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Remote FP&A Manager jobs

9 open positions in the United States, newest first.

FP&A managers lead financial planning and analysis: the budget, the rolling forecast and the explanation of how the business is performing against both. They manage the planning calendar and often a small team of analysts, and act as finance partner to department heads. They are responsible for the numbers leadership and the board use to steer the company.

About the FP&A Manager role

What the work looks like

  • Run the annual budget process, setting the timeline, templates and assumptions and consolidating department submissions.
  • Update the forecast each month or quarter and explain variances to the CFO.
  • Meet with department heads to review spending and headcount against plan and model their requests.
  • Own the planning model in a tool such as Adaptive or Anaplan and keep it tied to the ledger.
  • Prepare board and investor materials covering results, key metrics and outlook, and review analysts' work.

What employers ask for

  • Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
  • Advanced financial modeling in Excel
  • Planning tools such as Adaptive, Anaplan or Pigment
  • ERP knowledge, commonly NetSuite
  • Business partnering with department leaders
  • CPA or MBA preferred by many employers

Doing this job remotely

Planning tools, ERP systems and spreadsheets are all cloud-based, so the role is commonly remote in distributed companies. Budget season, month-end and board cycles impose fixed deadlines and long weeks. Business partnering is the part that suffers at a distance, and remote managers schedule regular time with the leaders they support.

Where it comes from and where it leads

FP&A managers are usually promoted from senior financial analyst, sometimes after starting in public accounting or investment banking. The path continues to director and vice president of FP&A or finance, and can end at CFO.