Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager positions offered by Hitachi Energy USA Inc. (Raleigh, NC). Develop and prepare company’s financial plans and budgets. Interpret financial reports including leading the annual budget process for all North America factories, including establishing internal timelines, developing templates, sharing guidelines, and consolidating, tracking and reporting all budget figures up to Hub and BU management levels. Partner with Hub functional leadership to develop, consolidate and report all budget figures at functional level to ensure adequate planning and identify trends, improvement opportunities and corrective actions needed. Coordinate consolidation and development of monthly financial forecasts, including management reporting packages customized to local and global requirements, to sum up performance to date and provide insight on expected results for coming periods. Design and implement semi-automated and manual analytical tools to evaluate monthly actual results and support forecasting and analysis of actual results and deviations. Conduct financial analyses. Drive monthly reconciliation of P&L, BS and supplemental data with all factory controllers and the Corporate Consolidation System during month-end reporting to ensure accurate figures and timely issue escalation. Support the full deployment and implementation of new cloud-based tools to improve current analytical tools (e.g. TM1, Power BI) to allow greater focus on value-add analysis that enable strategic decision making. Actively work towards the goal of harmonized and standardized processes in alignment with global guidelines.

Minimum Requirements: 

Requires a Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field and 10 years of experience in the position offered or 10 years of experience performing financial statement analysis. Requires 10 years of experience: conducting financial planning; performing accounting; and conducting financial reporting. Also requires 8 years of experience: using SAP; and preparing financial presentations. Requires 7 years of experience supervising a team of direct reports.  Position reports to Raleigh, NC office.  Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office. Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently.