TE Connectivity’s Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team is responsible for developing, interpreting, and applying financial principles to support planning and oversight. This role is responsible for driving high quality financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis, enforcing financial policies and controls, and translating complex financial data into clear insights, risks, and recommendations that support informed decision making across the organization.
The Manager of FP&A is a prominent position that reports directly to the Director of FP&A and oversees a small team. This role is responsible for providing integral support to the CEO and CFO, Board of Directors, Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy, and other enterprise functions and the business. The manager of FP&A will lead a team that provides accurate and timely business decision support through financial analysis, detailed reporting, and modeling, as part of external earnings guidance, internal forecasting, annual and strategic planning, and other company initiatives.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the quarterly forecasting process in support of external earnings releases, business partnering closely with Investor Relations, SEC, and Segment FP&A teams, providing analysis and messaging internally and externally, including Board presentations
• Lead the strategic financial planning process, business partnering with Corporate Strategy, providing Strat Plan deliverables, analysis, modeling for the CEO / CFO and Corporate Strategy leadership
• Manage the team in providing timely business decision support through financial analysis, reporting and business case modeling.
• Lead a team of analysts responsible for producing timely and accurate business decision support, including ad/hoc requests and special projects
• Business partner with other functions within TE to assist and influence when necessary
Key Competencies for Success:
• Strong level of intellectual curiosity accompanied by a drive to solve complex problems
• Desire and ability to build the conditions for success for their team and those around them
• Comfortable being a ‘professional skeptic’ and challenging the status quo from an informed basis
• High personal accountability and integrity, evidenced through an issues-based resolution approach
Qualifications & Skills:
• Prior experience in FP&A, Operations Finance, or Corporate Finance is strongly preferred
• Effective verbal and written communication with all levels of TE Connectivity management
• Bachelors degree with 3-5 years of managerial experience. CPA and/or MBA preferred but not required
• 5-10 years of increasing responsibility in Accounting/Finance (with familiarity with or exposure to fundamentals of US GAAP)
• Familiarity with TE business unit structure, Management financial reporting
• Ideal candidate would have a working knowledge of, or minimally a familiarity with, TE's key financial and statistical databases and reporting tools, including SAP, SAC and Hyperion