Financial Planning and Analysis Consolidation Partner

Location: Columbus, OH

OH0713 NW Bancshares HQ

The FP&A Consolidation partner is responsible for leading enterprise financial consolidation, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of actuals, forecasts, and plans across the organization. This position partners closely with Accounting, Treasury, and Business Finance teams to deliver a single source of truth, provide meaningful variance analysis, and translate financial results into actionable insights for senior leadership.

Essential Functions

• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes through financial modeling and consolidation activities.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness of consolidated actuals, forecasts, and long-range plans
• Conduct scenario analysis to help inform decisions based on ROI
• Understand and be able to explain to users, funds transfer pricing methodologies
• Identify and determine reporting frequency, format, and distribution
• Consolidate monthly, quarterly, forecast, budget, and strategic planning results across business units and legal entities
• Prepare and analyze financial reports, highlighting key variances, trends, risks, and opportunities for management.
• Partner with Accounting, Treasury, and business leaders to deliver timely financial insights and support decision-making
• Drive process improvements, automation, and reporting enhancements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
• Maintain strong internal controls over financial data, reporting, and consolidation processes
• Support internal and external audit requests related to financial reporting and planning activities

Additional Essential Functions

• Ensure compliance with Northwest’s policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations
• Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency
• Work as part of a team
• Work with on-site equipment

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education

Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Business Management

Work Experience

8 - 12 years In Finance or related field

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of financial principles and balance sheet analysis
• Expertise in financial modeling and data analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• A detail-oriented, data-driven, and analytical mindset
• Excellent at data visualization and business storytelling
• Team Player
• Ability to analyze financial data
• Ability to influence cross-functionally

Northwest is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.