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About the Role
The Manager, Business Unit Finance Partners leads the team of Business Unit Finance Partners, providing business leaders with clear, timely, and actionable financial insights including KPI performance, headcount, and capital expenditures against budget and prior year. The team also builds annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Business Unit Finance Partners to ensure consistent, high-quality support.
- Own the monthly Business Unit performance review process, presenting financial and operational data to leadership.
- Own the annual budget and quarterly re-forecast for business units, collaborating with business unit leaders and cost center managers.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business unit leaders, translating financial data into actionable insights and driving corrective actions.
- Manage and develop a team of two to four Business Unit Finance Partners, setting priorities and providing coaching.
- Serve as the senior finance partner to business unit leaders and represent their financial picture to senior finance leadership.
- Partner with IT to ensure accurate and consistent financial data flow through the ERP system.
- Own the monthly Business Unit performance review package, ensuring timely delivery and consistent reporting.
- Coach partners on presenting monthly reviews, facilitating discussions on variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Track headcount and hiring progress against the approved plan and quantify the impact on the forecast.
- Prepare monthly executive summaries and support quarterly business reviews and board-level materials.
- Standardize reporting templates, definitions, and commentary across business units for consistent performance views.
- Maintain a strong command of financial data and be able to explain any element of the team's analysis.
- Review and approve team deliverables before distribution, escalating issues as needed.
- Automate recurring reporting elements using Tableau, Prophix, and AI tools to focus team time on analysis.
- Lead the annual budgeting process and quarterly re-forecast cycles for business units.
- Own the planning calendar, templates, and assumptions package, ensuring timely deliverables.
- Drive the company-wide planning process through the FP&A system (Prophix) and leverage ERP for reporting.
- Act as the business owner of the planning models.
- Track forecast accuracy by business unit and drive improvements in assumptions and processes.
- Support long-range planning and business unit strategy with financial modeling and scenario analysis.
- Drive system guardrails to improve the reliability of sales and COGS data.
- Design new check processes and corrective actions.
- Lead or support ad hoc projects and financial analyses, such as pricing, make/buy decisions, investment cases, and new product line reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting required.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A or finance business partnering.
- At least 3 years supporting general managers or business unit leaders directly.
- 3+ years of team management experience.
- Prior people management experience is required.
- Experience coaching analysts into business-facing partners is strongly preferred.
- Experience in a manufacturing or hardware environment strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of standard costing, manufacturing variances, and product line margin analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to build and deliver clear, insight-driven financial presentations to non-finance executives.
- Hands-on experience owning an annual budget and rolling forecast process, including headcount and CapEx planning.
- Strong grasp of business financials and the drivers of sales, margin, and operating expense in a product company.
- Strong MS Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience with BI and/or planning tools.
- Familiarity with Infor / e-Finance, Prophix or Tableau is a plus.
- Genuinely curious about the business and enjoys being close to it and collaborating with business leaders across functions.
- Track record of developing strong relationships, influencing thinking, and driving consensus among a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to challenge business leaders constructively.
- Demonstrates good personal judgment and effectively handles tasks under pressure.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to operate comfortably, independently, and effectively in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional, rapidly changing environment.
- Strong analysis and problem-solving skills; able to get to the root cause of a variance and recommend actions.
- Positive attitude and excitement to contribute and grow.
- Discretion to deal with confidential information.
- Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives.
- Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.
- Occasional travel, some overnight, as required.
Skills
- FP&A
- Finance Business Partnering
- Team Management
- Financial Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial Presentations
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- BI Tools
- Planning Tools
- Infor / e-Finance
- Prophix
- Tableau
- Standard Costing
- Manufacturing Variances
- Product Line Margin Analysis
- Relationship Building
- Influencing
- Consensus Driving
- Problem-Solving
- Communication Skills
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- 7+ years progressive experience
- 3+ years team management
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting
- MBA, CPA or CMA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $150,000 per year
About the Company
- Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications.
- With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications.
- Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.
- Mini-Circuits’ sells our products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive web site.
Equal Opportunity
- Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.