Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Remote Eligible)
Americhem · Grand Rapids, MI, US ·
- Category
- Management
Americhem is a globally recognized designer and manufacturer of custom color masterbatch, functional additives, engineered compounds and performance technologies. Our business is built around delivering Performance, Solutions and Trust through close collaboration with customers seeking to optimize their polymer products. All of our products are backed by complete technical support that ensures quality, reliability, and value.
We are seeking a Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to support Americhem’s global planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision-support agenda. This hands-on role turns financial and operational information into clear analysis, recommendations, and actions, connecting business results to the operating drivers behind them. The Manager independently owns key FP&A deliverables and works closely with the Global FP&A Director to support sound, timely decisions across the business.
This position is well-suited for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys building models, validating data, translating complex analysis into clear business insights, and partnering across functions. The ideal candidate combines strong financial modeling and business judgment with a continuous-improvement mindset and practical experience using technology, automation, and AI to improve FP&A processes.
Responsibilities
- Independently own assigned components of the annual budget, monthly forecast, long-range plan, and scenario planning processes, including data collection, assumptions, analysis, consolidation, and executive-ready communication.
- Build and maintain multi-scenario models and what-if analyses that show the financial impact of changes in volume, price, mix, productivity, labor, material costs, capital, and other operating drivers.
- Own timely and accurate monthly and quarterly performance reporting, highlighting key results, drivers, risks, and actions for business leaders.
- Develop clear performance narratives that explain what happened, why it happened, what is likely to happen next, and what management should do about it.
- Partner with functional leaders to define KPIs, improve driver-based planning, establish accountability, and track corrective actions.
- Assess capital investments, major sales programs, new business opportunities, and strategic initiatives; provide recommendations grounded in returns, risk, cash, and strategic fit.
- Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for FP&A leadership, the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, and other stakeholders.
- Improve the integrity, consistency, and usability of management reporting by aligning definitions, data sources, ownership, and controls.
- Identify and implement practical ways to simplify, standardize, digitize, and automate recurring reporting and analysis using existing tools.
- Use AI responsibly to accelerate analysis, reporting, variance explanations, trend detection, forecasting workflows, documentation, and repetitive finance activities while maintaining human review, confidentiality, and data integrity.
- Maintain a close connection to the operation by partnering with business and functional teams to understand the drivers behind the numbers and validate insights against operating reality.
- Work with the Global FP&A Director to continuously improve FP&A processes, tools, and communication.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field required; Master’s preferred.
- 4–8 years of progressive FP&A, finance, accounting, or analytical experience, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis.
- Proven ability to build integrated financial models and evaluate pricing, customer opportunities, capital investments, capacity decisions, and other strategic initiatives.
- Manufacturing, industrial, multi-site, or similarly complex operational experience strongly preferred, along with advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and experience with ERP/BI/planning systems such as Hyperion or Power BI.
- Demonstrated success in process improvement, automation, and digitization, with practical and responsible use of modern AI tools in finance workflows.
Desired Qualities/Attributes
- Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to connect financial analysis to operational decisions and business outcomes.
- Hands-on, curious, and willing to do the detailed work required to understand the business and produce high-quality analysis.
- Bias for action with the judgment to prioritize what matters and move work forward with urgency.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners without direct authority.
- Highly organized and adaptable, with the ability to manage competing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual deadlines.
- Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual rigor, and attention to detail without losing the big-picture perspective.
- Forward-thinking, process-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement, responsible AI adoption, and practical automation.
- High ethical standards, discretion, accountability, and respect for confidential financial and business information.