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Lakeshore Talent is in search of an FP&A Manager to join a high-performing finance team in Lakewood, CO. This is a high-visibility, manager-level individual contributor role ideal for a detail-oriented, commercially minded finance professional who enjoys complex modeling, long-term contracts, and close partnership with senior leadership.
Position Details
Location: Lakewood, CO
Schedule: Hybrid
- In-office: Monday–Wednesday
- Work from home: Thursday–Friday
- Flexibility required — occasional in-office presence on WFH days when key deliverables are due
Travel: Occasional, sporadic travel depending on business needs
Base Salary: $140,000+
Position Overview
The FP&A Manager will analyze profitability across operating companies and revenue streams, support long-term strategic decision-making, and play a major role in budgeting, forecasting, and pricing new contract opportunities.
This role requires an individual who is intellectually curious, operationally savvy, and highly detail-oriented. Inaccuracies in modeling can materially impact profitability, so precision is critical.
The position offers frequent interaction with senior leadership and broad exposure across the business.
Key Responsibilities
Company & Contract Profitability Analysis
- Develop and communicate the financial impact of business decisions to improve operational efficiency
- Analyze large, long-term contracts (often $8–12M annually, 3–4 year terms)
- Read, analyze, and interpret complex contract and RFP documents (often 60+ pages)
- Identify details and assumptions not explicitly stated that may impact profitability
- Build and maintain sophisticated financial models in Excel, including models developed from scratch
- Serve as a go-to resource for understanding financial performance across key lines of business
- Make data-driven recommendations to management to improve margins and performance
- Gather disparate data sources and harmonize them into cohesive, actionable models
Annual Planning & Budgeting
- Play a key role in the annual budgeting process and semi-annual forecasts
- Set timelines, coordinate inputs, and compile budgets across multiple entities
- Analyze historical performance and budget variances
- Develop independent forecasts and financial narratives for leadership
- Maintain and enhance corporate finance and planning models
- Lead integration of capital charges into the budgeting and planning process
Business Development & RFP Modeling
- Support business development by building custom pricing models for new contracts and RFPs
- Analyze assumptions such as revenue growth rates, cost structures, and timing
- Partner with stakeholders to price additional services within existing contracts
- Evaluate root causes of gaps versus targets and help drive corrective action
Business Intelligence & KPI Reporting
- Analyze operational KPIs related to cost, efficiency, and profitability
- Utilize Power BI to extract and analyze operational data from multiple systems
- Partner with BI and finance stakeholders to improve KPI design and reporting
- Identify opportunities for operational cost savings
Systems & Ad Hoc Analysis
- Support and leverage the rollout and use of Workday, including Adaptive Planning
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis and special projects as needed
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance (required)
- 6–10+ years of progressive FP&A or financial analysis experience
- Exceptional ability to build, interpret, and modify complex Excel models from scratch
- Advanced Excel skills, including (but not limited to):
- VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, OFFSET
- Pivot tables, data tables, scenario/sensitivity analysis
- Strong understanding of NPV, IRR, and free cash flow analysis
- Experience analyzing KPIs to drive operational cost savings
- Workday Adaptive Planning experience – highly preferred
- Power BI experience – a plus
- Background in project-based, long-term contract industries (e.g., construction, infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing)
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Pure tech/SaaS backgrounds may not translate as well
Skills & Attributes
- Highly analytical and critical thinker
- Big-picture, strategic mindset paired with strong attention to detail
- Commercially minded and operationally savvy
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex financial data for leadership
- Strong business acumen in finance and accounting principles
- High ethical standards and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Benefits & Perks
- Hands-on training and mentorship from the prior role-holder
- Strong, consistent bonus payouts tied to company performance
- Bonuses paid twice per year
- Company-provided lunches on in-office days
- $100/month cell phone stipend
This role is ideal for an FP&A professional who enjoys deep financial modeling, long-term contract analysis, and partnering closely with leadership to drive profitability and strategic decision-making.