Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Administrative Seattle, Washington Arlington, Virginia


Description

Northwest Center has been a vendor at Amazon for over 20 years. The NWC-@-Amazon division has grown to over 360 employees, providing a wide variety of customer service support on Amazon’s thriving campuses throughout the nation. Our team works in a unique, fast-paced corporate setting on Amazon’s campuses to provide first-rate customer service-focused programs to our clients while also generating revenue that funds Northwest Center’s mission of inclusion.

 
Position Title: Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Locations: Seattle, WA or Arlington, VA
Starting Range: $98,550 - $111,363 per year | Full Range: $98,550 - $124,176 per year 
 
As our Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, you will have the opportunity to influence, learn from and partner with a high-performing team whose needs span across all levels of the organization from executive to individual contributor. You have a passion for data and analysis and the technical and analytic skills to provide data driven insights to the team and drive solid business decisions from inception to completion. You have a strong background in working across an organization leading the budgeting and forecasting process and drilling down to find the drivers behind variances. 
 
We are seeking a candidate with a strong financial management skillset, an analytical mindset, and robust business acumen. You have excellent judgment in all situations to protect and grow Northwest Center's reputation as a partner and valued vendor of our client. If you’re a strong financial leader with adept communication skills who thrives off delivering excellent results and adapting to changing priorities, we invite you to apply! 
  
What we can offer:                   
  • Competitive and affordable Medical (including hearing & hardware coverage!), Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
  • 17 Accrued Paid Time Off Days Annually
  • Additional 11 Annual Floating Holidays, Parental Leave, and Paid Compassion Leave
  • Retirement 401(K) with a company match
  • Company-Provided Orca Pass – Unlimited use
  • Employment Assistance Program (EAP) via Spring Health
  • Mental Wellness Program including six free therapy sessions per year
  • Opportunity for career development with our NWC Mentorship Match program
  • Physical Wellness Reimbursement Program - $25/month
  • Student Loan Contribution Program - $50/month
  • Pet Insurance Discount Program

Check out the entire list of benefits Northwest Center has to offer here: http://www.nwcbenefits.com/               

 

Please submit your resume to your applications. Cover letters strongly preferred

 
What You Will Do
Financial Management      
  • Act as financial owner for the @Amazon team ensuring the accuracy of our financial information and provide reporting and analysis to both NWC and Amazon key stakeholders including executive leadership. 
  • Serve as Finance POC for our Northeast division, responsible for partnering with senior leaders to manage all financial aspects of the business
  • Partner with leadership to manage the annual budget process and ensure functional plans and corporate goals are in alignment. Work to improve the budget process, making it more adaptive and dynamic, with the ability to report at a granular and summary level as needed.
  • Communicate financial information and track program budgets, forecasting potential changes and working with leadership to mitigate any shortfall to budget. Identify variances and what is driving them and work with stakeholders to keep the team on track to meet financial objectives.
  • Manage the monthly financial close, including accruals, reclasses, and expense classifications.
  • Own the Amazon Purchase Order (PO) process, ensuring each PO budget is on track and working with leadership on amending and creating new Purchase Orders as needed. 
  • Perform monthly reconciliation of program budget spends, contact and hold vendors accountable to agreed upon service levels. 
  • Monitor and establish financial controls for the division including creation of a spend authority matrix.
  • Manage our various systems, including but not limited to banking/credit cards and our Amazon Business account used for supplies purchases.
Financial Reporting     
  • Provide financial leadership to the NWC organization by supporting the creation of monthly financial reporting and analysis, monthly and quarterly business reviews, and working with internal stakeholders and our clients/customers to identify and track KPI’s.
  • Create easy to understand dashboards and visualizations to effectively communicate financial information to the team and keep them on track to achieve financial goals.
  • Manage and track headcount reporting and analysis and partner with managers and the recruiting team to track vacancies and quantify revenue/profit impact.
  • Collaborate with corporate FP&A team members to drive process improvements and share best practices.
  • Develop new business proformas and provide ad-hoc reporting/analysis as requested.
Trusted Advisor to Leadership    
  • Provide timely and accurate information and data-driven insights on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and standardized business metrics. 
  • Ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including to executive leadership
 
About Us
Northwest Center (NWC) is an ambitious, dynamic, and driven social enterprise organization that operates successful businesses to drive societal change. We are focused on our collective North—a world where all children have equitable access to education, and the employment rate for people with disabilities is the same as the general population. Since its inception in 1965, Northwest Center has built and acquired a portfolio of commercial businesses to fuel our mission of disability inclusion and enable our journey North.
         
Who You Are     
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • 5+ years of experience in an FP&A role in a high performing program environment
  • Intermediate level Excel skills at minimum with solid understanding of pivot tables, v-lookups, and sumifs; able to work with data to provide value added analysis and insights to leadership.
  • Hands-on experience in a financial planning software (Preferred experience in Vena).
  • Growth Mindset
  • Organization, planning, and business skills alongside strategic thinking ability; able to prioritize multiple, sometimes competing projects and manage time effectively
  • Excellent attention to detail with focus on providing timely and accurate information.
  • Keen understanding for how to deliver excellent results within a talented team, as well as being able to drive change across other organizations
  • Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities and generate innovative solutions in an extremely fast-paced environment
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals, across globally-distributed teams 
  • Experience in budget management and oversight over company P&L and operational planning to meet financial targets preferred
  • Experience in Capacity Planning preferred
  • Detailed-oriented and thorough, with the ability to see the “big picture”
  • Regularly seeks new and improved methodologies for enhancing the effectiveness of the organization. Employs imagination and creativity in the application of duties and responsibilities. Most importantly, you are not averse to change.
  • Master’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • The ability to work nights and weekends as needed
  • This is a dog-friendly environment with over 1,000 dogs on campus. Individuals with dog allergies or those who do not particularly care for dogs may not be the best fit    
 
Northwest Center is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected]
 
At Northwest Center, we do not just accept diversity and inclusion — we celebrate it, support it, live it, and flourish in it to benefit our employees, the community, and our clientele. We believe that our strength lies within our diversity and the forward motion towards a day when people of all abilities can learn and work together.
    
We believe that curiosity and critical thinking are essential to the dialogue and improving decision-making, planning, resource allocation, and how we treat others. Our goal is to create and implement more equitable practices, policies, and culture. To be equitable means to value and respect individuals from all cultural backgrounds, genders, races, identities, and abilities. Northwest Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veterans’ status.
  
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