Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

Role Definition

Manages financial planning teams, monitors financial planning activities and develops strategic plans to increase an organization's operational efficiency and financial profitability for the Hard Rock Vehicles organization.

Responsibilities

• Presenting research and analysis findings, competitor analysis, financial forecasts and key insights to the senior management, and assisting them in making corporate and strategic decisions.
• Working closely with top management and other key stakeholders to prepare annual budgets and formulate strategic plans to meet business objectives.
• Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures providing guidance to others in the business.

Skill Descriptors

Business Acumen:

Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals.
Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area.
Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.

Finance and Accounting:

Documents financial interdependencies within the organization.
Develops and applies cost/benefit analysis or ROI as part of business decisions.
Provides build-buy-lease analyses for major expenditures.
Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cost accounting and reporting practices, tools, and procedures.
Explains cost/benefit analysis, financial analysis and modeling, organizational practices.
Coaches others on how to quantify costs and benefits for major expenditures.

Organizational Governance:

Identifies and avoids actual or apparent conflicts of interest.
Describes the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors and senior executives.
Participates in reviewing compliance with governance policies and guidelines.
Reviews financial information for compliance with statutory and ethical obligations.
Provides frequent updates on operations and financial performance to upper management.

Strategic Thinking:

Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.

Leadership:

Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.

Financial Analysis:

Conducts and documents analyses of a variety of financial statements and indicators.
Anticipates the potential impact of decisions based on financial data analysis.
Oversees financial analysis to evaluate organizational and managerial performance.
Evaluates financial statements and ensures regulatory compliance.
Advises others on a variety of financial tools, techniques and approaches.
Directs others work with financial and cash flow ratios and trend analyses.

Financial Forecasting and Modeling:

Evaluates the key benefits and drawbacks of alternative models.
Uses financial models to seek investment opportunities, cost-savings ideas, and growth opportunities.
Utilizes the features and facilities of multiple modeling tools applicable to various situations.
Participates in making business decisions based on financial forecasts and models.
Consults on the applicati