Manager, FP&A Labor Finance and Productivity
Lawrenceville, NJ - USA
Job Summary
This role is responsible for designing and institutionalizing a financially grounded labor planning and analytics framework that enables clear understanding of labor supply and demand dynamics productivity cost drivers and tradeoffs across retail stores labs and clinical environments. It provides disciplined labor forecasts consistent performance views and decision-ready insights to support enterprise leadership. Reporting into Retail Finance and partnering closely FP&A Business Intelligence and Operations this role serves as the enterprise leader for labor planning and analytics. The Sr Manager integrates labor data and systems establishes planning and reporting standards and builds operating rhythms that support proactive labor management aligned with financial and operational objectives.
What Would You Do The Specifics.
Enterprise Labor Planning & Financial Stewardship
- Leads enterprise labor planning budgeting forecasting and performance management across retail stores labs and clinical environments aligning labor economics with enterprise financial objectives.
- Owns the labor planning framework that translates labor demand capacity and productivity into financially coherent plans forecasts and performance views.
- Partners with Retail Finance to ensure labor plans are fully integrated into the broader retail P&L margin and leverage narratives.
Labor Analytics Framework & System Integration
- Designs and institutionalizes an enterprise labor analytics framework reconciling labor-related systems data sources assumptions and definitions into a consistent trusted financial view.
- Establishes standards for labor metrics KPIs and analytical methodologies to support consistent interpretation across Finance Operations and executive leadership.
- Ensures labor analytics are scalable auditable and aligned with public-company governance and reporting expectations.
Planning Forecasting & Risk Management
- Leads labor forecasting processes including rolling forecasts scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling enabling proactive management of labor-related risks and opportunities.
- Identifies emerging labor trends constraints and productivity drivers; quantifies financial impact and supports timely leadership decision-making.
- Ensures labor forecasts and plans remain aligned with enterprise targets while reflecting evolving operational realities.
Reporting Insight & Decision Support
- Oversees labor performance reporting across daily weekly and monthly cadences ensuring outputs are decision-oriented analytically rigorous and clearly connected to financial outcomes.
- Partners with Business Intelligence and Data & Analytics teams to define labor reporting requirements dashboard logic and adoption standards in a BI-driven environment.
- Translates complex labor dynamics into clear decision-ready insights for Finance leadership Retail executives and board-level discussions.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence
- Serves as a key finance partner to Retail Operations Workforce teams Merchandising and BI supporting labor-related decisions through analytics planning and financial insight.
- Drives alignment across functions by establishing a shared fact base for labor discussions and enabling constructive tradeoff evaluation.
- Resolves analytical and planning disagreements through data judgment and collaboration escalating material issues through Finance leadership as appropriate.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Leads and develops labor planning and analytics talent setting expectations for analytical rigor ownership and enterprise thinking.
- Builds repeatable processes operating rhythms and documentation that institutionalize labor planning capabilities beyond individual contributors.
- Models the leadership behaviors expected of senior finance leaders at National Vision including initiative intellectual curiosity disciplined execution and cross-functional collaboration.
Qualifications :
Work Experience
- 8 years Progressive experience in FP&A strategic finance or corporate development with exposure to enterprise planning and reporting ((Required))
- 3 years Leadership experience in multi-unit retail healthcare or consumer-facing business with distributed operations ((Required))
Education
- Four year college degree or equivalent experience. resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job such as accounting marketing business administration etc. (Required)
- Masters Degree MBA (Preferred)
Additional Skills
- Demonstrated success transforming manual or decentralized FP&A processes into standardized automated structures (Required)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (Required)
- Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint (Required)
- Expertise in data visualization tools (Power BI preferred; Tableau acceptable) (Required)
- Experience using enterprise planning systems (Oracle EPM Hyperion or similar) (Required)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate financial data into executive-ready insights (Required)
- Proven change-leadership capability within evolving FP&A or transformation environments (Required)
Additional Information :
Taking Care of our People!
We understand the importance of financial health and security and because of that we provide competitive compensation to all Associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance 401k retirement savings with company match flex spending account paid personal time off paid company holidays parental leave employee eyewear discount and much much more. At National Vision we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within. #LI-SH1
We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin genetic information disability veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
National Vision is one of the fastest growing optical retail companies in the U.S. with over 1,200 stores in 38 states and Puerto Rico. We help people see their best to live their best through our optical products and services. For more than 30 years, we have been improving lives by p ... View more