Partners with the Senior Financial Reporting Manager, Director of Finance, and Chief Financial Officer to drive the financial planning and analysis function at Make-A-Wish America. Collect, interpret, and model retrospective and prospective data to assist in business direction and decision-making. Prepare and present reporting tools to all areas of Make-A-Wish America operations.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Development and management of long-range financial planning models to run in parallel to the strategic planning cadence
- Leadership in driving a robust annual budgeting process for the Make-A-Wish national office, including target setting, model/template creation, partnership with key constituents and formalization of final budget reviews
- Ownership and leadership of national office financial forecast process, including partnering with all functions to develop variance analyses and forward-looking driver-based outlooks, as well as creating forecast rollup, review, and approval processes
- Lead and own holistic financial reporting strategy and execution, including monthly performance reporting, dashboard creation, and action-oriented communication to departments
- Execute on various other analytic projects as assigned to provide decision support for key trends in performance
- Play a role in financial project assessment as part of our project management intake process. Partner with key functions to help co-create driver-based ROI and cost-benefit assessments
- Perform other related job duties, as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree Required with an emphasis in Finance or Business / MBA Preferred
Skills/Experience:
- 5+ years of demonstrated success in an FP&A role that includes forecasting, planning, and analysis responsibilities
- Advanced skills in Excel, model building and in PowerPoint and reporting tools
- Demonstrated ability to translate financial data into dynamic analysis
- Ability to package key analyses and reporting components and a related ability to communicate to key partners in an easy to understand but action-oriented manner
- High standards of accuracy and precision with strong organizational skills
- Articulate, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Working Conditions:
- Work in an office environment.
- Occasional travel may be required.
- May require work outside a traditional Monday – Friday work week, and outside normal business hours.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 9 2018
Active Until:
May 9 2018
Hiring Organization:
Make-A-Wish America
industry:
Nonprofit