Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
- Seven years of diverse experience in corporate finance, accounting, or business.
- Two to three years of experience in a partnership role between finance and other departments.
- Experience working with OLAP-based tools such as TM1, Essbase, or Cognos.
- Demonstrated capability in financial metrics such as return on investment, internal rate of return, and net present value, as well as reporting and modeling including sensitivity scenarios.
- Extensive planning and budgeting capability, including capital planning.
- Knowledge of advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to analyze and conceptualize strategically.
- Ability to present information in understandable ways to a diverse audience.
- Ability to work closely with department heads and executives to define issues and business needs, influence change, and apply strong business acumen.
- Ability to manage several tasks simultaneously and work under time pressure.
- Ability to work at both a big-picture and detailed level.
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and networking skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Capability to use change management to improve business performance.
- Ability to proactively identify and resolve the partner group's financial challenges and opportunities.
- Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback openly and objectively.
- Ability to express views diplomatically, challenge others, and influence change.
- Extremely ethical.
- Provide analysis, business insights, and financial support to executive management and functional partner groups.
- Serve as the financial expert for the functional partner group's business, proactively catalyze change, and support the group in achieving its financial objectives.
- Play a key role in the budgeting, financial planning, and analysis processes.
- Partner with the business as a financial expert.
- Influence business decisions by anticipating executive management's and partner groups' financial and informational needs and providing relevant information.
- Develop business case models to justify and prioritize potential investments, and assess operational and financial performance of projects and investments.
- Track capital projects and assist in developing capital requests.
- Coordinate periodic reforecast efforts with each department head.
- Produce and publish monthly financial reports and dashboard metrics.
- Prepare company-level analysis and reports as appropriate.
- Assist in administering and maintaining the OLAP-based financial system.
- Assist partners in managing monthly departmental accruals.
- Work with partners to manage the headcount reconciliation process.
- Review monthly departmental financials with department heads.
- Understand the company's accounting policies, procedures, and methodologies, and support communication of them to the internal organization.
- Identify opportunities to improve business, accounting, and budgeting processes, policies, and methodologies, and implement improvements.
- International and business development modeling experience is strongly preferred.
- An MBA is strongly preferred.
- Experience within a media company is a plus.
- Experience within a cable network or other media company is preferred.
About the company
The Weather Company gathers and distributes precise, high-volume weather data and uses AI-powered analytics to turn it into actionable insights for businesses and consumers. It serves hundreds of enterprise customers across media, advertising, aviation, and other sectors, and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly users through The Weather Channel and Weather Underground. Its product combines reliable weather data with advanced technology to deliver tailored forecasts, alerts, and weather-driven decision support that can be integrated across digital platforms and enterprise systems. Unlike many competitors, it emphasizes privacy-friendly data handling, scale, and trusted reliability across multiple industries and large audiences. The company’s goal is to help people and businesses make more informed decisions and take timely actions based on weather, by providing scalable, accurate weather intelligence that can be embedded into products and workflows.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Founded
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026 Redfin made Weather Company the exclusive historical weather provider.
- March 2026 United renewed a multi-year weather intelligence contract after fifteen years.
- August 2026 Kalshi partnership adds weather probabilities to weather.com and the app.
What critics are saying
- 2019 privacy litigation still shadows Weather Channel's location-data practices and ad targeting.
- Google, Apple, and smartphone OS weather widgets can erase consumer traffic overnight.
- Kalshi probabilities commoditize forecast pages, shifting traffic and pricing power toward exchanges.
What makes The Weather Company unique
- April 2026 MITRE deal gives Weather Company exclusive Weather 1K training data.
- March 2025 JEDI operational use ties its forecasts to frontier assimilation science.
- weather.com reaches hundreds of millions, giving consumer and enterprise models unmatched distribution.
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Benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Hybrid Work Options
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Company Match
- Family Planning Benefits