Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Description

Join the CARFAX team as a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

 When was the last time you bragged about where you work? At CARFAX, we do it every day. Why? Because we’re proud to work for a company with a strong mission and trusted brand. We’re proud to work with people who care about what they do and work hard every day to deliver their best. And just announced, the return of the 4-day work week from May 30th through Labour Day! We’ve created the type of company culture where the term, “work- hard play- hard” isn’t just a catchy saying, it’s part of the #CARFAXdifference! 

CARFAX is seeking an experienced Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to our FP&A team. This position will work closely with the Director, FP&A to build financial metrics that will allow the business to make strategic and data driven decisions.  This person will support the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes, monthly financial reporting, and provide insights and analytics around business performance. This position will serve as a key financial business partner to leaders throughout the company. Our ideal candidate is a critical thinker, analytical problem solver, naturally curious, entrepreneurial, performance driven and has the ability to tell a story with data. 

As a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, you will:

• Spearhead a new initiative of building out business-wide metrics that tie back to financial performance
• Partner with business leaders to determine how FP&A can best support them
• Support the process for developing forecasts, budgets and long-term plans based on trends, sales and marketing input and interaction with cross-functional business partners
• Work with large data sets to gain insights to financial performance; tell a story with data
• Prepare monthly financial reporting for management
• Create ad-hoc analyses to drive business decisions, improve efficiency, and maximize ROI
• Continuously look for ways to improve processes; streamline budget and forecast cycles
• Work closely with Accounting during month end, summarize performance, and determine how results will impact future forecasts

To be considered for this role, you will need:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in a financial analytics role
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with large sets of data using SQL, Python, R, or a similar programming language
• Advanced Excel skills required with experience performing in-depth business analytics and building financial models
• A strong understanding of the P&L with the ability to make a correlation between business/client decisions and P&L impacts
• Knowledge of a visualization tool such as COGNOS or Tableau
• Ability to track and prioritize multiple simultaneous tasks
• Excellent written/oral communication skills
• B.S. in business, finance, data analytics or related field

Offers of employment may be conditional upon providing evidence of COVID-19 full vaccination.

About CARFAX

CARFAX, a unit of IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), helps millions of people every day confidently shop, buy, own and sell used cars with innovative solutions powered by CARFAX vehicle history information. The expert in vehicle history since 1984, CARFAX provides exclusive services like CARFAX Used Car Listings, myCARFAX, CARFAX History-Based Value and the flagship CARFAX Vehicle History Report. CARFAX is a nationally recognized top workplace by The Washington Post and Glassdoor.com. Based in London, IHS Markit is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions.

CARFAX is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of CARFAX to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, CARFAX will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We maintain a drug-free workplace. We are a participant in E-Verify.