Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

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Updated: 08/07/2023

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.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• 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: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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: Knowledge of the processes, customs, policies, and rules affecting the way the organization is administered and controlled; ability to ensure compliance with governance guidelines and policies.
Level Working Knowledge:
• 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: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• 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: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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 application of a variety of forecasting and modeling techniques.
• Analyzes and resolves anomalies discovered when running models.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): Knowledge of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); ability to apply GAAP appropriately within the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Analyzes internal and external sources of information for accounting practices.
• Solves conflicting interpretations of the meaning and application of GAAP.
• Researches and reports any contradictions that may arise in regards to GAAP vs. local law.
• Uses established accounting practices in day-to-day assignments.
• Applies specific accounting principles in the context of given business situations.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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