Senior Manager, FP&A

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Senior Manager, FP&A

Impact and Opportunity

We’re looking for a strategic and influential Sr. Manager, FP&A – Income Statement, positioned one level below the Corporate FP&A Lead, with primary ownership of enterprise income statement planning, forecasting, and performance management. This high-impact Corporate FP&A leadership role partners directly with executive leadership to deliver clear financial insights, drive profitability, and support critical business decisions.

In this role, you’ll own forecasting and performance analysis across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and earnings—turning complex financial data into actionable business strategy. The role partners with Corporate Finance, Business Unit Finance, Accounting, and enterprise functional leaders (HR, Marketing, Legal, IT, Finance) to ensure alignment, accountability, and consistency between operational performance and income statement reporting.

We’re seeking a leader who challenges assumptions, strengthens forecasting accuracy, and drives margin, cost, and financial discipline across the organization. This role drives continuous improvement across models, data, and governance to strengthen operating discipline and enhance executive decision-making. With strong visibility to CFO leadership, it serves as a key pathway to broader Corporate FP&A leadership.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of enterprise income statement forecasting and analysis, including revenue, volume/mix, pricing, gross margin, SG&A, EBIT, and adjusted earnings.
• Drive the monthly close-to-forecast process, coordinating inputs from business and functional finance teams; prepare variance bridges, driver analysis, and performance insights for leadership review.
• Validate assumptions, ensure consistency, and surface risks and opportunities with clear recommendations for escalation to the Corporate FP&A Lead.
• Execute the income statement components of the Annual Operating Plan, quarterly forecasts, and outlook updates in accordance with Corporate FP&A timelines and standards.
• Build and maintain driver-based models, sensitivities, and scenarios to support leadership decision-making and enable rapid response to changing conditions.
• Partner with the Corporate FP&A Lead to align planning outputs to enterprise targets and strategic priorities.
• Prepare executive-ready income statement reporting and narrative commentary, highlighting key drivers, trends, and forward-looking implications.
• Own the enterprise income statement narrative used in leadership discussions, ensuring clarity and consistency across reporting cycles.
• Support leadership discussions by translating financial results into options, trade-offs, and recommended actions, while maintaining clear documentation and analytical rigor.
• Partner with enterprise function leads to align on drivers of performance, improve forecast accuracy, and ensure consistency between financial results and business activity.
• Support M&A activities through financial analysis and scenario modeling, assessing revenue, margin, cost structure, and synergy impacts.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A leadership and cross-functional teams during diligence to evaluate performance, quality of earnings, and alignment to enterprise standards.
• Lead FP&A integration post-close, aligning acquired entities to Gentherm’s financial structure (chart of accounts, reporting hierarchies, revenue/cost classifications) and embedding into close, forecast, and budget cycles.
• Establish and monitor KPIs tied to deal assumptions, ensuring acquisitions are fully integrated into executive reporting with clear visibility to performance, risks, and synergy capture.
• Serve as the primary coordination point across FP&A, Accounting, Sales Finance, and Operations Finance for income statement analytics and reporting. Ensure alignment between management reporting and GAAP results; proactively identify one-time items and structural changes.
• Apply established Corporate FP&A governance standards and escalate exceptions or gaps as needed.
• Partner with Finance Technology Lead to ensure integrity, scalability, and continuous improvement of income statement reporting and forecasting within OneStream and ERP platforms.
• Drive automation, standardization, and documentation of key processes to reduce manual effort and key-person dependency.
• Ensure strong data governance and consistency of key financial definitions and drivers across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience in a complex, multi‑entity environment.
• Strong understanding of financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, and management reporting processes, with ability to analyze and interpret complex financial results
• Ability to effectively plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments while utilizing problem solving techniques when necessary.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable working across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Must demonstrate high ethical and professional standards including maintaining confidentiality of privileged company information

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting public company or SOX‑regulated environments
• Experience with OneStream or similar EPM systems in a power user capacity to support reporting, planning, and analysis
• Prior involvement in large‑scale finance transformation or planning process improvements
• Experience working with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and understanding data flows between financial systems.

Nice to Know

Travel: Limited travel as required (generally <10%)

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop two direct reports within the Income Statement FP&A team, reviewing work product, setting expectations, and strengthening analytical and business partnering capabilities.
• Foster a strong ownership mindset while ensuring work remains aligned to Corporate FP&A priorities and direction.
• Set standards for analytical rigor, timeliness, and executive communication, and build team capability to operate effectively as enterprise business partners.Drive results through disciplined execution, system reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Build organizational capability by standardizing processes and enabling data‑driven decision‑making.
• Champion innovation by leveraging OneStream functionality and emerging finance technologies to improve performance.

Competencies:

Deliver Results

• Understand the mission and output of your team; set SMART objectives and deliver.

Drive Change

• Focus on agility and commitment to continuous improvement; Understand and act on internal and external drivers of change

Build Capability

• Foster a culture of learning and development; Support individual growth through continuous feedback to achieve personal and professional goals

Cultivate Innovation

• Openly embrace, create, implement and support new and innovative ideas, processes and technology that deliver business results.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT (US):

All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best serve our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. Gentherm is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.

Gentherm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building an inclusive culture through Our Network of Engagement (ONE) where we value our differences and work together to positively impact the lives of our employees, customers, and communities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.