FP&A Manager

FP&A Manager with a PE-backed company in Gainesville, GA.
 

Summary

This role is a newly created, high-potential role responsible for building the forecasting, pricing, and operational reporting capabilities that the business runs on day to day. It will partner closely with Finance, Sales, and Operations leadership to translate data into decisions.

Responsibilities

Forecasting, Budgeting & Reporting

• Build and maintain driver-based 3-statement forecasts and the annual operating budget across two company entities, including consolidations and intercompany eliminations.
• Own the weekly P&L estimate process, including sales volume by customer, margin walks, and variance commentary versus forecast.
• Produce monthly management reporting packages for Executive Leadership, the Board, and PE sponsor.
• Partner with the Cost Accountant/Analyst on standard costs, yield variances, and plant P&L roll-ups.

BI, Dashboards & Tools

• Own Aleph as the company’s FP&A platform — model build-out, integrations, user access, and roadmap.
• Design and build dashboards in Aleph for Finance, Sales, and Operations, with ability to clean data from source systems.
• Establish a single source of truth for key metrics across the consolidated company.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI tools (such as Claude and Copilot) to accelerate analysis, reporting, and workflow automation.

Pricing & Commercial Analytics

• Build pricing models and margin analytics by customer, product, and segment.
• Support customer pricing controls, change logs, and the approval workflow with Sales and Accounting.
• Analyze bids, RFPs, and contract renewals to inform commercial decisions.

Operations Support & KPIs

• Partner with Plant Leadership and the COO to build operational KPIs: plant yields, throughput, labor (via ProLiant), downtime, and cost per pound.
• Translate operational data into clear, action-oriented dashboards used in weekly management operating reviews.
• Support CapEx analysis and post-investment reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive FP&A, BI, or analytics experience — including time spent building, not just maintaining.
• Hands-on experience building 3-statement forecasts and annual budgets from scratch.
• Hands-on experience building dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.  SQL knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with Aleph or another modern FP&A platform (Pigment, Mosaic, Cube, Workday Adaptive, Anaplan) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AI tools (Claude or similar) for analysis and productivity is a plus.
• Manufacturing, food, or other multi-plant industrial experience is a plus.
• Private equity-backed or multi-entity company experience is a plus.