Financial Planning and Analysis Director jobs in Milwaukee, WI

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Responsible for independently and objectively analyzing, forecasting and reporting financial results for Northwestern Mutual and subsidiaries. Has interactions with department heads and finance leaders and requires strong business partnerships as analyses, insights and recommendations are presented. This role will be the lead in developing an organization wide expense showback model for Technology costs.

• Serves as a key financial resource on strategic initiatives for the FP&A team including participation in business case development.
• Responsible for managing the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts and reporting of results including variance analysis. Includes developing planning assumptions and understanding and communicating key business drivers of actual results.
• Participates in the setting, monitoring, and reporting targets/outcomes related to key performance indicators, which may include revenue, expense, or other metrics aligned with the company's financial and strategic goals.
• Prepares financial modeling and scenario planning, and performs analysis to identify trends, guide resource allocation and understand business drivers to ultimately drive policyowner value and financial strength.
• Collaborate with FinOps team to perform comprehensive analysis of cloud usage and spend to proactively identify optimization opportunities, trends, and anomalies. Develop consulting plans with application teams to validate opportunities and take action.
• Proactively identifies Cloud Discount Management strategies to minimize cloud unit costs. balancing Cash and Expense impacts.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related degree required.
• CPA or MBA designation is preferred.
• Minimum of 7 or more years of demonstrated financial leadership in accounting, finance or financial reporting and analysis.
• Strong analytical, planning, organization, budgeting, problem solving, negotiation, oral and written communication skills are essential to this role.
• Ability to develop and interpret financial models for complex analysis.
• Attention to detail, with the ability to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Proven ability to develop strong working relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and lead through change.
• Experience in financial support of Technology organizations preferred.

Great pay package, 401K, Company sponsored retirement plan, educational assistance, Performance based incentive pay, Medical, dental and vision insurance, Parental leave, Caregiver time off....and more.

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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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