FP&A Manager

If you are a FP&A Manager professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you! In this role, you will lead financial planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision support for a multi-divisional manufacturing, distribution, and sales organization. Working closely with finance, operations, and commercial leaders, you will transform business performance data into actionable insights that support strategic decision-making, drive operational excellence, and contribute to sustainable growth. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while supporting Emerson’s values of innovation, integrity, collaboration, and inclusion.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Are To:

• Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, including planning calendars, assumptions, target setting, consolidations, and leadership reviews.
• Analyze and communicate monthly and quarterly business performance, including actual versus plan, forecast, and prior-year results, highlighting key drivers and business impacts.
• Develop financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity studies to support investments, pricing strategies, productivity initiatives, resource allocation, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with operations, sales, product management, accounting, and other cross-functional teams to improve forecast accuracy and identify risks and opportunities.
• Translate operational metrics into financial outcomes and provide recommendations that support informed business decisions.
• Prepare executive-level reporting and presentations that clearly communicate insights, business implications, and recommended actions.
• Collaborate with accounting teams during period-end close activities to ensure financial results are fully understood and aligned with planning assumptions.
• Maintain strong planning, reporting, governance, and internal control processes while supporting compliance with Emerson financial policies and US GAAP requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, automation, dashboard development, and enhanced use of planning, ERP, and business intelligence tools.
• Lead, coach, and develop finance team members by creating a collaborative environment focused on accountability, development, and knowledge sharing.
• Support special projects, business initiatives, and Finance-IT collaborations that enhance organizational performance and decision-making capabilities.

Who You Are:

You make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. You build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. You develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. You develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals while consistently delivering results, even under challenging circumstances.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
• Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, finance business partnering, financial analysis, or related disciplines.
• Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, management reporting, and business performance evaluation.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience creating impactful presentations and financial communications.
• Experience working with ERP systems, enterprise planning tools, and business intelligence or reporting platforms.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and business economics, including revenue, margin performance, cost structures, inventory management, productivity, working capital, and cash flow.
• Experience leading teams, projects, or complex planning processes while influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AI, automation, and advanced analytics concepts, along with a continuous learning mindset and interest in leveraging technology to improve forecasting, reporting, and decision support.
• Ability to work on-site in Boulder, Colorado in alignment with Emerson’s 4:1 work policy and travel up to 10% as needed.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• 8 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, finance business partnering, financial analysis, or similar.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, distribution, or sales-focused organizations.
• Experience with Power BI, Oracle, Oracle EPM, or similar planning and reporting platforms.
• MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional certification.
• Experience driving process improvements, automation initiatives, or digital finance transformations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights and financial analysis.

Our Culture and Commitment to You: 

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. ​

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) with match, Profit-sharing, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $135,000 to $150,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.​

This position will be open for a minimum of 7 days from the day of posting.  Applicants are encouraged to apply early to receive optimal consideration. In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

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WHY EMERSON 

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

Work Authorization

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

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ABOUT EMERSON 

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.

With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!

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