FP&A Manager

Overview

This role involves building the financial planning and reporting foundation needed as the organization scales from a single operating site to a portfolio of plants. You will own the annual operating budget process, build the forecasts leadership relies on, and bring the same discipline to capital budgets behind the plants the organization finances and builds.

The organization is operating a commercial plant in Redding, California, and has a growing global project pipeline. This is a small team role where you will set up the systems, templates, models, and reporting cadence that the rest of the business uses.

Responsibilities

Operating Budgets

• Lead the annual operating budget process across departments.
• Build and maintain monthly and quarterly forecasts.
• Consolidate departmental inputs into a full company P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet outlook.
• Track actuals versus budget and forecast, and explain key drivers behind variances.
• Work with department heads to understand business drivers and develop realistic financial assumptions.

Capital Project Budgets

• Develop and maintain detailed capital project budgets by project, phase, and cost category.
• Track committed costs, actual spend, forecast to complete, and total project cost.
• Monitor budget changes, contingencies, change orders, and timing shifts.
• Produce capital spend forecasts by month, quarter, and project lifecycle.
• Identify cost overruns, schedule-related budget impacts, and funding risks early.
• Prepare budget, forecast, and reporting packages required by lenders for capital projects.
• Maintain reporting support for draw requests and budget-to-actual reporting.
• Work closely with the Capital Projects team to understand project progress and its financial impact.

Reporting & Forecasting

• Prepare monthly reporting packages for leadership.
• Support executive presentations for leadership, the board, investors, and lenders.
• Build short-term and long-term cash flow forecasts.
• Provide financial analysis and modeling to support business decisions and planning.

Systems & Process

• Leverage SAP S/4HANA data and reporting structures to prepare budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, and capital project spend reports, ensuring planning outputs align with financial actuals.
• Establish standardized templates and timelines for business partners to submit budget requests and project updates.
• Build and improve the processes and reporting cadence that support the full FP&A lifecycle as the organization grows.
• Work closely with Accounting, Capital Projects, R&D, Engineering, and other teams to understand business operations and financial drivers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or a related analytical role.
• Experience owning a budgeting or forecasting process across multiple departments or stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling ability, including building a budget or forecast model from a blank sheet and being able to explain and defend every assumption.
• Strong analytical judgment, including the ability to identify when numbers look wrong and investigate proactively.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a scaling environment, including scoping loosely defined questions and returning structured answers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate and work closely with technical teams, including R&D and engineering, and build a working understanding of the organization’s technology and production process.
• High level of ownership, attention to detail, and sound financial judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with capital project budgeting or project finance in a capital-intensive industry such as manufacturing, industrials, energy, or infrastructure.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable ERP system.
• Experience preparing budget, forecast, or diligence materials for lenders, investors, or a board.
• Experience supporting capital project financing, draw requests, or lender reporting.
• Experience building FP&A processes and systems in a scaling or growth-stage company.
• Comfortable with AI and has incorporated it into work.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $140,000 - $175,000

Location

Redding, California