Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

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Company Overview

For more than 70 years, TBC Corporation has been a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers and distributors of automotive replacement tires through wholesale operations. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at nearly 470 franchised tire and automotive service centers under the award-winning Big O Tires® brand. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

With $5 billion in revenue and more than 3,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers and with proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018, Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.

• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

The role is a critical strategic role responsible for elevating financial rigor, strengthening enterprise planning, and enabling executive leadership to make faster, more informed decisions. This role will lead the end to end planning ecosystem — annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long range strategic models — while driving enhanced financial visibility, scenario analysis, and forward looking insights.

The role will serve as a thought partner to senior leaders, proactively shaping financial strategy, identifying risks early, challenging assumptions and influencing resource allocation and investment decisions. The position plays a critical role in translating complex business opportunities into clear financial implications, influencing decisions to improve outcomes and enabling leadership to act with confidence.

The role will also be responsible for advancing FP&A maturity by championing process modernization, automation, and data governance to significantly reduce manual effort and improve the accuracy and speed of financial insights.

The role represents a high value, strategic investment that increases financial discipline, strengthens accountability across the business, and improves the organization’s ability to execute against long term objectives.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership & Executive Support

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders (VP, SVP, GM level), influencing decisions with data driven insights and strong business acumen.
• Proactively identify financial risks, opportunities, and trade offs, framing recommendations in the context of enterprise strategy, growth objectives, and capital allocation priorities.
• Partner with leadership to translate complex operational initiatives, commercial strategies, and transformation efforts into clear financial implications, ensuring leadership understands impacts on earnings and return on investment, balancing short term performance with long term value creation.
• Provide senior leadership with timely, high impact insights that connect financial outcomes to business strategy, growth objectives and profitability targets
• Challenge assumptions and surface alternative scenarios to enable better decision making in uncertain or rapidly changing environments while balancing operational needs with financial discipline.

Planning and Forecasting

• Lead and oversee the development of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long range financial plans ensuring alignment to organizational strategy and accountability across the organization
• Own and continuously refine enterprise wide forecasting models for revenue, cost, headcount, and key business drivers, ensuring transparency, scalability, and consistency.
• Drive improved forecast accuracy through deep variance analysis, enhanced assumptions, and tighter integration with operational metrics.
• Establish planning standards, calendars, and best practices that promote consistency, discipline, and executive confidence in financial outputs.

Additional Job Responsibilities

Advanced Financial Analysis, Insights & Decision Support

• Lead the analysis of financial and operational performance relative to budget, forecast, and prior periods; identify trends, emerging risk areas, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and deliver executive-level reporting, dashboards, and executive level presentations
• Synthesize complex data into clear and actionable executive narratives
• Lead scenario modeling, sensitivity testing, and ROI analysis to guide strategic decisions, investments, and cost actions.
• Ensure insights are forward looking and decision oriented, moving beyond “what happened” to “what it means” and “what to do next.”
• Anticipate questions from senior leadership and proactively prepare insights that inform upcoming decisions.

Continued Responsibilities

Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and reporting to increase automation, reduce manual effort, and Improve speed and accuracy of insights.
• Lead advancements in financial models, planning technologies, analytics capabilities and cross functional data integration.
• Strengthen data integrity across systems by ensuring 
• Support audit, governance, and leadership review processes with high quality analysis and reliable financial data.
• alignment between FP&A, Accounting, and operational data sources.

Added Responsibilities

Leadership & Organizational Impact

• Act as a leader within FP&A, setting high standards for analytical rigor, accountability, and business partnership.
• Mentor and develop FP&A team members (indirectly), elevating technical capability, business acumen, and executive communication skills.
• Represent FP&A in cross functional forums and strategic initiatives, reinforcing finance’s role as a value adding partner to the business.
• Serve as a role model for collaboration, ownership, and strategic thinking across the finance organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• MBA, CPA, CFA, or comparable advanced credential preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive finance experience with strong expertise in FP&A, corporate finance, or business finance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex planning processes and develop high impact models (forecasting, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, ROI).
• Proven track record of improving FP&A efficiency through automation, system enhancements, or standardized processes.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate large, complex datasets into concise, actionable insights.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with BI tools and financial planning systems preferred.
• Exceptional communication, executive storytelling, and presentation capabilities.
• Proven experience partnering with senior executives to influence decisions and shape financial strategy.
• Experience working across multiple functions (Accounting, Operations, Sales, HR, IT) in dynamic or highly complex operating environments.
• Exposure to strategic initiatives such as restructurings, pricing shifts, business transformations, or M&A activities.
• Ability to operate with agility in a fast paced, results driven environment while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Bilingual in Spanish /English is a plus

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!

Mission Critical Competencies

TBC seeks team members who excel in demonstrating our critical competencies to drive organizational capability. In this spirit we view the following as mission critical for this role:

• Strategic Mindset: seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Change Management: effective Sponsorship, Change Agent and influencing skills. Adaptive, agile, flexible, open minded. Proven ability to build cross-functional commitment, lead, simplify and scale complex dynamic organizations through transformational change.