FP&A Manager - Professional Services POST NUMBER: 484593
Role: Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Salary: $120,000 - $150,000/annually bonus
Location: New York City (Hybrid – 3 days a week onsite)
About the role: Our client is seeking a FP&A Manager to support financial planning, forecasting, and business performance activities across the professional services organization. This role will partner closely with operational and business leaders to provide financial insights, support decision-making, and drive planning processes related to revenue, expenses, and resource allocation.
The ideal candidate will have strong FP&A experience, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to translate business activity into meaningful financial forecasts. Experience supporting professional services, consulting, or services-based organizations with billable hours is highly valuable. Experience with revenue forecasting, specifically billable hours, is a must.
Responsibilities:
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities for assigned business functions
- Develop and maintain financial models that support business planning and resource allocation decisions
- Monitor financial performance and identify key variances, risks, and opportunities
- Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to assist leadership with strategic decision-making
- Partner with service delivery and operational leaders to forecast revenue and utilization trends
- Analyze workforce capacity, project activity, utilization metrics, and billable resource performance
- Develop forecasts related to billable hours, project-based revenue, backlog, and service delivery metrics
- Provide insights on revenue drivers and operational performance to support business planning
- Lead headcount planning and personnel expense forecasting activities
- Partner with business leaders to understand hiring plans, workforce needs, and organizational changes
- Monitor labor-related costs and other operating expenses, providing visibility into budget performance
- Support resource planning initiatives to ensure alignment between staffing levels and business demand
- Prepare recurring financial reports, dashboards, and management presentations
- Deliver insights on business performance, operational trends, and financial results
- Present recommendations to leadership regarding performance improvement opportunities
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across finance, operations, and other business functions
- Identify opportunities to improve financial planning, reporting, and forecasting processes
- Enhance reporting capabilities and financial models to improve accuracy and efficiency
- Support the implementation and optimization of planning and analytics tools
- Contribute to the development of scalable FP&A processes and best practices
Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- 7 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related analytical role
- Experience supporting professional services, consulting, technology services, or other labor-driven business models preferred
- Experience with revenue forecasting, workforce planning, and expense management
- Familiarity with utilization-based or billable-hour operating environments is highly desirable
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills
- Experience developing revenue forecasts based on operational drivers and resource capacity
- Understanding of headcount planning, compensation expense forecasting, and workforce analytics
- Ability to transform financial and operational data into actionable business insights
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities
- Experience with FP&A software, planning platforms, or business intelligence tools preferred
- Familiarity with reporting systems and large data sets
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com.
Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
Representation Notice
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring’s discussions with its Client, Highspring’s understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).
Privacy Notice
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco by Highspring”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.