Manager of Finance
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Description
- UTA seeks an experienced Manager, Finance to serve as a central finance resource responsible for coordinating and supporting the company’s financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and related systems processes. This role will work primarily with the FP&A and system leads to ensure that financial inputs, timelines, assumptions, deliverables and data are complete, consistent, and submitted on schedule
- The position will help coordinate recurring forecast processes, support the preparation of monthly financial reviews, and contribute to the development and execution of the annual planning and long-range planning processes. The role will also support finance systems, dashboarding, reporting automation, KPI tracking, and process improvements that make financial data more accessible, consistent, and actionable across the organization
- Coordinate timelines, milestones, deliverables, communications, calendars, templates, and version control for monthly reporting, quarterly outlooks, annual planning, long-range planning, and other recurring finance processes across UTA’s global business
- Gather, consolidate, and validate financial inputs, reporting packages, commentary, risks, and opportunities from divisional finance leads; proactively escalate missed deadlines, unresolved dependencies, and data inconsistencies
- Support monthly financial reviews through management reporting, variance and trend analysis, supporting schedules, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and reconciliation of forecast and planning outputs
- Partner with UTA’s divisional FP&A leads to standardize financial assumptions, reporting methodologies, terminology, templates, presentation formats, and planning processes across the company
- Serve as a finance systems subject matter resource and partner with Finance Systems, Business Intelligence, IT, and related teams on system administration, enhancements, implementations, testing, data validation, metadata maintenance, workflow administration, reporting improvements, and process optimization
- Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and streamline recurring finance activities and improve the accessibility, consistency, and usability of financial data
- Support the Director with commission allocation workflows and related analytics and dashboard development
- Develop and maintain standardized dashboards that support recurring monthly reporting and provide UTA department heads across the company with timely data for decision-making
- Establish KPI definitions, governance standards, and reporting processes to ensure consistent performance tracking across all lines of business
- Build strong working relationships across the finance organization, facilitate communication and issue resolution, and prepare ad hoc financial analyses and special projects as needed
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and financial planning processes
- Experience partnering with Finance Systems, Business Intelligence, or Information Technology teams
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification preferred
- High attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to identify and escalate issues appropriately
- Strong analytical, organizational, written communication, and problem-solving skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including financial modeling and preparation of management-ready materials
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or comparable platforms preferred
- Experience with enterprise performance management or financial planning platforms such as OneStream, Oracle Hyperion or EPBCS, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or a comparable system preferred
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex, deadline-driven processes across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Approximately 5 to 8 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, finance operations, financial reporting, or related discipline
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- Ability to build effective working relationships and influence stakeholders without direct authority
- Experience supporting annual operating plans and long-range planning cycles in a multi-division organization preferred