Financial Planning Analysis

Job Title: Lead - Financial Planning & Analysis

- **Contract length**: 6-12 Months

**Location: Redwood Shores, California

### Essential Duties, Critical Success Factors, Responsibilities, Authorities, and Required Interactions:

Sciex is looking for a highly capable Manager, FP&A who can:

- Build and sustain finance expenses and reporting models.

- Engage with upper management as a strong business partner.

- Become a trusted financial advisor to VPs in the Americas Commercial team.

This position will provide direct support for the US Commercial and Service functions. A successful candidate will:

- Exhibit strong business insight with a desire and ability to understand the business, not simply report on it.

- Be comfortable partnering with senior management on resource and planning needs.

- Enjoy identifying and driving operational improvements across the Finance and Accounting organization.

Key responsibilities:

- Drive expense variance analysis and partner with Commercial and Service business leaders to execute on plan; analyze historical, current, and projected financial data for planning, forecasting, and decision making.

- Perform in-depth financial and operational analysis, along with quarterly/annual forecast modeling, including operating expenses, headcount, and capital, to accelerate future business planning decisions.

- Establish a regular cadence with business partners to review monthly actuals, analyze forecast variance, identify trends, and provide recommendations to drive forecast execution and accuracy.

- Prepare, analyze, and distribute functional and internal management reports, including financials (P&L) and the operating review package.

- Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end FP&A close activities, including journal entries, reporting, and forecasting related to headcount, capital, and operating expenses.

- Understand standard accounting principles and policies, interacting with accounting and financial partners to maintain proper financial processes, procedures, and controls.

- Conduct ad-hoc planning and analysis to support the business and senior management.

### Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

- BS in Accounting/Finance or equivalent experience.

- 8+ years of proven experience in FP&A (Finance).

- Experience with HFM, Hyperion, Essbase planning, Power BI, Oracle ERP is a plus.

- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively interpret problems and provide solutions.

- Proficient in Excel, including creating automated models and workbooks using formulas, look-ups, and pivot tables.

- Outstanding prioritization skills with the ability to organize multiple, competing priorities.

- Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate with leadership.

- Natural bias towards continuous improvement.

### Additional Requirements:

- The candidate is expected to learn and participate in the company s continuous improvement culture by supporting daily management activities and participating in team-based process improvement projects.

- The ideal candidate should be highly adaptable and possess the initiative and resourcefulness to complete work assignments in a changing environment, with the ability to interface with all levels of staff.

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