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to maintain a professional demeanor at all times with suppliers, internal customers and coworkers; fully observe Dover’s Code of Ethical Conduct, Employee Handbook “Personal Conduct of Employees” policies and ISO Quality System Standards
  
  

Company Overview

Dover Business Services empowers Operating Company growth by providing best-in-class operations expertise and services to increase capacity, improve controls and reduce operating costs. Throughout its global service centers, DBS leverages technologies managed by process experts to achieve standardization, simplification and efficiency; and does what is necessary to keep the business running smoothly so the core businesses can focus on what is possible and achieve organic growth and margin expansion. A standard, centralized approach in DBS service offerings minimizes risk and supports strategic portfolio management.

Our Talent Value Proposition is to Empower, Engage, and Elevate our workforce through Best in class Employee Experience in the whole Talent cycle within DBS. We embody the values of COLLABORATIVE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT, RESPECTS AND VALUES PEOPLE, WINNING THROUGH CUSTOMERS, HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS, OPENNESS AND TRUST, and EXPECTATIONS FOR RESULTS. And we continue to blaze the trail in providing insightful solutions for our stakeholders. Our culture of Opportunity and Development, Coaching and Collaboration, Continuous Learning, Recognition and Impact, and Results-driven will help us achieve Our Vision of Becoming the provider of choice for our Operating companies and its customers.

We are located in Cebu, Philippines; Suzhou, China; Bucharest, Romania; Bangalore, India; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Our corporate headquarters is in Downers Grove, Illinois.