Sr Manager, Network Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
About the role
Senior Manager, Network Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Network, Loyalty, and Prepaid businesses
The Senior Manager will also lead and develop a team of two FP&A professionals
Role location
Work model
Your key responsibilities
Business Partnership & Financial Leadership
- Serve as the primary FP&A partner for the
Network, Loyalty, and Prepaid businesses
, developing a strong understanding of each business's strategy, economics, operating model, and key performance drivers.
- Partner with business leaders to evaluate
revenue growth, pricing, margins, client and product performance, operating expenses, and investment opportunities
.
- Translate business strategy and operating plans into actionable financial forecasts, targets, and performance metrics.
- Provide senior leadership with clear, data-driven recommendations on financial performance, risks, opportunities, and business trade-offs.
- Build strong partnerships across
Commercial, Product, Operations, Technology, Accounting, and other Finance teams
to ensure financial plans reflect the latest business assumptions and operational developments.
Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Lead the
annual planning, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning processes
for Network, Loyalty, and Prepaid.
- Develop and maintain driver-based financial models connecting key business drivers, such as
transaction volumes, client activity, pricing, product mix, and operational costs
, to financial outcomes.
- Own monthly performance and variance analysis, identifying underlying business drivers rather than simply reporting financial variances.
- Establish and monitor key financial and operational performance indicators, identifying emerging trends and potential risks or opportunities.
- Ensure forecasts accurately reflect commercial pipelines, client trends, product initiatives, expense investments, and other key business assumptions.
- Develop clear financial narratives for monthly business reviews, forecasts, annual plans, and other senior-management discussions.
Strategic Analysis & Decision Support
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate
growth opportunities, investments, pricing decisions, client economics, cost initiatives, and strategic alternatives
.
- Partner with business leadership to assess the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommend actions that improve revenue, margin, and returns.
- Evaluate busines cases and investment proposals using disciplined financial modeling, sensitivity analysis, and return metrics.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial performance through better pricing, product mix, expense management, operating efficiencies, or capital deployment.
- Provide proactive analysis of risks and opportunities and help leadership understand both near-term financial implications and longer-term strategic impacts.
Network, Loyalty & Prepaid Economics
- Develop reporting and analytical frameworks that provide transparency into the underlying economics of the three businesses.
- Evaluate relationships between
transaction volumes, pricing/yield, revenue, variable costs, contribution margin, and operating expenses
.
- Analyze performance across clients, products, channels, and other relevant dimensions to identify growth and profitability opportunities.
- Partner with Product and Commercial teams to understand pipeline activity, client wins and losses, pricing changes, and volume trends and incorporate those developments into forecasts.
- Support evaluation of new products, partnerships, client opportunities, and investments through financial modeling and scenario analysis.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop two FP&A professionals
, establishing clear priorities and accountability for financial deliverables.
- Build the team's capabilities in financial modeling, forecasting, business partnership, data analytics, and executive communication.
- Establish high standards for analytical rigor, accuracy, responsiveness, and financial storytelling.
- Create development opportunities that move the team beyond reporting results toward generating actionable business insights.
Finance Transformation & Process Improvement
- Work with our Accenture partners and drive continued improvement in forecasting accuracy, planning processes, management reporting, data quality, and analytical capabilities.
- Simplify and automate recurring FP&A activities to create greater capacity for forward-looking financial analysis and business partnership.
- Partner with financial systems, data, and development teams to improve planning functionality, reporting capabilities, and financial data structures.
- Leverage modern analytics, automation, and
AI-enabled tools
to improve forecast accuracy, scenario modeling, and insight generation.
- Support broader Finance initiatives that improve consistency, governance, and analytical standards across the organization.
What you bring
8+ years of progressive experience
in FP&A, corporate finance, business finance, or financial strategy.
- Demonstrated experience leading
planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial performance management
processes.
- Experience managing and developing finance professionals.
- Strong understanding of
P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow dynamics
, with particular strength in translating operating drivers into financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to build complex financial and scenario models and use them to support business decisions.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify the underlying drivers behind financial performance.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate financial information clearly and influence senior business and finance stakeholders.
- Experience partnering effectively across Finance, Commercial, Product, Operations, Technology, and other functions.
- Proficiency with financial planning systems, analytics tools, and data visualization platforms.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting
payments, network, loyalty, prepaid, fintech, or financial services businesses
.
- Experience with
transaction- or volume-driven business models
, including pricing, yield, client economics, and contribution margin analysis.
- Experience within a large-scale, matrixed, publicly traded organization.
- Experience with Hyperion or comparable enterprise financial planning systems.
- Experience with Power BI and other modern financial analytics and visualization tools.
- Experience using automation, advanced analytics, or AI to improve forecasting and financial decision support.
- Experience supporting strategic investment decisions, business cases, capital allocation, or scenario analysis.
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or comparable advanced degree or certification.
- Experience with finance transformation and modernization initiatives.
What success looks like
Forecast accuracy
Business insight
Financial performance
Decision support
Business partnership
Team development
FP&A modernization
Reducing manual processes and expanding the use of automation, analytics, and AI to increase the speed and quality of financial insights.
At FIS, you'll have opportunities to grow your career, collaborate with talented colleagues, and make an impact that reaches far beyond your role. Our benefits include:
- Internal career growth opportunities
- Flexible and creative work environment
- Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
- Professional and personal development resources
- Opportunities to volunteer and support charities
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