Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. USA Rare Earth, Inc. is on a mission to become a leading supplier of critical materials for the green energy revolution. The Sr. Manager – Group FP&A is a strategic finance leader responsible for enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, and performance management, partnering with executive leadership to drive financial insights and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain complex, dynamic financial models that integrate operational, financial, and market drivers
- Develop driver-based and predictive models to improve forecast accuracy and strategic insight
- Build and maintain integration and synergy tracking models for acquired businesses
- Translate complex modeling outputs into clear executive-level narratives
- Establish best practices, standards, and governance for modeling across the FP&A function
- Lead global annual planning, long-range planning (LRP), and rolling forecast cycles across regions and business units
- Develop integrated three-statement financial models supporting enterprise forecasting, strategic planning, and capital allocation
- Incorporate acquired entities into forecasts and plans, ensuring alignment of financial structures, assumptions, and reporting
- Drive alignment between financial plans and corporate strategy, ensuring growth targets are achievable and measurable
- Perform advanced scenario modeling, sensitivities, and stress testing to support decision-making in a dynamic environment
- Deliver executive-level reporting packages, synthesizing complex financial data into actionable insights
- Analyze business performance, identify key value drivers, risks, and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions
- Track and report on post-acquisition performance, including synergy realization and integration milestones
- Standardize KPIs, metrics, and dashboards across the enterprise
- Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior operational leaders on financial and operational decisions
- Lead quantitative analysis and financial modeling for strategic initiatives, including pricing, cost optimization, and investment prioritization
- Support financial evaluation of acquisitions and integration strategies, including forecasting impact and ROI tracking
- Provide rigorous financial evaluation of business cases and capital allocation decisions
- Enhance FP&A tools and platforms to support advanced modeling and analytics (e.g. Adaptive)
- Drive integration of financial systems, data structures, and reporting processes for newly acquired entities
- Drive automation, scalability, and data integrity across global finance processes
- Build and lead a high-performing FP&A team with strong analytical and modeling capabilities
- Coach team members on advanced modeling techniques, financial storytelling, and strategic thinking
- Foster a culture of rigor, curiosity, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA strongly preferred)
- 10+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience
- Demonstrated experience in a global, high-growth, multi-entity environment
- Expert-level financial modeling skills, including:
- + Advanced Excel/modeling proficiency (complex formulas, macros optional, scenario engines)
- + Deep experience with three-statement models, driver-based planning models, and valuation frameworks
- + Ability to build scalable, flexible models from the ground up in ambiguous environments
- Experience supporting acquisition integration, financial consolidation, or post-deal performance tracking
- Proven ability to translate complex analyses into executive-level insights and recommendations
- Experience influencing senior leadership and key business decisions
- Track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
- Experience supporting M&A, corporate development, or investment analysis
- Background in transformation or large-scale growth environments
- Experience with planning systems (Adaptive)
- Familiarity with BI/analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau)
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