Senior FP&A Analyst, Generac Home

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Summary

The Senior FP&A Analyst serves as a key finance team member providing financial planning and analysis support for the Generac Home business group, Generac’s largest business group. The role provides contributions on all aspects of the finance team to support Generac’s ongoing growth and success.  This position will play an important role on both the finance & accounting side of the business group splitting their duties between the two, with key responsibilities in P&L ownership for technical & customer service (forecast & variance analysis), rebate/promotion program administration, sales channel & customer-level reporting & analysis, and month-end accruals. The Senior FP&A Analyst will work closely with finance leaders of the business group, Generac Home’s business group’s executive leadership, as well as corporate accounting. In addition, this role will work with the business group’s data analytics team to build out reporting in PowerBI.

Essential Duties

- Strategic business partner to our technical & customer service team building quarterly revenue and opex forecasts, providing monthly profitability outlooks, as well as preparing monthly P&L and detail cost center variance analyses. 

- Owner and administrator of the sales rebate program authorization and workflow process. Works closely with the commercial team and contract management team to review rebate program submissions for accuracy and merit, ensuring timely creation and approval of programs. Uses a continuous improvement mind-set and applies critical thinking skills to provide value-added insights to the business group finance leaders as well as improve the sales rebate and promotion program authorization and workflow process.

- As part of month end close, own certain judgmental rebate and sales accruals, independently performing the analysis, maintaining the rebate and sales accrual files creating the monthly journal entry, and completing the monthly reconciliations for sales liability accounts.

- Maintain and improve the financial reporting for the Retail sales channel including customer-level reporting. Monthly, lead meetings with the VP Retail Sales to review the channel P&L to drive actionable results that help deliver business growth and improve profitability.

- Create, update, and maintain several monthly key reports & analysis used by business group leaders, as well as certain schedules included in the business group’s monthly financial reporting package.

- Assist with the implementation, data migration, and reporting used in PowerBI. Work with the Data Analytics team to build new reports to be used by the CP Finance team and business group leaders to analyze business performance.

Other Duties as Assigned

- Ability to understand the complex global business of Generac organized around several business groups, including end markets, competitive environment, industry peer group and general economic indicators that are important to Generac.

- Identify knowledge gaps and develop tools, processes, and models to provide meaningful information to business group leaders.

- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous process improvement. Identify and eliminate non-value-added activities and streamline processes.

- Support the other members of the Generac Home finance team as needed on ad-hoc and special projects that arise in this fast paced and growing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft applications, with intermediate to advanced Excel skills with the ability to create, understand, and maintain complex financial models and analysis;
• Previous experience with SAP, PowerBI, and OneStream;
• Strong understanding of financial statements including the ability to analyze a P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and general ledger with minimal oversight;
• Ability to manage small-to-large scale projects with cross-functional teams to drive actionable results;
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment;
• Able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization (written, verbal, presentation, and listening);
• Strong project management, organizational, business mathematical and analytical skills with intense attention to detail with accuracy and consistency;
• Financial forecasting experience;
• Public accounting experience;
• CPA Certification;
• Previous experience working for a publicly traded company.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong analytical mindset
• Ability to effectively utilize basic Microsoft products such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
• Strong business mathematical and analytical skills with intense attention to detail with accuracy and consistency
• Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and ability to read legal documents (leases/contracts)
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel experience

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

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