Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Categories

Accounting & Finance

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all. 

The Stand Together community works with some of the country's boldest and most innovative social changemakers. Our goal is to remove the barriers that prevent people from achieving their full potential. Working across the political spectrum, impacting communities across the country, we're making positive change a reality by uniting diverse voices on the issues that matter most. 

Stand Together seeks a Finance Manager to partner with community leaders and their teams to provide financial visibility and insights into their operations.
 
Stand Together provides a platform that connects and empowers social entrepreneurs tackling the major challenges of our time. This platform unites social entrepreneurs to accomplish far more than they otherwise could. We help them transform their effectiveness, increase their efficiency and lower their costs, and dramatically scale their operations. 

Your Responsibilities Include

  • Work closely with capability leaders to formulate their short-term and long-term financial and strategic plans
  • Provide forecasts, budgets and variance analysis. This includes providing guidance to other analysts in their forecasts
  • Develop and maintain financial reports and dashboards, providing internal customers with trends and key insights used for strategic decision making and driving performance
  • Relationship building with external clients, team members and other capabilities within the community
  • Provide on-demand support for financial projects, collaborate with teams across the community to actively seek and identify opportunities to add value
  • Identify creative approaches to solve business and technical problems
  • Use various tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance to help business leaders make more informed decisions and evaluate their effectiveness
  • Drive transformational process improvement within FP&A for operational efficiency and effectiveness

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • 5+ years of FP&A experience or related field
  • Demonstrates strong abilities and a proven record of success in the following areas:
  • Client service and a thorough understanding of the complexity of managing multiple partnerships
  • Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to develop insights valuable for decision making
  • Self-starting and able to drive and lead with strong sense of urgency
  • Building, revamping, and/or enhancing processes to improve operational efficiencies
  • Providing recommendations and insights for strategic and operational decisions
  • Effective time-management and prioritization skills to manage workload
  • Expert in financial forecasting, modeling, drill-down and variance analysis
  • Proficiency in financial applications. Adaptive is a plus
  • Technical savvy, advanced financial modeling capabilities in Excel and proficiency in PowerPoint
  • Enthusiasm for Stand Together's vision

What We Offer

  • A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans – especially the least fortunate.
  • A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
  • Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
  • Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits.
  • Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
  • Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro).
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.   
  
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.    
  
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.