A Robert Half Management Resources client is seeking an experienced FP&A Consultant to support a growing organization through an acquisition and related strategic initiatives. Reporting to the FP&A Manager, this consultant will play a key role in financial modeling, forecasting, capacity planning, and analysis of large, complex datasets. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical capabilities, the ability to evaluate and improve existing models, and experience supporting business transformation, growth, or integration initiatives. Estimated at 3-6 months. 100% remote<br><br>Key Responsibilities<br>Develop, maintain, and enhance complex financial models to support strategic decision-making.<br>Review, troubleshoot, and improve existing forecasting and planning models for accuracy and scalability.<br>Build and maintain capacity planning models to support operational and workforce planning.<br>Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.<br>Perform scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling to evaluate business opportunities and risks.<br>Analyze large datasets and translate findings into actionable business insights.<br>Utilize SQL to extract, validate, and analyze data from multiple sources.<br>Support acquisition and integration activities, including financial analysis, synergy tracking, and reporting.<br>Partner with Finance, Accounting, Operations, HR, and executive leadership to develop key performance metrics and reporting.<br>Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports, dashboards, and management presentations.<br>Identify process improvement opportunities and recommend enhancements to planning, reporting, and analytics capabilities.<br>Qualifications<br>5+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or related experience.<br>Advanced financial modeling experience required.<br>Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.<br>Experience developing driver-based forecasting models.<br>Hands-on experience with Adaptive Planning (Workday Adaptive Planning) preferred.<br>Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.<br>Strong Excel and financial systems expertise.<br>Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, business transformations, or other strategic initiatives preferred.<br>Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.<br>Excellent communication and business partnering skills.<br>Preferred Experience<br>Capacity planning and resource modeling.<br>Scenario and sensitivity analysis.<br>KPI development and performance reporting.<br>Financial systems optimization.<br>Data validation, reconciliation, and reporting automation.<br>Integration planning and post-acquisition reporting.<br>Executive and board-level reporting support.<br>Process improvement and financial planning transformation initiatives.<br>Ideal Candidate<br><br>The successful consultant will be a hands-on finance professional with strong modeling and analytical capabilities who can quickly assess existing planning processes, identify improvement opportunities, and provide actionable insights to leadership during a period of growth and organizational change. This individual will be comfortable working with large datasets, enhancing existing models, and supporting acquisition-related initiatives while partnering effectively across the organization.
We are looking for an experienced Accounting Manager to lead day-to-day accounting operations in Carlsbad, California while serving as the senior finance leader on site. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing strategic oversight with direct execution, from managing close activities to shaping accounting practices and reporting. The role works closely with company leadership and provides meaningful influence over financial controls, compliance, systems, and business support.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process and ensure accurate, timely financial reporting.<br>• Prepare financial statements and consolidated reporting materials for the parent organization in alignment with its reporting calendar and requirements.<br>• Manage accrual-based accounting activities, including revenue treatment, inventory accounting, credit loss reserves, and general ledger accuracy.<br>• Review and improve the chart of accounts and strengthen accounting processes to support clear, efficient financial reporting.<br>• Develop materials and analysis to support leadership presentations for recurring board meetings.<br>• Oversee internal controls activities, including testing, corrective action follow-up, audit coordination, and maintenance of accounting policies and procedures.<br>• Administer tax-related accounting responsibilities such as multi-state sales and use tax compliance, exemption certificate tracking, and coordination with external tax advisors.<br>• Supervise core transactional functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, credit administration, and payroll processing.<br>• Act as the business owner for QuickBooks Enterprise, including system setup, user access, reporting, close management, and coordination on integrations, backups, and upgrades.<br>• Partner with cross-functional teams on budgeting, forecasting, cash planning, pricing analysis, margin review, inventory costing, and evaluation of future accounting or ERP systems.
<p>A growing consumer products company in Carlsbad is looking for a <strong>Junior Financial Analyst</strong> to join its Finance team. This is a strong opportunity for someone with a degree or early professional experience in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business who enjoys working with data and wants exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.</p><p><br></p><p>You'll work closely with Finance and Operations to pull together financial information, identify trends, and help leadership understand where the business is performing well and where there may be opportunities to improve.</p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Assist with monthly financial reporting and analysis</li><li>Prepare recurring Excel reports and financial schedules</li><li>Compare actual results against budgets and forecasts</li><li>Research expense and revenue variances</li><li>Assist with annual budgeting and forecasting</li><li>Gather financial information from Accounting and Operations</li><li>Maintain financial models and reporting files</li><li>Track departmental spending and key performance metrics</li><li>Assist with month-end reporting and data validation</li><li>Prepare presentations and summaries for management</li><li>Support ad hoc financial analysis and special projects</li></ul>
<p><strong>For the Excel person who wants to turn numbers into a career.</strong></p><p>A growing consumer products company is looking for a <strong>Junior Financial Analyst</strong> to support its Finance team. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who has strong Excel skills and wants exposure to <strong>budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis</strong>. You'll work with Finance and Operations to understand what the numbers are saying—and help leadership make better decisions because of it.</p><p><strong>What you'll work on</strong></p><ul><li>Prepare recurring financial reports and dashboards</li><li>Compare actual results against budgets and forecasts</li><li>Analyze revenue and expense variances</li><li>Assist with monthly reporting</li><li>Support annual budgeting and forecasting</li><li>Build and maintain Excel-based financial models</li><li>Track departmental spending</li><li>Gather financial information from multiple departments</li><li>Research unusual trends and discrepancies</li><li>Assist with month-end reporting</li><li>Prepare presentations and summaries for leadership</li><li>Support ad hoc financial analysis projects</li></ul>
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to support program finance activities for a high-technology engineering environment in Carlsbad, California. This role works closely with program leadership and cross-functional teams to strengthen cost visibility, improve forecast accuracy, and provide insight into program financial performance. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical judgment, a proactive approach to risk identification, and the ability to translate complex financial data into clear business recommendations.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead the preparation and ongoing refinement of estimates at completion by evaluating incurred costs and building forward-looking, time-phased cost projections.<br>• Assess program financial results against plans and forecasts, then communicate key drivers, trends, and variances to stakeholders in a timely manner.<br>• Partner with teams across program management, supply chain, accounting, operations, and engineering to support execution, resolve financial issues, and improve decision-making.<br>• Establish and maintain program cost baselines that align budget expectations with schedule performance across multiple programs.<br>• Produce recurring and on-demand financial reports using available data sources to support internal reviews and external reporting needs.<br>• Identify financial risks and favorable opportunities, recommend response strategies, and help drive actions that improve program outcomes.<br>• Support annual operating plans and forecast cycles by developing revenue, margin, and cost assumptions grounded in program data.<br>• Contribute financial expertise during proposal activity, audit support, fact-finding exercises, and negotiation preparation as needed.<br>• Provide guidance to less experienced analysts through work review, knowledge sharing, and coaching on financial practices and procedures.
We are looking for a Risk Analyst to support risk oversight and reporting activities for an energy trading portfolio in San Diego, California. This position focuses on analyzing market exposure, validating trading activity, and helping ensure risk reporting reflects the economic reality of both standard and complex transactions. The role works closely with trading, settlements, scheduling, accounting, and operations teams to strengthen control processes and support informed decision-making.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Analyze commodity positions and price exposure independently, producing clear reporting that supports policy compliance and aligns with established risk tolerance.<br>• Review market, operational, and reporting concerns, escalate exceptions promptly, and present practical recommendations to address identified issues.<br>• Perform daily reconciliation and validation of trading activity, pricing inputs, and system records to confirm accurate risk representation.<br>• Assess portfolio exposure across transactions and develop a strong understanding of key drivers affecting valuation and performance.<br>• Examine structured and non-standard deals to verify complete capture of economic terms and confirm valuations are accurately reflected in risk reporting.<br>• Compare deal valuations generated by risk systems with front-office expectations and investigate material differences to support accurate summaries.<br>• Prepare reconciliation analysis linking initial deal assessments with accounting outcomes to confirm reporting consistency and financial accuracy.<br>• Partner with settlement, scheduling, trading, and operations teams to coordinate profit and loss actualization and maintain end-to-end data integrity.<br>• Contribute to the design and enhancement of reporting tools and serve as a knowledgeable resource for trading and risk management systems, including support for accurate deal entry and valuation oversight.
We are looking for an experienced VP of Finance to lead the financial strategy and performance of our manufacturing business in San Diego, California. This executive will translate complex financial data into clear business insights, helping leadership make confident decisions in a fast-moving, family-owned environment. The ideal candidate brings deep manufacturing finance expertise, strong commercial judgment, and a hands-on approach to forecasting, profitability, and cash management.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Provide executive leadership with clear analysis of business performance, including key drivers, emerging trends, and recommended actions to improve results.<br>• Direct the company’s budgeting and forecasting processes across revenue, production, staffing, materials, capital needs, cash flow, and profitability, adjusting outlooks as business conditions evolve.<br>• Monitor financial and operational indicators to identify potential risks related to liquidity, margins, pricing, collections, inventory levels, capacity constraints, or lending compliance.<br>• Lead and strengthen cost accounting practices to improve the accuracy of product costing, labor and overhead allocation, inventory valuation, and margin reporting by customer and product line.<br>• Guide the financial review of estimates and quotations by evaluating labor assumptions, material inputs, overhead, outside services, inflation exposure, tooling, risk, and target returns.<br>• Partner with estimating teams to validate pricing models, compare quoted assumptions to actual performance, and drive continuous improvement in the estimating process.<br>• Oversee the financial evaluation of long-term customer agreements, including pricing terms, escalation mechanisms, volume expectations, margin impact, working capital demands, and business risk.<br>• Manage the finance and accounting organization, including leadership of the Controller function, while clarifying responsibilities, strengthening structure, and ensuring accountability across the team.<br>• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, month-end close, inventory accounting, internal controls, audit support, banking relationships, insurance coordination, and statutory filings.<br>• Collaborate with operations, sales, engineering, supply chain, quality, and human resources to improve planning, accountability, and overall business performance.
We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to lead the assessment and modernization of a complex, high-volume payables operation in Solana Beach, California. This Long-term Contract opportunity will focus on improving efficiency, strengthening controls, and building a scalable automation approach across 19 entities. The consultant will partner with finance, operations, IT, and leadership teams to redesign workflows, recommend practical technology solutions, and support implementation of a more effective AP function.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Review the current accounts payable process across multiple entities and identify areas where automation can reduce manual effort and improve consistency.<br>• Analyze invoice intake, approval routing, vendor administration, payment activity, and reporting practices to uncover operational gaps and enhancement opportunities.<br>• Recommend and help deploy an accounts payable automation solution using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central capabilities and/or a compatible third-party platform.<br>• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define the most effective long-term approach for payables processing, controls, and system support.<br>• Create clear future-state process documentation, including approval structures, internal controls, exception handling, and workflow design.<br>• Lead core project activities such as process mapping, business requirements gathering, testing coordination, and implementation support.<br>• Improve efficiency for both purchase order and non-purchase order invoice processing while reducing paper-based approvals and manual data entry.<br>• Support user training and change adoption efforts while establishing performance metrics that strengthen accuracy, timeliness, and scalability within AP.
<p>A growing healthcare organization in <strong>Vista</strong> is looking for an <strong>AP Manager</strong> to take ownership of its accounts payable function. This is a hands-on leadership role overseeing invoice processing, vendor relationships, payment cycles, reconciliations, and AP controls. The ideal candidate knows how to lead a team but isn't afraid to jump into the details when something needs to be investigated or resolved.</p><p><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Manage the company's full-cycle AP function</li><li>Supervise and mentor AP staff</li><li>Establish priorities and monitor daily invoice workflow</li><li>Review invoice coding and approval requirements</li><li>Oversee three-way matching and purchase order processes</li><li>Manage weekly payment runs</li><li>Review vendor statements and resolve discrepancies</li><li>Maintain vendor master data and controls</li><li>Monitor AP aging and outstanding invoices</li><li>Partner with Purchasing and department leaders</li><li>Investigate duplicate invoices and payment issues</li><li>Oversee month-end AP close and accruals</li><li>Assist with 1099 preparation and year-end activities</li><li>Develop AP policies and procedures</li><li>Track AP metrics and identify process improvements</li><li>Support internal and external audits</li></ul>
<p><strong>Job costs, subcontractors, vendors, retainage—you know AP is more complicated when every invoice is tied to a project.</strong></p><p>A growing construction company in <b>Solana Beach </b>is looking for an <strong>Accounts Payable Manager</strong> to lead its project-based AP operations. You'll work closely with Project Managers, Purchasing, Accounting, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure invoices are properly coded, approved, and paid. This role is ideal for someone who understands that construction AP requires strong attention to <strong>job costing, purchase orders, contracts, lien documentation, and payment deadlines</strong>.</p><p><strong>What you'll be responsible for</strong></p><ul><li>Oversee full-cycle AP for multiple construction projects</li><li>Lead and develop the AP team</li><li>Review subcontractor and vendor invoices</li><li>Ensure invoices are coded to the appropriate projects and cost categories</li><li>Oversee three-way matching between POs, receipts, and invoices</li><li>Monitor subcontractor documentation and approvals</li><li>Review vendor statements and resolve discrepancies</li><li>Manage payment schedules and cash requirements</li><li>Monitor retainage and project-related payables</li><li>Partner with Project Managers to resolve invoice issues</li><li>Review AP aging and identify outstanding liabilities</li><li>Lead month-end AP close and accrual processes</li><li>Assist with job-cost reporting</li><li>Maintain vendor records and payment controls</li><li>Establish and improve AP procedures</li><li>Prepare AP metrics and management reports</li><li>Support audits and year-end accounting activities</li></ul>
We are looking for a Financial Services Associate Director to provide strategic oversight of accounting operations and financial reporting in San Diego, California. This role leads critical close and audit activities, strengthens internal financial processes, and supports sound decision-making through accurate analysis and clear communication. The ideal candidate brings deep technical accounting knowledge, strong leadership skills, and the ability to work effectively with both financial and non-financial stakeholders.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Direct monthly closing activities and ensure financial statements, analyses, and supporting reports are completed accurately and on schedule.<br>• Improve accounting workflows by identifying opportunities to simplify procedures, strengthen controls, and increase the efficiency of close-related tasks.<br>• Apply advanced accounting guidance in specialized areas such as long-term debt and lease accounting to maintain compliance with applicable standards.<br>• Guide annual audit preparation by coordinating schedules, organizing required documentation, and serving as the primary contact for external auditors.<br>• Lead the development of the annual budget process and help align financial plans with organizational objectives and reporting needs.<br>• Resolve accounting software and financial system issues by recommending practical solutions that support operational and reporting requirements.<br>• Maintain the chart of accounts by creating and updating ledger, statistical, and hierarchical account structures as business needs evolve.<br>• Oversee banking administration, including account maintenance, reconciliations, service utilization, and related financial controls.<br>• Supervise, coach, and evaluate team members while setting priorities, supporting cross-training, and providing direction on complex accounting matters.<br>• Build productive relationships with internal and external partners while monitoring departmental spending, supporting compliance efforts, and carrying out additional assigned responsibilities.