FP&A Senior Manager EY GDS

The FP&A Senior Manager is accountable for the endtoend Financial Planning & Analysis strategy governance and transformation across business units or client engagements.

The role owns and drives planning forecasting performance management and insight generation by leading highperforming teams embedding bestinclass analytical and planning practices and accelerating digital enablement to deliver forwardlooking insights financial transparency and measurable value creation.

This role is accountable for translating enterprise and finance strategy into decisionready insights ensuring robust forecasting valuefocused performance management and a scalable futureready FP&A operating model.

Job Goals

• Deliver bestinclass planning and forecasting performance

• • Achieve high accuracy predictability and agility across budgeting rolling forecasts and strategic plans.
  • Enable faster scenario modelling and forecasting in response to business changes.

• Be the trusted partner for business performance

• • Provide actionable insights to CFOs and business leaders to support strategic and operational decisions.
  • Establish FP&A as a valuecreation engine not a reporting function.

• Own financial performance transparency

• • Ensure clear visibility of drivers variances and outcomes across P&L cash flow and key KPIs.
  • Enable consistent performance narratives and management reporting.

• Accelerate digital predictive and insightled FP&A

• • Embed automation analytics and AI across planning forecasting and performance analysis.
  • Shift FP&A from backwardlooking reporting to forwardlooking decision support.

• Drive productivity and costtovalue outcomes

• • Deliver yearonyear productivity improvements through standardization automation and selfservice analytics.
  • Release capacity from manual analysis towards business partnering and insight generation.

• Build a futureready FP&A organization

• • Develop strong analytical commercial and digital capabilities across FP&A teams.
  • Ensure scalable resilient and globally aligned FP&A operating models.

• Embed continuous improvement and value realization

• • Convert insight opportunities into executed actions with quantified benefits.
  • Continuously evolve the FP&A model to support growth complexity and strategic transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the global FP&A process architecture aligned to enterprise financial strategy and performance frameworks.
• Govern endtoend FP&A processes including:

• • Strategic Planning & LongRange Forecasting
  • Annual Budgeting & Rolling Forecasts
  • Management Reporting & Performance Reviews
  • Cost Margin and Profitability Analysis
  • Cash Flow & Working Capital Analytics
  • Scenario Sensitivity and WhatIf Modelling

• Ensure global standardization of planning calendars assumptions driver models and reporting frameworks.
• Define governance for forecast assumptions commentary standards and performance narratives.
• Act as the escalation point for complex performance insights forecast challenges and executive decision support.

Digital & Analytical & Transformation Enablement

• Own the digital FP&A roadmap embedding automation advanced analytics and AI across all planning and reporting cycles.
• Partner with transformation and IT teams to:

• • Implement driverbased and connected planning solutions.
  • Enable integrated financial and operational planning models.
  • Deploy predictive forecasting scenario modelling and AIbased trend analysis.
  • Standardize Power BI dashboards and selfservice analytics for executives and business leaders.

• Promote adoption of modern EPM and planning platforms (e.g. Anaplan SAP Analytics Cloud Adaptive Oracle EPM).
• Track automation adoption forecast accuracy uplift and decisioncycle acceleration.

Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a strategic advisor to CFOs Finance Directors and business leadership on performance management and value creation.
• Lead FP&A governance forums aligning financial insight with enterprise priorities.
• Partner crossfunctionally with Operations Commercial HR and Strategy teams.
• Translate financial insights into clear executiveready narratives for decisionmaking.
• Influence enterprise planning maturity performance frameworks and KPI evolution.

Capability & People Development

• Build and lead a futureready FP&A organization with strong analytical commercial and digital skills.
• Define and deliver FP&A capability roadmaps covering:

• • Advanced financial modelling
  • Business partnering & storytelling
  • Analytics automation and AI literacy

• Drive leadership development succession planning and role enrichment.
• Foster a culture of curiosity insightdriven thinking and accountability.

Performance Risk & Control Management

• Define and monitor FP&A KPIs covering forecast accuracy insight impact and decision effectiveness.
• Own performance review frameworks ensuring outcomefocused discussions.
• Track benefits of realization of strategic initiatives and cost programs.
• Enable transparent linkage between strategy targets execution and financial outcomes.

Functional & Technical Skills

• Deep expertise across the FP&A lifecycle including:

• • Strategic Planning Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Financial Modelling and Scenario Analysis
  • Performance Management and KPI Design
  • Cost Margin and Profitability Analytics
  • Cash Flow and ValueBased Analysis

• Strong understanding of business drivers value levels and operational economics.
• Proven experience designing and governing FP&A operating models across geographies.
• Handson experience with EPM planning and analytics platforms.
• Advanced proficiency in analytics and visualization tools (Power BI Tableau).
• Strong understanding of data architecture planning integration and AIenabled forecasting.

Future-Ready & Behavioural Competencies

• Strategic Insight: Shapes performance management to drive better business outcomes.
• Digital Leadership: Embeds automation analytics and AI into FP&A.
• Commercial Acumen: Turns financial insights into business decisions.
• Influence & Storytelling: Converts analysis into compelling executive narratives.
• Change Agility: Champions new ways of planning and decisionmaking.
• Capability Builder: Develops highperforming insightdriven FP&A teams.

Performance Metrics / KPIs

• Forecast accuracy and predictability
• Planning and reforecast cycle time
• Adoption of driverbased and predictive planning
• Quality and impact of insights on decision outcomes
• Stakeholder satisfaction (CFO / Executive feedback)
• Capability uplift and talent retention

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: CA CPA ACCA MBA (Finance) or equivalent.
• Experience: 1520 years in finance including 5 years in FP&A leadership or enterprise planning roles.
• Proven experience in:

• • Advanced FP&A and performance management.
  • Digital and analyticsled FP&A transformation.
  • Multicountry delivery stakeholder management and executive engagement.

• Exposure to largescale transformations and complex organizations preferred.