Company Overview:
Business Integration Partners (BIP) is Europe’s fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 by 2030, with an expanding global footprint in the US (New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston). Operating at the intersection of business and technology we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale creating greater value for our customers, employees, shareholders, and society.
BIP specializes in high-impact consulting services across multiple industries with 6,000 employees worldwide. Our domains include Financial Services (Banking and Capital Markets), Insurance and Payments verticals, Life Sciences, and Retail supplemented with Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Change Management and Digital Transformation practices. We integrate deep industry expertise with business, technology, and quantitative disciplines to deliver high-impact results for our clients.
Overview:
This consulting engagement places a Manager-level FP&A professional into a critical finance improvement initiative focused on strengthening financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting. The consultant will assess existing models and management reporting; diagnose gaps in how performance is analyzed across products, customers, plants, and channels; and help design more robust, insight-driven tools and processes suited to a manufacturing/CPG operating environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and enhance financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Review and improve revenue, margin, and cost models and assumptions
- Strengthen product, customer, plant, and channel profitability analysis
- Prepare and enhance management reporting, dashboards, and presentations
- Perform variance analysis and identify risks and opportunities
- Partner with functional leaders on expense, headcount, and capital planning
- Support pricing, investment, and strategic initiative analysis
- Improve FP&A templates, tools, and analytical frameworks
- Collaborate with Accounting to align actuals, forecasts, and reporting logic
- Support implementation of improved planning and reporting practices
- Deliver practical models and tools to sustain enhanced FP&A capabilities
Previous Experience
- Led components of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans
- Built and maintained financial models (revenue, margin, opex, cash flow)
- Performed performance analysis and variance explanations
- Produced management reporting and leadership presentations
- Partnered with business functions on planning and analysis
- Delivered ad hoc analysis for strategy, pricing, and profitability
- Improved FP&A processes, templates, or reporting tools
- Provided informal leadership or guidance to analysts
- Participated in FP&A optimization or consulting-style initiatives
- Worked in business partnering or advisory roles with stakeholders
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 7+ years FP&A, corporate finance, or analytical consulting experience
- Advanced Excel and strong financial modeling/data analysis capability
- Experience with planning/reporting tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.) preferred
- Strong business partnering and communication skills
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, evolving environments
- Preferred: CPG, Food & Beverage, or manufacturing experience with SKU/plant/customer profitability exposure
Nice to Have
- Management consulting or finance advisory experience (planning/forecasting/performance)
- Big 4 or consulting firm background
** The role compensation will be $80 - $120/hour**
For more information about BIP US, visit https://www.bip-group.com/en-us/.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.
