Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

TITLE: Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Chief Financial Officer, Tarkett North America                                                                                  

Tarkett is a worldwide leader of the flooring industry. With a remarkable history extending beyond 140 years, we design, manufacture, and provide our customers the most innovative and sustainable flooring solutions possible. So if you’ve got what it takes, we invite you to join us and Floorish Your Future!

POSITION SUMMARY:  

The Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis serves as a key financial steward for the Tarkett North America Division, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. This role connects financial data to operational decision-making — translating complex results into clear narratives that support profitable growth, operational discipline, and long-term value creation.

Beyond technical mastery of the planning cycle, this leader combines analytical rigor with business empathy and communication sophistication. They build trusted partnerships across the division — from plant controllers and commercial teams to the executive leadership table — influencing decisions through insight and credibility. This is a role for a finance professional who leads with curiosity, earns trust through transparency, and creates clarity in complexity.

Tarkett North America operates as a multi-segment flooring division within a global organization, with complexity spanning commercial, residential, and hospitality business units. The Senior Manager, FP&A supports the full financial planning lifecycle — from daily close intelligence to multi-year strategic modelling — across the division’s complete P&L.

This role manages key division-level financial processes and serves as an important analytical voice in the FP&A function’s agenda, ensuring that financial stewardship is proactive, insight-driven, and action-oriented.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Division Financial Stewardship & Reporting

• Own the end-to-end monthly close reporting process for Tarkett North America — ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and actionable insight delivery to the Division CFO and Group (global) headquarters.
• Lead consolidation of division-wide financials across sales P&Ls, plant operations, and SG&A using Magnitude, SAP, and BI tools; produce a single coherent story of division performance.
• Develop and publish weekly, bi-weekly and monthly executive leadership review packages — presented in a way that drives decisions, not just awareness.
• Translate complex financial variance bridges (vs. prior year, budget, and forecast) into clear business narratives for senior leadership and Group stakeholders.

2. Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting

• Partner with the Division CFO to design and execute the annual operating plan, managing calendars, cross-functional coordination, and consolidation across sales, operations, and shared services.
• Lead rolling forecast processes — building and continuously improving predictive models for revenue, margin, working capital, and full company P&L and cash flow performance.
• Collaborate with Sales, SIOP, and Product Management on forecasting, work with Operations and plant controllers on operational volume and cost planning.
• Develop and maintain scenario models supporting strategic decisions including pricing actions, product launches, capital allocation, and M&A analysis.

3. Business Partnership & Commercial Finance Support

• Serve as a key analytical resource to the FP&A Director and Division CFO — proactively surfacing risks, opportunities, and key trends before they become problems.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand commercial profitability by business center, channel, customer, and product; identify underperforming segments and recommend targeted actions.
• Work alongside BU Finance leads to analyzing plant performance variances, operational efficiency opportunities, and capital effectiveness.
• Provide financial guidance for new product launches, customer pricing proposals, and capital investment cases — translating data into recommendations that non-finance leaders can act on.

4. Analytics, Tools & Process Excellence

• Design, build, and continuously enhance FP&A tools, dashboards, and performance tracking systems — including activity-based management frameworks and working capital analytics.
• Drive adoption of a data-driven culture across the division by standardizing KPI frameworks, establishing consistent operational metrics across plants, and linking financial and operational reporting.
• Lead process improvement initiatives in close cycle management, forecast accuracy, and management reporting quality in partnership with the CFO, shared services, and IT.
• Leverage SAP, Magnitude, and business intelligence platforms to surface insights and reduce routine reporting burden, freeing the team for higher-value analysis.

5. Influence, Collaboration & Finance Culture

• Operate as a high-impact individual contributor, leading FP&A across the division through influence rather than formal authority — building credibility through insight, consistency, and follow-through.
• Act as a thought partner and sounding board to finance colleagues and business unit leaders — elevating the quality of financial thinking across the organization.
• Contribute actively to a culture of financial rigor and continuous improvement within the FP&A function, modelling intellectual curiosity and high standards for analytical work.
• Serve as an informal coach and resource to FP&A analysts and finance colleagues across the division — sharing best practices, elevating analytical standards, and contributing to team development without direct supervisory responsibility.

6. Ad-Hoc & Strategic Project Leadership

• Take ownership of strategic finance projects assigned by the Division CFO — from initial scoping and data gathering through to executive-ready conclusions and recommendations.
• Lead or co-lead cross-functional workstreams including business case development, operational efficiency analysis, M&A financial diligence, integration support, and special portfolio reviews.
• Respond with agility to ad-hoc requests from senior leadership, translating ambiguous business questions into structured analytical frameworks and actionable outputs — often under tight timelines.
• Serve as the CFO's analytical extension on high-priority initiatives, ensuring financial rigor is embedded in decisions that cut across functions, business units, or geographies.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams effectively, balancing routine planning cycle responsibilities with project demands without sacrificing quality or timeliness on either.

REQUIREMENTS (including educational requirements):

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field required.
• MBA or CPA strongly preferred; CMA or equivalent advanced credential considered.

Experience

• 5–8+ years of progressive finance experience, with at least 3 years in FP&A in a senior analyst or manager capacity — ideally in a multi-site, global manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning a multi-segment or multi-business-unit P&L consolidation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and coordinate across finance teams without direct supervisory authority — driving alignment through credibility, analytical rigor, and strong relationships.
• Experience operating in a matrix reporting environment with divisional and group/global stakeholders.
• Hands-on proficiency with SAP and financial consolidation systems (Magnitude or equivalent); strong command of BI and data visualization tools.
• History of building and improving FP&A processes — not just running them.

Leadership & Interpersonal

• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to communicate financial complexity to executive audiences with clarity and confidence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority — building credibility through insight, integrity, and consistency.
• A collaborative self-starter who takes ownership of deliverables end-to-end, operates with minimal direction, and holds themselves to a high standard.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities — balancing routine planning cycle responsibilities with ad-hoc and strategic project demands.
• Comfortable operating at strategic altitude and in analytical detail — and knowing when each is required.
• Unwavering personal and professional integrity.

This description is a general statement of duties and responsibilities performed on a regular and continuous basis.  This description is not intended to be all inclusive and other related duties may be assigned.

What We Offer

• A commitment that Safety is #1

• Competitive benefits, pay, and retirement plan options!

• Career growth, stability, and flexible work arrangements.

Responsible Manufacturing – Protecting Our Planet for the Future

• We utilize renewable energy and a closed loop recycled water process.

• We are committed to reducing greenhouse emissions and water consumption.

• We are the only flooring company recognized by the Asthma and Allergy foundation.

Who we are:

With a history of more than 140 years, Tarkett is a worldwide leader in innovative and sustainable flooring and sport surface solutions, generating turnover of €3.3 billion in 2025. The Group has close to 12,000 employees, 25 R&D centers, 8 recycling centers and 33 production sites. Tarkett creates and manufactures solutions for hospitals, schools, housing, hotels, offices, stores and sports fields, serving customers in over 100 countries. To build “The Way to Better Floors,” the Group is committed to circular economy and sustainability, in line with its Tarkett Human‐Conscious Design® approach.

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Tarkett is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in backgrounds and in experiences and promote an inclusive workplace where all employees can perform at their best.