Senior Manager, FP&A – IT

Are you a strategic finance leader with a passion for technology and financial planning? Join Crawford & Company as a Senior Manager, FP&A – IT and play a key role in driving financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis for enterprise technology investments and spending.

🎯 What You'll Do

✅ Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and reporting for IT investments and operating expenses ✅ Deliver actionable insights and recommendations to support business and technology decisions ✅ Partner with Finance and IT leadership to drive financial performance and strategic initiatives ✅ Analyze trends, risks, and opportunities across technology spending portfolios ✅ Identify and implement process improvements to enhance financial efficiency and reporting

🌟 Why Join Us?

Be part of an organization where your financial expertise will directly influence technology strategy, innovation, and business success.

📢 Apply today and help shape the financial future of Crawford's technology investments! 🚀💻📊

Responsibilities

• includes activities related to asset management and capitalization, assessing ROI, and tracking spend
• Performs month-end review and analysis of financial results during the monthly accounting close process whereby comparisons are made to planned and historical results, and corrections and/or suggested accrual adjustments are communicated to the Crawford Finance department.
• Maintains, updates, and distributes various management monthly financial reports
• Consults with executives and operational management on financial performance issues including the identification of positive and/or negative performance trends and the formulation of plans of action when needed.
• Provides support to management before, during, and after the annual budget process including answering Company financial policy related questions, estimating revenue and/or expenses, verifying accuracy, and validating assumptions.
• Partners closely with the CIO and his leadership team on staffing, capital spend, company-wide licenses, allocations, etc. Identifies and makes recommendations on savings and efficiencies, drives a continuous improvement mindset and constructively challenges IT investment decisions with an ROI lens.
• Constructs and manages the financial model utilized in conjunction with the Crawford strategic planning and budgeting processes.
• Estimates certain financial reserves assuring the Company is sufficiently provisioned for expected liabilities consistent with GAAP.
• Acts as liaison between management and the Crawford Finance department including the interpretation of financial results and/or policies, and the investigation of extraordinary or unusual activity within monthly financial results.
• Upholds the Crawford Code of Business Conduct at all times.
• Performs other duties as assigned and may be asked to participate in special projects.
• Leads the development and implementation of improved consistent metrics/dashboard reporting using Financial and non-Financial analytics including forward-looking information and drivers
• Drives economic value creation through the identification and leveraging of profitability drivers
• Proactively identifies and manages risks and opportunities
• Position has interaction with all levels and functions of Company with significant exposure and interaction to Finance department personnel and executive management.
• The position also deals with planning in multiple currencies, intercompany transactions and allocations.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor degree in accounting, finance or a technology adjacent field. MBA is preferred.
• 5+ years of corporate financial planning, budgeting, and strategic planning.
• Financial Planning & Analysis background in the insurance/financial service industry is preferred.
• Strong modeling capability to lead the development and implementation of improved consistent metrics/dashboard reporting using Financial and non-financial analytics including forward-looking information and drivers
• Experience with Enterprise planning and Procure-to-Pay applications
• Formulate and track key activities that impact financial performance and support the growth in the businesses
• Confidence and the ability to work with Business management to develop specific action plans to deal with performance gaps
• Business acumen to proactively identify and manage risks and opportunities
• Drive economic value creation through the identification and leveraging of profitability drivers
• Build relationships with Business management in order to develop most likely forecasts/budgets and get timely information on changes to levers
• Clear communication skills

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