Job Summary
The Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) provides strategic financial leadership to support organizational priorities, long-term financial sustainability, and operational excellence. This position leads financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis for assigned service areas while serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership. The Manager partners with departments to translate complex financial information into actionable insights, optimize resource allocation, and support informed decision-making.
The Manager leads a high-performing team of financial professionals responsible for developing operating and capital budget recommendations, multi-year financial forecasts, business cases, financial modeling, and performance analysis. The role collaborates closely with operational leaders to align financial strategies with organizational priorities, identify risks and opportunities, and advance continuous improvement initiatives.
In addition, the Manager oversees the development and enhancement of financial planning processes, reporting, and decision-support tools; champions data-informed decision-making and financial systems optimization; and ensures compliance with governmental accounting standards (GASB), City financial policies, and public-sector best practices. Through collaborative leadership, sound financial stewardship, and a commitment to service excellence, this position advances financial transparency, accountability, and organizational performance across the City.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The following duties and responsibilities are illustrative of the primary functions of this position and are not intended to be all inclusive.
- In conjunction with service area and finance leadership, responsible for the hiring and onboarding of financial staff across service area. Direct oversight and management of service area finance staff.
- Review and edit budget vs. actual variance analysis and narrative assessment reports. Validate and understand variance root causes, develop recommendations for course of action, and review and communicate impacts and results with upper management and cross functional stakeholders.
- Drive budget development and forecast projections with management team. Develop alternatives for most effective utilization of resources. Document and review team details and rationale for use in periodic variance reporting.
- Analyze, interpret and communicate complex data utilizing broad accounting and finance conceptual knowledge.
- Data mine, compile, model and lead teams in analysis of data from various sources and systems (including ERP). Proactively identify and highlight business issue concerns and opportunities.
- Develop recommendations on business decisions based on broad knowledge of best practices and data supported financial analysis, and lead implementation of solutions.
- Participates and leads service area in capital improvement plan for core City infrastructure, coordination, validation, and assessment. Designs and actively seeks process improvements and cost-effective efficiencies.
- Oversee teams and manage financial ad hoc projects of complex nature, capital estimates, grant research and reporting, and process improvement initiatives with service area and organization-wide implications.
- Using wide experience and subject knowledge, helps to identify and explain complex issues of a financial nature, makes recommendations for resolution and works with operational and cross functional leadership to implement corrective and policy actions as needed.
- Performs and reviews standard financial and accounting work procedures while continuously looking for ways to improve processes and methods; implement improvements.
- Establish and analyze performance metrics and measures. Identifies opportunities for improvements and recommends solutions.
- Review data entries, accounting journals, payments (AP), invoices (AR), and general bookkeeping per documented procedures. Recommends process improvements to department staff.
- Delegates and makes decisions on how to best utilize finance staff and appropriations within constraints of Fund Accounting framework.
Management Responsibilities
Yes