Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ISACA is a global organization that champions trust in technology and empowers its community with essential knowledge and resources. The Sr. FP&A Manager is responsible for driving business performance through financial planning, budgeting, and delivering actionable insights to support organizational growth. This role involves collaboration with senior leadership to enhance forecasting models and optimize financial outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across profit and cost centers. Develop and maintain driver-based financial models that enhance forecast accuracy, improve visibility into business performance, and proactively identify risks and opportunities. Partner with executive leadership to deliver actionable insights that inform strategic and operational decision-making
- Own financial oversight for assigned business areas, including full P&L accountability and monthly business performance reviews with senior leaders. Analyze financial results, key business drivers, and trends (MoM/YoY), translating findings into clear recommendations that drive performance improvement. Evaluate business cases by assessing ROI, total cost of ownership, and strategic alignment; define success metrics; and partner with business and technology leaders to ensure investments deliver expected financial and operational outcomes
- Lead international revenue reporting and analysis, synthesizing regional and country-level performance into executive-ready insights. Interpret growth trends, variance drivers, and forecast performance to support strategic decision-making across global leadership teams
- Provide financial oversight for strategic investments, including operating expenses and capital expenditures. Monitor performance against plan, analyze variances, and partner with stakeholders to optimize investment outcomes and realign priorities as needed to maximize financial and operational impact
- Lead the ongoing evolution of FP&A capabilities by enhancing automation, reporting infrastructure, and planning systems. Drive improvements in scalability, efficiency, and data transparency across forecasting, reporting, and decision-support processes
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial results during monthly and annual close processes. Serve as a senior finance leader to strengthen cross-functional alignment, governance, and financial discipline across the organization
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and decision support to senior leadership, including special projects such as buy vs. build evaluations, partnership and M&A support, one-time scenario and sensitivity analyses, and cross-functional reporting requests. Deliver clear, data-driven insights to support timely and informed business decisions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including core FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business partnering), with at least 3 years in a senior FP&A, finance manager, or equivalent leadership role
- Strong background in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Driver-based financial modeling and scenario analysis
- Executive reporting and KPI development
- Variance analysis (revenue, margin, operating expenses)
- Experience working in a matrixed or cross-functional environment, partnering with senior leaders/executives
- Proven track record of improving or scaling FP&A processes, ideally including automation, reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.)
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including driver-based forecasting and scenario planning
- Experience with corporate performance management (CPM/EPM) systems and planning processes such as Netsuite, SAP, Workday, etc
- Advanced Excel and strong data analysis skills; ability to build repeatable reporting/forecast models
- Financial modeling and business case development (TCO/ROI, NPV/IRR, sensitivity analysis)
- MBA or Master's degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior FP&A, finance manager, or equivalent leadership role; additional corporate finance experience (e.g., strategic finance, capital allocation, or M&A) a plus; accounting foundation (e.g., 1-2 years in accounting or controllership) strongly preferred
- FP&A/finance systems: CPM/EPM (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Workday, Sage Intact, etc.)
- BI and dashboarding (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker) with ability to communicate insights to executives
- Data fluency: SQL and data modeling concepts; experience automating recurring reporting/forecast processes (e.g., Power Query, scripting, or planning tool automation) and using AI-assisted tools with appropriate validation and controls
- CPA, FPAC, CFA
Benefits
- Benefits Information available below:
[ISACA Career Opportunities and Benefits](https://www.isaca.org/about-us/careers-at-isaca)
Company Overview
ISACA Irish Chapter is an independent, non-profit, global association engaged in the development, adoption, and use of industrial knowledge. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.isaca.org.Company H1B Sponsorship
ISACA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.