Manager, Revenue Planning & Analysis

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challengeand Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

Cars Commerce is seeking an experienced Manager on our Financial Planning & Analysis team to lead a person/small team responsible for short-term forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, evaluating and measuring initiatives, developing long-range strategic plans, and being a key business partner to all areas of the business. This role will be focused on Revenue and partner directly with business owners and senior leadership to ensure that we are critically assessing key business decisions, using data-driven modeling, scenario planning and analysis focused on optimizing Revenue outcomes.

• Collaborating with business partners to identify business drivers of revenue to develop outlooks, forecasts, annual budgets

• Overseeing monthly and quarterly financial variance reporting of actuals to forecast, budget and prior year

• Turning variance analysis into business insights to effectively inform senior leadership on business performance to drive decision making and action

• Providing insights and counsel to key business partners to ensure that performance targets are achieved in the most efficient means possible

• Leveraging current performance reporting to conduct sensitivity and trend analysis, incorporating information from internal and external sources

• Developing highly predictive forecasts and financial models that account for major drivers and identifying factors that could alter expected results and the expected value of each factor

• Collaborating with cross-functional leaders not only for forecasting and budgeting, but also for more strategic, less well-defined projects

• Managing, coaching, and developing Senior Financial Analysts

• Upholding consistent standards for all aspects of Financial Planning and Reporting

• Effectively working across the Finance organizations to ensure no duplication of effort and no gaps in responsibility

Required Skills & Competencies

• Financial modeling, identifying key drivers, leveraging analysis and economic factors to drive predictive output with improving accuracy (in building, challenging, evolving)

• Proven track record of leading and developing a highly successful team

• Planful and well-organized; ability to establish reasonable timelines and pace team to meet deadlines

• Manage and balance multiple (and sometimes competing) priorities with the ability to quickly adapt to changing business needs

• Identify gaps in workflows and processes; develop and implement robust, sustainable solutions

• Strong focus on accuracy and high attention to detail

• Proven ability to build simple, sustainable financial models that model complex business issue

• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and interface effectively with all levels of management in a cross-functional environment (business and technical)

• A forward-thinking person who considers long-term trends and broad business implications when determining approach or recommending actions

• Desire to continuously improve yourself and your team’s performance – efficiencies, deliverables, processes, standards, predictive and other key metrics

• Demonstrated ability to self-teach and work independently, particularly on high level, less defined projects or ones that require cross-functional collaboration

• Ability to utilize constructive feedback to further personal and professional development

• Passionate, energetic, approachable with a positive, low-ego, can-do demeanor

• Proficient in Microsoft Suite; highly advanced Excel and Powerpoint

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or related field

• MBA or CPA or other relevant work experience that demonstrates leadership, adaptability and potential (preferred)

• 7+ years of experience in accounting or finance, including relevant experience with financial planning and reporting

• Working knowledge of accounting concepts

• Experience supporting Accounting in a publicly traded corporation

• Experience developing a bottoms-up organic budget and forecast in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment

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Salary Range

$101,100.00-126,400.00

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

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