Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

American Bath Group | Irving, TX | Onsite Company Overview American Bath Group is a leading North American bathware manufacturer with a broad portfolio of brands, products, manufacturing operations, distribution channels, and business units. The company has grown significantly through acquisition and continues to scale across a complex operating footprint. As the business grows, ABG is strengthening its Corporate FP&A capability to better connect financial reporting, operational performance, commercial expectations, and forward-looking business decisions. This role sits within Corporate FP&A and will support planning, forecasting, reporting, analysis, and business partnership across the enterprise. The Opportunity ABG is adding a Manager, Corporate FP&A to help support the next stage of maturity for Corporate FP&A as the business continues to scale. This role will sit at the intersection of financial planning, business performance, operational forecasting, and cross-functional decision support. As ABG has grown through acquisition, the organization has become more complex across business units, systems, reporting structures, and operating models. The company is now building more repeatable planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis processes to support faster, clearer, and more actionable business decisions. The opportunity is not simply to report results. It is to help connect financial data, operational performance, and business leader input into forward-looking insight around what is changing, what it means, and what decisions should follow. Success in Year One A successful first year will include: Core planning and forecasting processes are more repeatable, scalable, and less dependent on manual Excel-heavy workflows. Vena is meaningfully supported as part of the company’s planning and forecasting infrastructure. Corporate FP&A reporting, MOR support, board-support work, forecast models, and recurring analysis are more clearly owned and better structured. Business leaders receive forward-looking insight around volume, mix, inventory, staffing, capacity, production, and financial performance. FP&A becomes a more useful thought partner to the business, not just a source of numbers. The Mandate The Manager, Corporate FP&A will help convert financial and operational data into business insight. The role will support annual planning, rolling forecasting, reporting, analysis, and process buildout while partnering with leaders across sales, operations, plants, business units, and corporate functions. The role will operate across five core areas: Planning and Forecasting Support annual planning, rolling forecasts, forecast models, assumptions, and forward-looking business views. Vena / Process Buildout Help build templates, workflows, data inputs, and planning mechanisms that move FP&A toward a more repeatable operating rhythm. Corporate Reporting and Analysis Own selected monthly reporting, internal MOR support, board-support analysis, and recurring FP&A deliverables. Business Partnership Work with business leaders to understand performance, pressure-test assumptions, gather meaningful input, and connect financial analysis to business action. Operational Insight Translate volume, mix, inventory, capacity, staffing, and production assumptions into decision-useful analysis. Year One Critical Outcomes Planning and forecasting foundation strengthened The company has a clearer, more repeatable planning and forecasting process that is less dependent on one-off manual work. The role helps build and operationalize practical templates, workflows, and input processes within Vena. Recurring FP&A work absorbed and owned The manager takes ownership of defined reporting, forecasting, planning, and analysis responsibilities that support enterprise FP&A rhythm and business leader decision-making. Forecasting becomes more decision-useful Forecast outputs help answer practical business questions: What volume is coming? What product mix? Where is demand shifting? What does that mean for staffing, inventory, capacity, and production? Business leaders experience FP&A as a partner The role earns trust by bringing useful interpretation, practical recommendations, and strong service orientation to cross-functional leaders. Why This Role Is Hard ABG is a complex, acquisitive, product-based business. The company operates across multiple business units, systems, reporting views, and operational structures. The way the business is managed does not always perfectly align with the way transactional data flows through systems. That means the right person must be comfortable working with imperfect data, manual reconciliation, evolving processes, and cross-functional complexity. They cannot wait for the environment to be fully integrated before adding value. This role requires someone who can build while doing: a person who can create structure, but also personally operate the models, templates, analysis, and reporting needed to support the business. Leadership Profile The strongest candidate will bring a combination of FP&A technical strength, business judgment, operational curiosity, and service-oriented stakeholder partnership. They should be: Business-facing: Able to communicate in business terms, not just finance terms. Hands-on: Comfortable building models, templates, reporting packages, and forecast processes directly. Curious: Interested in finding the “why” behind performance, not just reporting the “what.” Operationally fluent: Able to connect financial results to volume, mix, inventory, production, capacity, and staffing implications. Practical: Able to build useful processes without over-engineering them. Self-directed: Willing to find the string and pull on it rather than waiting for every task to be assigned. Credible with stakeholders: Able to work with sales, operations, plant, business-unit, and corporate leaders in a service-oriented but disciplined way. Experience Requirements Required experience should include: Corporate FP&A, business-unit FP&A, commercial finance, operations finance, or finance business partner experience. Hands-on financial modeling, forecasting, planning, reporting, and variance analysis capability. Experience supporting a tangible product business, ideally manufacturing, distribution, durable goods, building products, industrial products, or adjacent sectors. Ability to connect financial analysis to operational decisions involving volume, mix, inventory, staffing, capacity, production, and margin. Experience working in environments where data, systems, and processes are not fully mature or fully integrated. Demonstrated ability to build or improve processes, models, templates, or planning / forecasting routines. Strongly preferred experience includes Vena, Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, OneStream, or comparable planning / reporting systems. Multi-ERP, BI, or fragmented reporting environment exposure. SIOP, demand planning, sales forecasting, inventory planning, capacity planning, or operational finance exposure. Building products, plumbing, bathware, HVAC, distribution, or adjacent manufacturing experience. Why the Right Candidate Will Be Excited This is a strong opportunity for a builder who wants more than a maintenance FP&A role. The right candidate will have room to shape how Corporate FP&A supports a growing enterprise. They will work close to the business, help build scalable planning and forecasting processes, support system-enabled improvements through Vena, and influence decisions that matter across sales, operations, manufacturing, inventory, and business-unit performance. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be in the work, close to leadership, and central to how a complex business makes better forward-looking decisions. Why This Role Matters As ABG continues to scale, the company needs FP&A to do more than report historical results. FP&A must help leaders understand what is changing, what it means, and what actions should follow. The Manager, Corporate FP&A will play a central role in that shift. The person will help strengthen the company’s planning discipline, improve forecast usefulness, reduce manual dependency, and build a more credible bridge between finance and the business. For the right candidate, this is a chance to help build the next stage of Corporate FP&A at a growing, product-based, acquisition-driven company. #J-18808-Ljbffr