FP&A Manager

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Candescent

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2024

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Marketing • Fintech

Candescent is a digital-first, intelligence-driven banking platform that helps banks and credit unions modernize account opening, digital banking, branch interactions and operations. It provides cloud-native onboarding and sales tools, fraud and security management, unified data and analytics, marketing/communications, card and money management, developer tools, and a curated marketplace of partner solutions to improve engagement, compliance, and financial wellness for consumer and business customers.

📋 Description

• Lead monthly forecasting, annual operating plan, and long-range planning activities for assigned business areas • Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, and prior-year performance to identify drivers, risks, opportunities, and business implications • Develop executive-ready financial narratives and recommend corrective actions • Build and maintain driver-based financial models for revenue, profitability, investment decisions, and scenario planning • Partner with business leaders to improve forecast accuracy and support financial commitments • Evaluate strategic initiatives and investment opportunities through financial modeling, sensitivity analysis, and ROI assessments • Advise operational leaders across Technology, Product, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Functions, and other departments • Lead monthly business reviews with functional leaders • Support ad hoc analyses, strategic initiatives, and special projects • Serve as FP&A power user and process owner for the enterprise planning platform • Improve planning models, reporting structures, assumptions management, system workflows, and automation • Ensure consistency across ERP, planning systems, BI platforms, and management reporting • Prepare management reporting packages for executives, private equity stakeholders, lenders, and Board meetings • Develop dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics • Support spending governance, investment prioritization, budget discipline, and out-of-budget spending reviews • Analyze vendor spending, contract renewals, and operating expenses for optimization opportunities • Partner with Accounting and Procurement to improve forecasting, accruals, and expenditure visibility

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field • 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A or Corporate Finance • Strong experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and management reporting • Advanced Excel modeling skills, including scenario and driver-based forecasting • Experience with enterprise planning systems such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, or similar platforms • Working knowledge of Power BI • Strong understanding of financial statements and key business performance metrics • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills • Ability to influence financial and non-financial business leaders • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, private-equity-backed environment • Preferred experience in SaaS, FinTech, or software/technology business models • Preferred experience with board reporting, lender reporting, or private-equity ownership environments • Preferred experience implementing or enhancing enterprise planning platforms and reporting processes • MBA, CPA, CFA, or similar professional designation preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work option • Opportunity to work in a forward-thinking technology company transforming digital banking • Potential to manage resources as the team evolves • Collaboration with executive stakeholders, private equity stakeholders, lenders, and Board of Directors