<h3>**REMOTE POSITION**</h3> <h3>Position Summary</h3> <p>The Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, is responsible for delivering high-quality, independent analysis and financial modeling to support budgeting, forecasting, and business decision-making for Vesper Energy. The role contributes to moderately complex projects within the FP&A function, collaborating with colleagues across departments to ensure financial plans and reporting accurately reflect company priorities. The Manager partners with Finance, Accounting, and business leaders to ensure financial targets are met and identifies improvement opportunities in processes and reporting.</p> <h3>Role Requirements</h3> <p>Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field. MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.<br>CPA, CFA, or other relevant certifications are a plus.</p> <p>Years of Experience: 4 to 7 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or related fields, including independent work on moderately complex financial modeling projects.</p> <p>Additional Skills, abilities & knowledge:</p> <ul> <li>Demonstrated ability to model Vesper's values, Accountability, Respect, Courage, Collaboration, and Continuous Improvement, through day-to-day behaviors (e.g., flags risks early, communicates directly, involves the right stakeholders early, and documents and shares learnings).</li> <li>Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to support moderately complex project work independently</li> <li>Proficiency in financial analysis and accounting tools and software (e.g., Excel, Sage, Cube, ERP, and planning systems) and ability to learn new systems as needed</li> <li>Experience preparing detailed budgets, forecasts, and financial reports in a fast paced or growth stage company</li> <li>Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, able to track multiple deadlines and deliverables with minimal oversight</li> <li>Ability to summarize variance analysis and identify financial drivers or risks, delivering clear and actionable insights</li> <li>Effective written and verbal communicator, able to explain financial results and recommendations to colleagues and business leaders</li> <li>Collaborative approach to working across functions to deliver results, avoid surprises, and improve decision quality</li> <li>Analytical mindset and willingness to continuously improve processes, templates, and reporting tools</li> <li>Comfort with ambiguity, high expectations, and changing priorities in a lean environment</li> </ul> <h3>Key Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Build and maintain financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning for assigned projects or business segments</li> <li>Prepare and coordinate the annual budgeting process, collaborating with departments to ensure input accuracy and timely completion</li> <li>Analyze actual financial performance versus budget and forecast, preparing variance analyses and surfacing financial risks or opportunities</li> <li>Deliver actionable financial insights and recommendations to finance and business leadership for routine and moderately complex issues</li> <li>Partner with the accounting team to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and data integrity</li> <li>Prepare and present financial reports, summaries, and decision support materials for business leaders as assigned</li> <li>Identify and implement process improvements for FP&A workflows, reporting tools, and template standardization</li> <li>Coordinate information and deliverables with other finance, commercial, and business operations teams as needed</li> <li>Support ad hoc and special projects related to capital planning, scenario analysis, or investment case development</li> <li>Other duties as assigned</li> </ul>