Location: Huntsville, AL or Norcross, GA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, In Office Tuesday through Thursday, Remote Monday and Friday
Employment Type: Direct Placement
Experience Level: Senior Leadership
Experience Required: 8 to 12+ Years
Position Overview
We are recruiting a highly analytical and systems-oriented Senior Manager, Financial Reporting to lead consolidated financial reporting and planning analytics across global operations.
This role sits at the intersection of FP&A, Accounting, and Data, with primary accountability for consolidated reporting, planning insights, and financial storytelling across U.S. and international business entities.
This leader will own the integrity, scalability, and modernization of financial reporting processes, leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and enterprise master data structures to deliver actionable insights to executive leadership.
Consolidated Financial Reporting
- Lead the preparation and analysis of consolidated financials across U.S. and international operations.
- Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages for executive leadership.
- Analyze and explain consolidated actuals versus forecast and budget variances.
- Evaluate key revenue drivers across hardware, software, and services.
- Analyze gross margin drivers, including product mix, supply chain, and cost.
- Analyze operating expense trends and underlying business drivers.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory results.
Forecasting, Budgeting & P&L Ownership
- Own the global P&L reporting framework across forecast cycles and the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
- Drive calendar governance for forecasting and budgeting cycles, including clear timelines, stakeholder alignment, and submission discipline.
- Develop driver-based models to improve forecast accuracy.
- Develop and maintain backlog-driven revenue forecasting models.
- Model cost scaling based on volume, headcount, and other relevant business drivers.
- Lead cross-functional alignment with business leaders, Sales, and Operations.
SAP Analytics Cloud Ownership
- Serve as the functional owner of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for FP&A reporting.
- Maintain and enhance financial models within SAC.
- Develop and improve financial reporting dashboards.
- Maintain and enhance planning workflows.
- Establish and maintain a single source of truth for reporting and planning data.
- Drive adoption of self-service analytics across Finance and business teams.
Financial Data & Master Data Governance
- Develop deep expertise in enterprise financial structures, including Chart of Accounts hierarchies, cost centers, profit centers, and legal entity structures.
- Ensure the accuracy and consistency of financial rollups across reporting views.
- Partner with IT and Finance teams to improve data governance and data quality.
- Identify and eliminate manual workarounds and reconciliation gaps.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and consistency of enterprise financial reporting.
FX & Global Financial Analysis
- Own analysis and reporting of foreign exchange impacts.
- Analyze transaction versus translation effects.
- Develop and maintain forecast FX assumptions.
- Provide insights into cross-currency performance trends.
- Partner with Treasury and Accounting on FX-related drivers and sensitivities.
Executive Reporting & Business Insights
- Deliver executive-ready financial reporting and actionable business insights.
- Identify and communicate key business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop clear financial narratives and recommended actions based on reporting and analysis.
- Support Board and executive leadership materials with high-quality financial storytelling.
- Translate complex financial information into concise, decision-oriented insights.
Transformation & Automation
- Identify and lead initiatives to modernize FP&A and financial reporting.
- Automate reporting processes and reduce manual Excel-based workflows.
- Partner with Finance and IT to deploy AI-driven variance analysis.
- Support implementation of forecasting enhancements using automation and advanced analytics.
- Apply anomaly detection capabilities to financial reporting and analysis.
- Establish scalable and auditable reporting processes aligned with applicable control requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 8 to 12+ years of experience in FP&A, financial reporting, or related roles.
- Experience working in global, multi-entity, and multi-currency environments.
- Strong experience with consolidated financial reporting.
- Strong experience with forecasting and budgeting processes.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or a similar financial planning platform.
- Deep understanding of financial hierarchies and enterprise master data structures.
- Strong knowledge of variance analysis and financial drivers.
- Strong business partner mindset with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate complex financial data into clear business insights.
- High attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive change.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within telecommunications, networking, or technology hardware and software businesses.
- Experience with backlog-driven revenue models.
- Familiarity with deferred revenue and long sales cycles.
- Experience working with global manufacturing and supply chain cost structures.
About the Opportunity
This direct placement opportunity provides a senior finance leader the chance to own and modernize global financial reporting and planning analytics within a complex, multi-entity, multi-currency organization.
The role combines consolidated reporting, FP&A, forecasting, SAP Analytics Cloud, master data governance, FX analysis, executive financial storytelling, automation, and emerging AI capabilities. It is well suited for a finance leader who can move between detailed financial analysis, systems and data, cross-functional partnership, and executive-level communication.
Candidates may be based in Huntsville, Alabama or Norcross, Georgia. The position follows a hybrid schedule with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday and remote work Monday and Friday.
