We are looking for an experienced FP&A Manager to join the finance team in New Jersey for a contract opportunity with potential for a permanent role. This role will provide hands-on support during a high-priority budgeting cycle while covering key planning and reporting needs for a team with limited bandwidth. The ideal candidate will partner closely with finance leadership to deliver budgeting, analysis, and reporting insights, while helping maintain continuity across core financial planning activities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead budgeting and forecasting activities by developing detailed financial plans and supporting timely consolidation of business inputs.
- Partner with finance leadership to execute assigned planning, reporting, and modeling work that supports near-term and strategic decision-making.
- Build, refine, and maintain advanced Excel models that analyze performance across customers, product categories, brands, and sourcing dimensions.
- Review large volumes of financial and operational data to organize meaningful reporting across numerous customer and product combinations.
- Prepare recurring management reports and ad hoc analyses that highlight trends, risks, and opportunities for the finance team.
- Recreate and standardize existing financial reports using available formats, while ensuring consistency and accuracy in output.
- Support reporting and planning work within financial planning and budgeting tools, using manual Excel-based reporting when needed to meet deadlines.
- Contribute to process efficiency by improving report structure, usability, and overall support for the FP&A function during the assignment.
- Demonstrated experience in FP&A with strong capability in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and management reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills with a track record of building and maintaining complex financial models.
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite; exposure to NetSuite Planning and Budgeting tools is strongly preferred.
- Ability to interpret current reporting packages and reproduce them accurately in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working with large, multi-dimensional datasets and translating them into clear financial insights.
- Proven ability to work independently, learn unfamiliar systems quickly, and manage priorities assigned by senior finance leaders.
- Background in financial analysis and annual budget planning; experience supporting lending or closely related financial environments is a plus.