Senior Corporate FP&A Manager
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About the role
Topcon is seeking a strategic, data-driven Senior Corporate FP&A Manager to play a critical role within corporate finance, focused on global P&L forecasting, enterprise budgeting, and delivering actionable financial insights to executive leadership. This role operates within a complex, matrixed global environment spanning multiple legal entities and business units. The ideal candidate thrives in organizational complexity and combines strong analytical capability with business curiosity. This position goes beyond reporting numbers, it requires proactively analyzing trends, challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and partnering cross-functionally to drive informed business decisions. The Senior Corporate FP&A Manager will collaborate closely with Finance Partners, Business Planning, Product Creation & Delivery, HR, and other functional leaders to support enterprise-wide financial performance. This is a senior-level individual contributor position with no direct reports.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead global forecasting models, including revenue, operating expense, and consolidated P&L planning.
- Drive enterprise planning processes, including annual operating plan (AOP), quarterly reforecasts, and monthly outlook cycles across income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
- Lead global budget consolidation, validate functional submissions, and analyze key financial drivers impacting year-over-year performance.
- Serve as a strategic FP&A business partner to cross-functional leaders, reviewing assumptions, challenging cost plans, and aligning forecasts with enterprise objectives.
- Lead forecasting and consolidation across a matrixed global structure, partnering with multiple legal entities and regional finance teams to ensure alignment and accuracy.
- Perform advanced scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and decision-support modeling for strategic initiatives.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level reporting packages for monthly and quarterly financial reviews.
- Provide comprehensive variance analysis (Forecast vs Plan vs Prior Year), clearly articulating financial drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Proactively identify emerging financial trends and deliver forward-looking insights and recommendations.
- Partner closely with accounting during month-end close to ensure alignment between actual results and forecast expectations.
- Present financial insights to senior leadership with clarity, confidence, and strategic perspective.
- Collaborate with Business Analytics to enhance reporting frameworks, dashboards, and KPI visibility.
- Build and maintain advanced financial models in Excel and enterprise planning systems.
- Translate large, complex financial datasets into clear business narratives that inform executive decision-making.
- Continuously improve forecasting methodologies, reporting cadence, and planning processes to increase accuracy and efficiency.
- Refine driver-based planning models to enhance predictability and performance visibility.
- Guide functional stakeholders on FP&A best practices, financial governance, and discipline.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and corporate finance policies.
- Maintain consistency, accuracy, and integrity across all financial reporting and analysis deliverables.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A and corporate finance.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, corporate finance principles, and accounting fundamentals.
- Experience working with international finance teams and global consolidation processes preferred.
- Proven experience in global forecasting, enterprise budgeting, and financial modeling within a complex organization.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills with experience managing large datasets.
- Experience with ERP and planning systems (SAP preferred).
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Power BI.
- Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, global environment.
- Strategic thinker with str
Additional Information
Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore, California, USA (topconpositioning.com). We design, manufacture and distribute productivity tools for developing a brighter future. Whether cultivating the earth or building upon it, Topcon brings innovation in workflow automation and seamless connectivity of data to construction, geopositioning and agriculture industries focused on developing a sustainable tomorrow. Topcon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or other legally protected status. To learn more about Topcon career opportunities go to www.topconcareers.com .
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