Consulting Manager, FP&A
BIP
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Greater Chicago Area
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Mid-Senior level
Posted April 4, 2026
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Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Assess and enhance financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Review and improve revenue, margin, and cost models and assumptions
- Strengthen product, customer, plant, and channel profitability analysis
- Prepare and enhance management reporting, dashboards, and presentations
- Perform variance analysis and identify risks and opportunities
- Partner with functional leaders on expense, headcount, and capital planning
- Support pricing, investment, and strategic initiative analysis
- Improve FP&A templates, tools, and analytical frameworks
- Collaborate with Accounting to align actuals, forecasts, and reporting logic
- Support implementation of improved planning and reporting practices
- Deliver practical models and tools to sustain enhanced FP&A capabilities Previous Experience
- Led components of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans
- Built and maintained financial models (revenue, margin, opex, cash flow)
- Performed performance analysis and variance explanations
- Produced management reporting and leadership presentations
- Partnered with business functions on planning and analysis
- Delivered ad hoc analysis for strategy, pricing, and profitability
- Improved FP&A processes, templates, or reporting tools
- Provided informal leadership or guidance to analysts
- Participated in FP&A optimization or consulting-style initiatives
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Requirements
- Worked in business partnering or advisory roles with stakeholders Required Qualifications
- 7+ years FP&A, corporate finance, or analytical consulting experience
- Advanced Excel and strong financial modeling/data analysis capability
- Experience with planning/reporting tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.) preferred
- Strong business partnering and communication skills
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, evolving environments
- Management consulting or finance advisory experience (planning/forecasting/performance)
Preferred Skills
- Experience with planning/reporting tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.) preferred
- Preferred: CPG, Food & Beverage, or manufacturing experience with SKU/plant/customer profitability exposure Nice to Have
- Management consulting or finance advisory experience (planning/forecasting/performance)
Education
- (Not required) – Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
Company Overview: Business Integration Partners (BIP) is Europe’s fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 by 2030, with an expanding global footprint in the US (New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston). Operating at the intersection of business and technology we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale creating greater value for our customers, employees, shareholders, and society. BIP specializes in high-impact consulting services across multiple industries with 6,000 employees worldwide. Our domains include Financial Services (Banking and Capital Markets), Insurance and Payments verticals, Life Sciences, and Retail supplemented with Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Change Management and Digital Transformation practices. We integrate deep industry expertise with business, technology, and quantitative disciplines to deliver high-impact results for our clients. Overview: This consulting engagement places a Manager-level FP&A professional into a critical finance improvement initiative focused on strengthening financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting. The consultant will assess existing models and management reporting; diagnose gaps in how performance is analyzed across products, customers, plants, and channels; and help design more robust, insight-driven tools and processes suited to a manufacturing/CPG operating environment. Key Responsibilities
Assess and enhance financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
Review and improve revenue, margin, and cost models and assumptions
Strengthen product, customer, plant, and channel profitability analysis
Prepare and enhance management reporting, dashboards, and presentations
Perform variance analysis and identify risks and opportunities
Partner with functional leaders on expense, headcount, and capital planning
Support pricing, investment, and strategic initiative analysis
Improve FP&A templates, tools, and analytical frameworks
Collaborate with Accounting to align actuals, forecasts, and reporting logic
Support implementation of improved planning and reporting practices
Deliver practical models and tools to sustain enhanced FP&A capabilities Previous Experience
Led components of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans
Built and maintained financial models (revenue, margin, opex, cash flow)
Performed performance analysis and variance explanations
Produced management reporting and leadership presentations
Partnered with business functions on planning and analysis
Delivered ad hoc analysis for strategy, pricing, and profitability
Improved FP&A processes, templates, or reporting tools
Provided informal leadership or guidance to analysts
Participated in FP&A optimization or consulting-style initiatives
Worked in business partnering or advisory roles with stakeholders Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
7+ years FP&A, corporate finance, or analytical consulting experience
Advanced Excel and strong financial modeling/data analysis capability
Experience with planning/reporting tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.) preferred
Strong business partnering and communication skills
Ability to operate in fast-paced, evolving environments
Preferred: CPG, Food & Beverage, or manufacturing experience with SKU/plant/customer profitability exposure Nice to Have
Management consulting or finance advisory experience (planning/forecasting/performance)
Big 4 or consulting firm background ** The role compensation will be $80 - $120/hour** For more information about BIP US, visit https://www.bip-group.com/en-us/. Equal Employment Opportunity: It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.
Assess and enhance financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
Review and improve revenue, margin, and cost models and assumptions
Strengthen product, customer, plant, and channel profitability analysis
Prepare and enhance management reporting, dashboards, and presentations
Perform variance analysis and identify risks and opportunities
Partner with functional leaders on expense, headcount, and capital planning
Support pricing, investment, and strategic initiative analysis
Improve FP&A templates, tools, and analytical frameworks
Collaborate with Accounting to align actuals, forecasts, and reporting logic
Support implementation of improved planning and reporting practices
Deliver practical models and tools to sustain enhanced FP&A capabilities Previous Experience
Led components of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans
Built and maintained financial models (revenue, margin, opex, cash flow)
Performed performance analysis and variance explanations
Produced management reporting and leadership presentations
Partnered with business functions on planning and analysis
Delivered ad hoc analysis for strategy, pricing, and profitability
Improved FP&A processes, templates, or reporting tools
Provided informal leadership or guidance to analysts
Participated in FP&A optimization or consulting-style initiatives
Worked in business partnering or advisory roles with stakeholders Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
7+ years FP&A, corporate finance, or analytical consulting experience
Advanced Excel and strong financial modeling/data analysis capability
Experience with planning/reporting tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, etc.) preferred
Strong business partnering and communication skills
Ability to operate in fast-paced, evolving environments
Preferred: CPG, Food & Beverage, or manufacturing experience with SKU/plant/customer profitability exposure Nice to Have
Management consulting or finance advisory experience (planning/forecasting/performance)
Big 4 or consulting firm background ** The role compensation will be $80 - $120/hour** For more information about BIP US, visit https://www.bip-group.com/en-us/. Equal Employment Opportunity: It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.