Senior FP&A Manager

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• **Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager** **Cedar Rapids, IA | Full-Time | On-site** **Compensation:** $120,000-$150,000+, depending on experience **Schedule:** Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., with flexibility for a 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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• A locally owned shared services company in Eastern Iowa supports a growing group of 30+ independently owned construction, manufacturing, and industrial companies with strategic and financial solutions.
• They are seeking a finance professional with **operational experience and hands-on ERP implementation expertise** to join their growing finance team.
• This newly created position will **work directly with the Financial leadership team** to lead systems conversions, improve financial and operational processes, and take ownership of projects across the companies they support.
• The ideal candidate understands how work moves through a business-from purchasing, inventory, and production to project execution, costing, and financial reporting-and can help ensure the supporting systems and processes function effectively.
• You'll work alongside company leaders, accounting teams, and operational staff to understand business needs, investigate problems, and implement practical solutions.
• Some projects will involve transitioning to a new ERP system; others will focus on improving workflows, resolving data issues, or helping leadership better understand profitability and operational performance.
• The primary focus of this position is **systems implementation, operational improvement, and project execution**, supported by financial analysis and reporting.
• This is initially an individual-contributor leadership role with responsibility and influence across multiple companies.
• **What You'll Own** * Work with company teams and implementation partners to define requirements, map processes, validate and migrate data, test functionality, and support a successful transition.
• * Understand how purchasing, inventory, production, labor, and project activity flow through systems into costing, accounting, and reporting.
• * Investigate financial and operational issues, identify root causes, and help implement improvements, including on-site support when needed.
• * Establish next steps, coordinate the people involved, communicate progress, and follow projects through completion.
• * Identify gaps in processes, configuration, controls, and training that create manual work, unreliable information, or operational inefficiencies.
• * Evaluate job and product profitability, margins, WIP, inventory, cost variances, and other performance drivers relevant to each business.
• * Help teams develop reliable information and practical reporting tools that support business decisions.
• * Document processes, support user training, and work with employees to ensure new systems and workflows function in day-to-day operations.
• * Assist with financial evaluation and the integration of systems and processes for companies joining the shared services model.
• **Required Experience and Qualifications** * **5+ years of relevant accounting or finance experience**, including meaningful involvement in business operations and process improvement.
• * Operational finance experience in a related industrial environment (construction, manufacturing, etc), with an understanding of how operational activity affects costs, margins, and financial results.
• * Relevant experience serving as a finance lead, functional expert, or core implementation team member leading a significant systems improvement project, with responsibility beyond routine system use.
• * A strong accounting foundation and the ability to trace information from operational activity through system transactions and financial reporting.
• * Demonstrated success identifying the cause of a problem and implementing a practical solution.
• * The ability to take ownership of projects with incomplete information, establish a workable approach, and move the work forward with appropriate independence.
• * Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with finance leadership, company leaders, accounting staff, operational teams, and external implementation partners.
• * Sound judgment, discretion with sensitive information, and a willingness to work directly with teams to understand how their businesses operate.
• * Ability to travel to supported companies as needed, approximately **10-15%**.
• **Preferred Experience** * Manufacturing cost accounting, standard costing, inventory, bills of material, production variances, or purchasing and production workflows.
• * Construction job costing, WIP, project profitability, or gain/fade analysis.
• * Experience with ERP platforms or comparable systems (such as Epicor, Acumatica, JD Edwards, Oracle, Fourth Shift), including the ability to transfer knowledge between platforms.
• * Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI or other reporting and data analysis tools.
• * Experience collaborating with IT, procurement, production, project management, or other operational functions.
• * Continuous improvement, workflow redesign, automation, or user training experience.
• * Exposure to acquisition due diligence or post-acquisition integration.
• **Compensation & Perks** * $120,000-$150,000+, depending on experience.
• * Annual performance bonus tied to systems execution and portfolio performance.
• * Comprehensive benefits and 401(k) match.
• * Direct partnership with and exposure to the executive leadership team.

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