The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager directs and oversees a team that collects, manages, and analyzes business data and makes business improvement recommendations. Drives innovation through development of AI, Analytical, and Performance based solutions to enhance financial planning and management throughout the organization. Recommends processes, policies, practices, and procedures that have a significant impact on the organization.

This role and its function are part of the Financial Planning and Analysis shared services model. A Team Member in a shared service structure, works within a dedicated business unit (including people, processes, and technologies) that is structured as a centralized point of service and is focused on defined business functions. These units typically serve multiple business groups enterprise wide, and typically have established Service Level Agreements.

• Leads team of analysts to transform information into recommended actions for the leadership team to make effective business decisions.
• Interacts with the senior leadership team as a subject matter expert and conduit for organizational financial intelligence, filtering executive ad hoc requests down to the analyst team as necessary and relevant to achieving overarching enterprise objectives.
• Partners with Technology and Data teams to identify new data sources and evaluate and improve existing data infrastructure; recommends third party software and helps implement into current architecture.
• Responsible for developing and implementing AI based solutions to generate organizational efficiencies within Finance and Shared Services.
• Continuously improves and builds upon the financial planning and analysis department, developing internal associates and identifying high quality talent.
• Oversees and identifies business trends, conducts root cause analysis of business problems, draws conclusions about business operations, and suggests changes or improvements to improve performance, efficiency, quality, or compliance of operations.
• Helps drive financial education, accountability, and operational excellence throughout the organization.
• Assists other teams in driving financial and nonfinancial systems and reporting changes.
• Supports the annual budget process by maintaining financial models and collaborating with enterprise senior leadership to generate annual business plans towards meeting budget goals.
• Oversees the financial forecasting cycle by anticipating business changes and spotting trends, getting key stakeholders aligned on material inputs, completing input models, loading systems, producing reporting, and providing insightful analysis, contingency plans, and operational recommendations.
• Hires, trains, develops, empowers, coaches, counsels, conducts performance and salary reviews, resolves problems, provides open communication vehicles, disciplines, and recommends terminations as appropriate.
• Builds a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition, mutual respect, collaboration, performance feedback/management, and Team Member satisfaction while role modeling the company values, behaviors, and culture of One.Team.Chumash.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
• Five years’ experience in finance and/or analytics.
• Working experience with analytics tools, as well as planning and analytical software (Preferred Python or R).
• Working experience with financial planning and reporting tools such as: Tableau, PowerBI, Anaplan.
• Working knowledge of finance operations, including general ledger accounting, AP/AR, payroll, and fixed asset accounting.
• Requires advanced knowledge and skills in math and business complemented by robust organizational acumen.
• Working experience or knowledge with integrating and implementing AI based solutions within existing processes.
• Understands business processes and how data insight can improve or disrupt those processes.
• Strong project management skills.
• Knowledge of applicable law, regulations, rules, procedures, and administration.
• Must apply for, receive, and maintain a Gaming License from the Tribal Gaming Agency.
• Native American hiring preference applies.
• External (Strategic) Awareness Having the ability to put things in context and think broadly. Involves consideration and understanding of future business needs within a changing (external) environment (social, political, economic and related industries, and technology), how process, methods, and resource requirements might be affected by future trends and developments, and developing long-term goals and strategies extending over a significant time span (i.e. 3-5 years).
• Financial Awareness Actively seeking opportunities to optimize financial costs and investments when making decisions that have a financial implication.
• Organizational Awareness Having and using knowledge of systems, situations, procedures, and culture inside the organization to identify potential problems and opportunities, perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization.
• Data Gathering and Analytics Collecting, consolidating, and using relevant information; recognizing important information; tracing possible causes of problems, and searching for practical data/solutions.
• Planning and Organizing Setting priorities and defining actions, time, and resources needed to achieve predefined goals.
• Written Communication Expressing ideas and opinions clearly in properly structured, well organized, and grammatically correct reports or documents; utilizing language and terminology that is understandable for the reader.
• Oral Communication Shaping and expressing ideas and information in an effective manner.
• People Development Having the ability to assess skill strengths and weaknesses of individuals and teams in order to determine what actions are appropriate to build and/or improve the needed skills.