Director, Corporate FP&A

About Monster Energy:

Forget about blending in. That's not our style. We're the risk takers, the trailblazers, the gamechangers. We're not perfect and we don't pretend to be. We're raw, unfiltered, and a bit unconventional. Our drive is just like our athletes, unrivaled. The power is in your hands to define what success looks like and where you want to take your career. It's not just about what we do, but about who we become on along the way. We are much more than a brand here. We are a way of life, a mindset. Join us.

A Day in the Life:

The Director, Corporate FP&A will lead Monster Energy corporate financial planning (budgeting, forecasting, analysis). In partnership with the Principal, Corporate Development & FP&A, this role will also support execution of financial M&A integration work, technical accounting analysis, and other corporate strategic initiatives. The Director, Corporate FP&A will be a critical partner across various internal teams and as such, should provide a high level of customer service to Monster Energy employees across all departments and levels.

The Impact You'll Make:

 

• Provide primary ownership over all forward-looking financial projections and budgeting related to Monster Energy management company
• Partner with the executive management team to facilitate strategic planning and analysis. Run and manage multiple scenarios that reflect the most recent same store business plan, capital markets transactions and/or acquisitions.
• Continuously improve systems, business processes, and reporting capabilities of the Corporate FP&A team using BPC/SAP SAC system.
• Assume overall responsibility for the completeness, accuracy and integrity of source data used in budgets, reforecasts, and internal management reports
• Optimize and/or implement relevant processes to gather, analyze and store benchmarking metrics, ensuring necessary tools are in place to drive business decision making. Includes providing ongoing, relevant public company competitor set benchmarking and analyses of the alternative asset management industry
• Coordinate with Investments, Capital Markets, and Finance Leadership to ensure that recurring and ad-hoc analyses prepared by FP&A meets the needs of all stakeholders and is delivered accurately, efficiently, and timely.
• Assist Investments teams with transaction support work (including corporate M&A, new investments, and/or financing for the management company). Provide support for due diligence and other related requests, as needed.
• In partnership with relevant teams, support execution of M&A integration work. Specifically, manage implementation of business process initiatives to ensure the accuracy, reliability and efficiency of the accounting, budgeting and forecasting processes. Identify opportunities for cost reductions and synergies throughout the company, as part of integration efforts
• Provide analyses of NPV and monitor payback of internal initiatives. Includes ongoing project support to a) enable forward progress on initiatives, and b) ensure economics remain on track/aligned to business outcomes
• Apply knowledge of US GAAP and fair-value GAAP to ensure fair-value adjustments are appropriately layered into cash flow actual results and projections on a consistent basis
• Additional projects, as assigned

 

Who You Are:

 

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance or related field
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in FP&A
• Demonstrated experience providing technical accounting guidance on complex transactions, business combinations, revenue recognition, etc. required.
• Prior asset and investment management business experience a plus (incl. corporate aspects of alternative asset management)
• Investment banking, private equity or management consulting industry experience preferred
• CPA, CFA, MBA preferred
• Experience with public company benchmarking and analyses of the alternative asset management industry a plus
• 3+ years of Big 4 or other public accounting experience preferred, specifically Transaction Services
• 4+ years of hands-on leadership experience within finance and accounting functions
• Highest level of technical expertise in SAP SAC, BW, BI, Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Access & PowerPoint
• Complex financial modeling experience required
• Exceptional to technical with US GAAP required; IFRS and/or other GAAP basis a plus
• Programming experience with SQL, Excel Macros (VBA) or other similar languages (optional)
• Experience with Adaptive Planning, SAP SAC/FP&A Planning, or similar forecasting software preferred