We are looking for an experienced FP&A specialist with strong attention to detail to support strategic financial planning and business performance initiatives for a Long-term Contract position based in Glastonbury, Connecticut. In this role, you will partner with leadership to shape budgets, refine forecasts, and deliver financial insights that inform important business decisions. The ideal candidate brings strong technical finance skills, a sharp analytical mindset, and the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations for executives.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Direct the development of annual budgets, long-range plans, and recurring forecasts for the division to support financial and operational goals.<br>• Evaluate business results by reviewing actual performance against projections and identifying the factors behind key variances.<br>• Create and maintain detailed financial models covering income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, and multiple planning scenarios.<br>• Produce reporting materials for senior leadership, including presentation decks, dashboard summaries, and narrative analysis of financial performance.<br>• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather assumptions, validate financial inputs, and improve the accuracy of planning activities.<br>• Provide forward-looking analysis and scenario planning to help leaders assess risks, opportunities, and potential business outcomes.
We are looking for an experienced FP&A Manager to join the finance team in New Jersey for a contract opportunity with potential for a permanent role. This role will provide hands-on support during a high-priority budgeting cycle while covering key planning and reporting needs for a team with limited bandwidth. The ideal candidate will partner closely with finance leadership to deliver budgeting, analysis, and reporting insights, while helping maintain continuity across core financial planning activities.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead budgeting and forecasting activities by developing detailed financial plans and supporting timely consolidation of business inputs.<br>• Partner with finance leadership to execute assigned planning, reporting, and modeling work that supports near-term and strategic decision-making.<br>• Build, refine, and maintain advanced Excel models that analyze performance across customers, product categories, brands, and sourcing dimensions.<br>• Review large volumes of financial and operational data to organize meaningful reporting across numerous customer and product combinations.<br>• Prepare recurring management reports and ad hoc analyses that highlight trends, risks, and opportunities for the finance team.<br>• Recreate and standardize existing financial reports using available formats, while ensuring consistency and accuracy in output.<br>• Support reporting and planning work within financial planning and budgeting tools, using manual Excel-based reporting when needed to meet deadlines.<br>• Contribute to process efficiency by improving report structure, usability, and overall support for the FP&A function during the assignment.
<p>We are looking for an FP&A Manager to support planning, forecasting, and performance evaluation for a manufacturing and distribution business. This role will turn operational and financial data into practical recommendations that strengthen profitability, improve visibility into costs, and guide business decisions across customer programs and internal operations. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical ability, comfort working with cross-functional partners, and experience in environments where product cost, freight, and margin performance are critical.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Applicants can apply by sending your resume to Joe Ciavardini via LinkedIn or email me at joe.ciavardini@roberthalf</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build annual financial plans and maintain recurring forecasts that reflect expected sales activity, production demand, material spending, labor needs, overhead, and transportation costs.</p><p>• Create and refine profitability analyses at both the business and customer level to identify opportunities for margin improvement and support growth strategies.</p><p>• Evaluate product cost performance by reviewing raw materials, workforce expense, factory overhead, scrap, yield, and other manufacturing cost drivers.</p><p>• Compare standard costing results with actual outcomes, investigate variances, and communicate the financial impact to finance and operations stakeholders.</p><p>• Monitor gross margin trends across products, customers, and sales channels, and provide insights that inform pricing and commercial decisions.</p><p>• Partner with purchasing and operations teams to assess inventory levels, turnover, lead times, freight expense, tariffs, duties, and working capital implications.</p><p>• Support sourcing and production decisions by analyzing vendor options, make-versus-buy scenarios, and the financial tradeoffs tied to supply chain strategies.</p><p>• Prepare monthly management reports covering plant results, distribution performance, and other key operating indicators, and present findings to leadership.</p><p>• Contribute to capital investment analysis for equipment, molds, tooling, and machinery while also improving cost models, reporting automation, and costing system data such as bills of materials and routings.</p>
<p>We're looking for someone who is naturally curious, analytical, and eager to learn the operational side of the business. You don't need to have experience with every aspect of labor analytics today, but you should have the financial foundation, business acumen, and desire to become a trusted advisor to leadership.</p><p>This role is perfect for an FP&A professional who wants to step out from behind the spreadsheet, influence decisions, and accelerate their path toward finance leadership.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead company-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities across multiple business units and operating entities.</p><p>• Create and refine financial models, cash flow outlooks, and scenario analyses to support leadership decisions and strategic planning.</p><p>• Review actual performance against plans, prior periods, and key targets, then highlight trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.</p><p>• Analyze labor-related performance indicators such as billable hours, labor rates, overtime, utilization, productivity, and margin performance.</p><p>• Develop reporting packages, executive dashboards, and KPI summaries that provide clear visibility into financial and operational results.</p><p>• Partner with operational leaders, branch management, accounting, and executives to connect business activity with financial outcomes and recommendations.</p><p>• Support board-level and executive presentations by preparing concise analyses and translating complex data into actionable insights.</p><p>• Assist with acquisition-related modeling, due diligence, and the incorporation of newly acquired businesses into planning and reporting structures.</p><p>• Strengthen reporting accuracy and consistency by improving data quality, standardization, and reporting processes across the organization.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to support strategic decision-making for a CPG client. This role will lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis while partnering with business leaders to translate financial data into actionable recommendations. The ideal candidate brings strong modeling capabilities, a deep understanding of corporate planning, and the ability to improve financial visibility across the business.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Qualified applicants can apply by sending your resume to Joe Ciavardini at joe.ciavardini@roberthalf</u></strong></p><p><strong><u></u></strong></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead the annual budgeting cycle and recurring forecast process to provide accurate financial outlooks for the organization.</p><p>• Build and maintain detailed financial models that evaluate business performance, operational trends, and future scenarios.</p><p>• Analyze monthly and quarterly results, identify key variances, and present meaningful insights to leadership.</p><p>• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop financial plans that align with business objectives and production goals.</p><p>• Prepare management reports, dashboards, and presentations that clearly communicate financial performance and risks.</p><p>• Support long-range planning efforts by assessing revenue, cost, and profitability drivers across the business.</p><p>• Use Adaptive Insights and related planning tools to streamline reporting, forecasting, and financial analysis activities.</p><p>• Recommend process improvements that strengthen planning accuracy, reporting quality, and decision support capabilities.</p>