Sr. Manager, Finance PMO & Operations (Procure-To-Pay)

Description Position at Conair LLC Position Summary The Senior Manager, Commercial Finance & FP&A will lead the day-to-day financial management and FP&A operating cadence for Conair's Beauty & Home Care division. Reporting to the Senior Director of Finance, this role owns forecasting, planning, close, management reporting, cost stewardship, corporate submissions, and risk-and-opportunity management, while serving as a practical finance partner to Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Demand Planning, Revenue Growth Management, and Corporate FP&A. This is a hands-on leadership role in a complex, fast-paced environment with data and systems constraints. The successful candidate will move comfortably between detailed financial execution and business interpretation — ensuring the numbers are right, identifying what matters, constructively challenging assumptions, and bringing forward options and recommendations rather than just analysis. The role directly manages and develops an Associate Manager and is expected to independently run the core FP&A engine, creating leverage for the Senior Director to focus on strategic and commercial leadership. Key Responsibilities Forecasting, Planning & Financial Cadence Own the end-to-end monthly and periodic forecast process — calendar, assumptions, cross-functional inputs, consolidation, review, submission, and follow-up. Lead annual operating plan development and support long-range planning, scenario modeling, target setting, and executive reviews. Manage weekly / periodic outlooks and maintain a disciplined risk-and-opportunity process. Improve forecast accuracy by identifying assumption gaps, timing risks, mix shifts, and execution dependencies. Ensure alignment between financial plans, commercial assumptions, demand, supply, and cost outlooks. Close, Reporting & Performance Management Lead month-end close analysis and management reporting for the division. Prepare clear variance explanations across sales, gross margin, gross-to-net, operating expenses, and other key P&L drivers. Own recurring executive and corporate reporting packages, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and a clear business narrative. Maintain the financial calendar and coordinate deliverables across Finance and cross-functional partners. Translate performance into material risks, opportunities, decisions, and recommended actions. Cost & Profitability Management Partner with functional leaders to plan, track, and manage divisional costs and productivity commitments. Support customer, category, channel, and item profitability analysis using available systems and manual models. Review the quality and consistency of financial models and profitability builds prepared by the Associate Manager. Identify margin, mix, spending, and productivity opportunities and escalate material gaps. Develop repeatable approaches that reduce manual effort while preserving analytical integrity. Business Partnership & Decision Support Serve as the first-line finance partner for routine and moderately complex business questions. Clarify the business decision behind analytical requests and ensure assumptions and alternatives are understood. Develop scenarios, quantify tradeoffs, and provide a point of view rather than only presenting data. Constructively challenge business assumptions while maintaining strong cross-functional relationships. Escalate major strategic, customer, pricing, portfolio, and investment decisions to the Senior Director with a concise recommendation. Team Leadership & Capability Building Coach and develop the Senior Analyst. Set priorities, delegate work, review quality, and ensure deadlines are met. Build the Associate Manager's technical skills, business acumen, financial storytelling, and independent judgment. Create clear work standards, templates, documentation, and recurring processes. Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, constructive challenge, and solution-oriented leadership. Process & Systems Improvement Simplify and standardize recurring FP&A processes and reporting. Partner with relevant teams to improve data quality, reporting structures, and system usage. Identify opportunities to automate or streamline manual customer, category, and item P&L work. Maintain appropriate controls, reconciliations, and documentation around manual models. Prioritize improvements based on risk reduction, decision value, and capacity created. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA and/or CPA a plus. Approximately 8–12 years of progressive FP&A, commercial finance, or business-partnering experience. Consumer products, consumer durables, retail, beauty, appliances, or comparable CPG experience strongly preferred. Demonstrated ownership of forecasting, annual planning, close, management reporting, and P&L analysis. Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities. Ability to translate complex information into clear insights, options, and recommendations. Track record of influencing cross-functional partners without relying on formal authority. Experience managing or developing finance talent. Advanced Excel skills; experience with SAP, planning tools, Power BI, or other reporting platforms preferred. Comfort operating in environments with imperfect data, evolving processes, and significant manual work. What Sets Successful Candidates Apart Owns outcomes and follows through without repeated direction. Returns with options and a recommended path — not only questions or raw analysis. Balances attention to detail with judgment about materiality. Challenges assumptions respectfully and directly. Anticipates risks and raises them early. Communicates succinctly with senior leaders. Protects the integrity of the financial process while remaining commercially pragmatic. Knows when to resolve independently and when to escalate. Develops others rather than becoming a bottleneck. What Success Looks Like First 90 Days Understands the business model, P&L, calendar, systems, manual models, key stakeholders, and existing pain points; assumes ownership of core recurring processes with structured support. 3–6 Months Runs forecast and close cadence with minimal escalation; establishes effective partnership with key functions; improves review quality and the Associate Manager's development; introduces priority process improvements. 6–12 Months Delivers reliable, recommendation-oriented FP&A leadership; reduces the Senior Director's direct involvement in recurring execution; improves forecast visibility, risk identification, reporting quality, and team capability. Work Environment Working conditions are normal for an office environment. Must be able to sit for extended periods of time. Must be able to use a computer keyboard and view a monitor for extended periods of time. This role requires on-site presence in the Stamford, CT office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays. What We Offer Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans Generous Paid Time Off programs Life and Disability Insurance FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA programs Paid Parental Leave 401(k) with Company Match Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Wellness Programs Paid Volunteer Time Off Complimentary breakfast and lunch in the Stamford office About Conair Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care products, small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes and accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories. Since its founding in 1959, Conair has built a reputation for innovation, quality, and category leadership. Today, Conair products are sold in more than 120 countries through a portfolio of globally recognized brands, including Conair®, Cuisinart®, BaBylissPRO®, Scünci®, TRAVELSMART® by Conair, and Waring®. With more than 1,000 patents worldwide and a long-standing commitment to innovation, Conair continues to develop products that enhance consumers' lives while expanding into new markets around the world. At Conair, we inspire our customers through innovative, high-quality products and iconic brands that make everyday life better. Passionate about this opportunity but do not meet every qualification? We still encourage you to apply. We would love to learn more about your experience and how you could contribute to the future of Conair.

GAQ327R177 While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. We're building a finance function that stays ahead of the curve — leveraging AI, automation, and modern tooling to operate at the pace Databricks demands. The Senior Manager, Accounting, that we are looking to add to the team will lead key areas of our global close, including GL, cloud infrastructure spend, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, cash, leases, and related balance sheet areas. This is a hands-on, player-coach role leading a small team and reporting to the Senior Director of Accounting.  Close quality is non-negotiable. Success in this role requires both strong operational execution and sound technical accounting judgment. You'll be expected to apply U.S. GAAP expertise to complex accounting matters, make well-reasoned accounting conclusions, and ensure the team consistently delivers an accurate, audit-ready close. You’ll own a high-quality close today while helping redesign how the close operates tomorrow, partnering closely with the Transformation team and playing a key Accounting role in our SAP implementation. The impact you will have: * Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across key global accounting areas, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong control execution. * Lead and develop a small team; set clear expectations, coach through the work, and raise the bar on ownership and review quality. * Lead the adoption of AI and automation across your core close areas leveraging tools like Databricks to automate manual calculations, improve accrual accuracy, accelerate balance sheet reconciliations, and reduce close cycle times * Apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex close areas, especially cloud infrastructure spend, vendor spend, usage-based accruals, capitalization considerations, fixed assets, leases, cash, and other accounting areas * Own balance sheet integrity for your areas, including reconciliations, flux analysis, variance explanations, and support for period-over-period movements. * Standardize and govern global accounting processes across your areas, ensuring consistency across entities and regions. * Partner with our Finance Transformation team to redesign processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, and accelerate the close. * Strengthen SOX compliance, documentation, reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual support. * Support external audit requests for your areas with timely, well-supported documentation. * Play a key Accounting role in the SAP implementation, partnering on process design, testing, data readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization for your areas. * Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Procurement, AP, and broader Finance teams to resolve issues at the source. What we look for: * Experience: 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including close ownership across complex global accounting areas such as GL, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, cash, and leases. * Leadership: 2+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop others on technical accounting concepts while maintaining a high-quality, efficient close. * Credentials: CPA, SOX experience, and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required. * Technical Accounting: Strong U.S. GAAP judgment and critical thinking; you can reason through complex facts, identify risks, challenge assumptions, and know where to dig deeper. * Systems & ERP: Experience with ERP systems; SAP experience preferred. ERP implementation experience is a plus. Familiarity with tools like FloQast, Zip, or Emburse is a plus. * The Automation Mindset: Hands-on experience deploying or evaluating AI tools in a finance or accounting context, with proven ability to improve close processes through automation, process redesign, or stronger operating discipline. Familiarity with data platforms like Databricks is a strong plus. * Ownership & Mindset: High ownership, low ego, detail-oriented, fast-moving, direct communicator, and calm under pressure. Open-minded and change-oriented. * Scale & Agility: High-growth technology company experience strongly preferred. Public accounting background preferred.   Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.   Zone 1 Pay Range $199,700—$274,550 USD About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. 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