Sr. Manager of FP&A

Title: Senior Manager of FP&A

Compensation: $180,000 - $200,000 + Bonus + ESOP

Location: Fullerton, CA 92831 (Onsite)

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Company Description:

Our client in the construction services industry is seeking a Senior Manager of FP&A to support a period of rapid growth across a multi-division organization. Reporting to senior finance leadership, this newly created role will build the FP&A function from the ground up and play a key role in bringing structure, analytics, and forecasting discipline to a complex, project-based business. The ideal candidate must have construction or project-based finance experience, a strong understanding of WIP and project accounting, and a proven track record of building FP&A processes.

Perks:

• ESOP equity
• Newly created role
• Casual work environment

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement the company's FP&A framework, including planning calendars, reporting cadences, and standardized forecasting methodologies.
• Build and maintain the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial plans across multiple divisions and business lines.
• Develop monthly variance analysis that explains performance against budget and forecast at the project, division, and company level.
• Partner with accounting to analyze work-in-progress schedules, over/under billings, and deferred revenue to ensure forecasts reflect true project performance.
• Evaluate how project costs flow between the balance sheet and income statement, providing clear insight into margin fade, gain, and percentage-of-completion trends.
• Create and own the company's cash flow forecasting process, accounting for project billing cycles, retention, and the timing of large cost commitments.
• Translate a large, multi-year project backlog into revenue, margin, and resource forecasts that support strategic and operational planning.
• Lead month-end financial analysis and deliver concise management reporting packages to executive leadership.
• Build dashboards and self-service reporting tools that give project, division, and executive leaders real-time visibility into financial performance.
• Support the calculation and analysis of profit-based sales compensation, ensuring accuracy and alignment with project results.
• Serve as a finance business partner to operations and project leaders, helping them understand project economics and make data-driven decisions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate planning and reporting processes using existing ERP, BI, and planning tools.
• Prepare ad hoc financial models and analyses for growth initiatives, capital decisions, and new market opportunities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Construction or project-based finance experience is required.
• Strong understanding of WIP, billings, and deferred revenue accounting is required.
• Proven experience building FP&A processes, including variance analysis, cash forecasting, and month-end analysis
• Ability to thrive in a project-driven environment with lumpy cost structures and varied project terms
• Experience with Business Central, Power BI, or Solver is a plus.

Email your word document resume to [email protected] and reference the subject as Senior Manager of FP&A