Director, FP&A - Metropolis
Los Angeles, CA
About the Job
The Company
Metropolis is an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision technology to enable frictionless, checkout-free experiences in the real world. Today, we are reimagining parking to enable millions of consumers to just "drive in and drive out." We envision a future where people transact in the real world with a speed, ease and convenience that is unparalleled, even online. Tomorrow, we will power checkout-free experiences anywhere you go to make the everyday experiences of living, working and playing remarkable - giving us back our most valuable asset, time.
The Role
Metropolis is looking for a driven FP&A Director to be a strategic business partner to our Commercial, Aviation, and Risk Management business units. This individual will be responsible for partnering cross-functionally with senior management to build annual budgets and run the budgeting process, manage forecasts, and provide decision support through financial analyses to ensure optimal returns on strategic investments. This is a key position providing guidance on financial and operational matters and building out finance processes across the entire organization. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Finance.
Metropolis is looking for a driven FP&A Director to be a strategic business partner to our Commercial, Aviation, and Risk Management business units. This individual will be responsible for partnering cross-functionally with senior management to build annual budgets and run the budgeting process, manage forecasts, and provide decision support through financial analyses to ensure optimal returns on strategic investments. This is a key position providing guidance on financial and operational matters and building out finance processes across the entire organization. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Finance.
Responsibilities
- Drive business partnership with leaders in the organization and own the annual budgeting process, along with weekly, monthly, and quarterly reforecasts, month-end reconciliations
- Prepare materials for monthly business reviews, including reporting required for operational reviews within each business unit
- Design and refine detailed financial models that forecast and analyze each business to fully understand sources of variance and, ultimately, improve forecast accuracy
- Partner closely with Accounting as a key contributor to ongoing processes and improvements related to budget management and reporting consistency
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting - analyze financial results, distil/synthesize key trends, assess current and future business risk, and communicate key messages to senior management
- Develop and maintain operational KPIs and partner with leaders to provide ROI and ad hoc analysis to support decision-making
- Become embedded with business partners across the company, establishing trust, building relationships and gaining a deep understanding of relevant drivers
Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant finance experience preferred; parking management, facility management or other real estate management services experience strongly preferred
- Experience with M&A and post-merger integration activities required
- Experience partnering with Senior Leadership and ability to influence at all levels of an organization
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with experience developing and delivering presentations
- Expertise in building Excel-based financial models, with an emphasis on aggregating and analyzing data to provide actionable insights
- Manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment while maintaining a high level of precision, working in team environments or independently
- Experience with headcount reconciliation and month-end budget/forecast vs actuals reconciliation
- Experience in both public and private company environments, preferably with high growth
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field required
- Experience with financial systems: ERPs (NetSuite, Great Plains, Oracle, SAP), Planning Software (Hyperion, Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment), Payroll/HRIS (Dayforce, ADP), Expense Software (Concur, Navan, Expensify, Coupa), Salesforce
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and a strong focus on organization and formatting
When you join Metropolis, you'll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The actual base salary offered is determined by a number of variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location of residence and/or place of employment. Base salary is one component of Metropolis's total compensation package, which may also include access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a lucrative stock option plan, bonus plans and more.
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Join us in making a difference as we build our future. Metropolis is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Metropolis prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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