Senior FP&A Manager

Overview

This role supports strategic and financial decision-making for a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) consumer business. The Senior Manager, FP&A leads financial modeling, forecasting, capital allocation analysis, and performance insights to optimize unit economics, guide investment decisions, and support disciplined growth in a capital-intensive, subscription-based environment. The position collaborates closely with executive leadership, commercial, operations, and network teams to drive efficient capital deployment and long-term value creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial modeling and investment analysis to support pricing strategy, product packaging, churn reduction initiatives, fiber network expansion, overbuilds, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Build and maintain models to evaluate capital allocation decisions using methodologies such as net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period, and cohort-based analysis.
• Support capital allocation decisions across competing priorities, including footprint expansion, penetration improvement, retention investment, and infrastructure deployment.
• Incorporate key FTTH business drivers into financial planning and analysis, including penetration, take rate, ARPU, churn, margin, and cost to serve.
• Evaluate market-level fiber builds by cohort, including ramp curves, saturation assumptions, and long-term margin profiles.
• Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to assess investment risk, return trade-offs, and business performance outcomes.
• Own Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) modeling across FTTH sales channels to evaluate acquisition efficiency, payback periods, and long-term profitability.
• Lead Cost per Gross Add (CPGA) analysis across products, channels, and geographies, including cost drivers such as marketing, commissions, installation, promotions, and subsidies.
• Identify opportunities to improve acquisition efficiency while maintaining subscriber quality and long-term value creation.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for the FTTH consumer segment using driver-based assumptions tied to subscriber growth, penetration, churn, ARPU, and capital deployment.
• Partner cross-functionally to align financial plans with operational execution and business priorities.
• Track actual performance against plan, identify key variances, and provide actionable recommendations to improve financial and operational outcomes.
• Analyze key FTTH business metrics and translate operational drivers into financial outcomes and strategic implications.
• Prepare and present executive-level materials to support pricing, growth, capital allocation, and investment decisions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required.
• 6–10+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or related financial analysis roles.
• Experience in investment banking, private equity, or top-tier management consulting strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting capital-intensive, subscription-based, telecommunications, fiber, or similar industries preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of capital allocation, unit economics, and return-based decision frameworks.
• Advanced financial modeling skills with expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience building financial models incorporating NPV, IRR, payback period, sensitivity analysis, and cohort-based analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear, actionable insights.
• Ability to translate operational drivers such as churn, penetration, pricing, and ARPU into financial outcomes and recommendations.
• Strong business judgment and ability to balance analytical rigor with practical decision support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to present to senior executives and influence decision-making across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner effectively with executive leadership, commercial, operations, and network teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in telecommunications, fiber, broadband, or other subscription-based businesses.
• MBA or other advanced business degree preferred.
• Experience supporting consumer growth businesses, capital planning, or infrastructure investment decisions.
• Experience with executive-level financial presentations and board-quality analysis.

Work Conditions

• Remote office environment with regular use of a computer and standard office equipment.
• Occasional travel or in-person meetings may be required based on business needs.
• Standard business hours apply; additional hours may be required during budgeting, forecasting, planning cycles, or major strategic initiatives.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Various voluntary benefits.

Location

• Headquarters located in Charlotte, NC, with hybrid and remote work options depending on role and business needs.
• Preference for hiring talent in the Charlotte area to support a hybrid workforce model.