Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Company: Axient
Location: Huntsville
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
Overview:
Axient LLC continues to grow allowing for new and exciting
opportunities to join our team! - We are looking for an experienced
professional with a background in financial planning to join our
corporate team as the Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis. -
Responsibilities:
Duties will include, but are not limited to:Monitor actual indirect
rates across various cost centers within the company. - Investigate
and report deviations from plan to Management. - Business liaison
between the operating segments and the corporate home-office. -
Ensure financial plans reflect the forward-looking estimates tied
to the project and cost accounting reporting process. Strengthen
process workflow for financial reporting & forecastingConduct the
Annual Operating Plan (budgeting) process. - Develop templates,
reporting timeline, instructions, and issue to organization. -
Advise financial reps within the business segments throughout the
process.Prepare monthly reporting package to Business Segments. -
Monitor trends and provide early indication of inconsistencies with
expected data results.Supply business metric and KPI reporting data
for monthly reporting. - Work with Business Development team to
insure reliability of revenue forecast of pipeline
opportunities.Communicate requests for updated budgets, forecast,
scenarios, and ad hoc analysis throughout the finance and PM
communities. - Consolidate inputs and provide quality deliverables
to management describing findings and analysis.Track actual
expenditures versus budget and report on variances.Assist the
Executive Director, Finance in development of budgeted pools and
base compilations for the annual provisional billing rate
submission and any revisions.Develop & refine company's financial
reporting tool suite including creating of standard reporting
packages for various stakeholders in Deltek Costpoint Cognos
Enterprise Reporting (CER), IBM Business Intelligence, and Planning
Analytics Workspace. - Ensure consistency in data reporting,
security settings, standardization, and access to data.Develop and
manage financial reporting road map. - Maintain investment case and
execute to approved budget commitment including the oversight of
internal and consultant resources in delivery of tool
development/upgrades and maintenance of subscription license
agreements. Identify and implement system process improvements to
improve visibility, trends, and root cause analysis of company's
operating performance.Build financial models and templates as
needed to support make vs. buy, return on investment, NPV, and
other business case development.Responsible for managing the
financial At-Risk process. - Collaborate with program finance to
monitor aggregate financial At-Risk position.Responsible for the
integrity and utility of the company's financial planning software
IBM TM1.Manage all phases of the planning system including
understanding the project and indirect account structures,
project/account mapping, testing, training, and post go-live
support.Train users on TM1 platform, maintain user guides, and
provide customer service to the operating segments.Maintain TM1
system baselines and archives. - Manage these baselining processes
and communicate to stakeholders.Design and implement any accounting
cost structure changes in TM1 for compatibility.Ensure cost
accounting integrity of the TM1 system. - Run routine verification
& validations per test plan.Lead TM1 expansion to rollout to new
entities within the company that are on the Costpoint platform.
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Qualifications:
BS degree in Finance/Accounting required.10 years or more relevant,
solid experience in the areas mentioned above.Must be able to
communicate effectively across all levels of the company.Must
demonstrate experience managing financial planning software as
mentioned above.Prior experience with ERP Planning Tools and
Costpoint required.Experience with the development and execution of
Annual Operating Plan and associated process/workflows is
required.Must meet applicable COVID safety requirements and
protocols
Keywords: Axient, Huntsville , Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Executive , Huntsville, Alabama
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