Senior FP&A Manager

At Brooks, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of World Class, Empowered, Accountable, Respectful, Engaged.

Senior FP&A Manager

Job Description

Brooks is a growing, fast-paced technology leader of automation solutions which support the dynamic and expanding semiconductor and life sciences lab markets. At Brooks, new ideas, technologies, and ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and collaborate with one another to achieve new heights. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager for the Enterprise G&A function to help accelerate our growth journey.

This unique opportunity within the Finance function integrates business partnership, financial modeling, accounting, reporting, and technology to impact transformational initiatives across our global functions (HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Facilities, etc.). This role, reporting to the Director of Enterprise FP&A, will oversee a small team and requires the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, drive deadlines, and identify creative solutions, and the right candidate will be collaborative, enthusiastic, and customer-service-centric.

What you will do:

Business Partnership - provide direct support to the functional leaders

• Develop, improve, and issue timely monthly financial reports
• Analyzes results, trends, performance metrics, and provides variance and root cause analyses to guide business decisions, highlighting causes of unexpected variances
• Prepares quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans
• Support business case and ROI analysis

Global Process & Management Reporting Leadership

• Consolidation of global forecast, budget, and long-range plans
• Assists in the preparation of monthly/quarterly financial reports for executive leadership and external stakeholders
• Perform benchmarking analysis of company metrics against peer group.
• Assists in preparation of the Board of Directors packages and quarterly management reviews
• Coordinates and prepares monthly cash flow analysis and projection
• Continuously improving the financial reporting and information capabilities of the company

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university with 8+ years of FP&A or Finance experience; MBA, CPA or CMA a plus.
• Proven experience and ability to be an effective financial partner to the business in a global matrixed organization.
• Deep experience with FP&A budgeting/planning/forecasting/reporting applications is a plus.
• Demonstrated self-starter who will take initiative to drive results. Strong attention to detail, strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to question status quo and provide solutions. Ability to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers.
• Ability to understand big picture with a sharp eye for details and inconsistencies. Positive attitude and strong team player with eagerness to learn and add value to the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to approach assignments with intellectual curiosity and analytical mindset, eager to understand the business, particularly as it relates to process improvement and business effectiveness.
• Strong time management, organizational and project management skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively, to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, matrixed, team environment consisting of domestic and international members.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills with the ability to tailor communications to varying levels with the organization. Ability to influence and drive change diplomatically.
• Demonstrated experience performing modeling, forecasting and budgeting-related financial activities.
• Understanding of data structure and data analytics along with the ability to work with business units and IS/IT to ensure adequate design of systems and reporting needs

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Brooks Automation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.