Corporate FP&A Lead

Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE "HAYW") is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world, with a significant presence in the commercial pool market that is continuously growing. Hayward designs, manufactures, and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, salt chlorinators, automation, lighting, safety, flow control and energy solutions at our company owned facilities. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hayward also has facilities in Tennessee, Arizona, Atlanta and Rhode Island as well as Canada, Spain, Australia, and China. This position is based in Charlotte.

The Manager, FP&A will be a key member in the Global FP&A Team with the core responsibilities of analyzing and reporting monthly financial results to the leadership team and Board of Directors, tracking/analyzing key performance indicators, coordinating and managing the planning and forecasting process, and providing ad hoc analyses and reporting. The Manager, FP&A reports to Sr. Manager of FP&A, will take a lead in process improvement, system implementation and automation to help drive FP&A maturity and be involved in strategic initiatives within Finance. It is critical for the individual holding this position to have experience in Corporate Finance and a good understanding of FP&A requirements and processes. Solid financial knowledge, and analytical skills to translate complex financial information to a variety of audiences, and experience to develop critical processes and make changes. This will be a highly visible role with direct interaction with the Finance leadership team and executive team.

Corporate Financial Reporting & Performance Management

• Lead monthly corporate financial reporting and variance analysis for executive leadership.
• Analyze enterprise-wide performance drivers including volume, mix, pricing, manufacturing costs, overhead absorption, and margin trends.
• Perform deep-dive analyses to identify enterprise-level risks, opportunities, and structural cost or margin improvement levers.
• Prepare high-quality financial presentations and materials for senior leadership and the Board of Directors.

Enterprise Planning, Forecasting & Strategic Modeling

• Support corporate-level quarterly, annual, and long-range planning and forecasting processes.
• Own end-to-end consolidation and governance of forecasts in OneStream, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of submissions.
• Review, challenge, and synthesize inputs from business units and regions to create a cohesive corporate forecast.

Data, Automation & FP&A Excellence

• Drive standardization and automation of corporate FP&A reporting, dashboards, and analytics.

• Improve data quality, governance, and report efficiency across business units and regions.
• Support ERP and planning system implementations, ensuring alignment of corporate FP&A processes with business-unit and plant-level workflows.
• Drive continuous improvement of enterprise FP&A tools and analytical capabilities, partnering with IT and Finance COEs to deliver scalable, future-ready planning and reporting systems.

• 8+ years’ of progressive experience in Finance, working in a global business. Corporate FP&A experience preferred.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing economics, cost structures, and margin drivers
• Enterprise-level financial thinking with strong analytical rigor
• Exceptional skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint a must, with the ability to comfortably use pivot tables, and importing/manipulating data.
• Proficiency in data analytics and consolidation tools to manipulate, analyze and visualize data to derive insights and solve problems. Familiarity with OneStream, Dynamics 365, Power BI or SQL is preferred.
• Prior experience leading cross functional projects will be critical to be successful in this role.
• A highly motivated, proactive, and collaborative work ethic, with the ability to independently move projects forward.
• Multitasking skills: ability to act with sense of urgency and work under pressure.
• Strong finance acumen, collaboration skills, customer focus, ability to manage complexity, exceptional communication, and accountability.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Background in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) or Manufacturing is preferred.