FP&A Manager

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) is a professional services organization supporting non-profits founded by Alice Walton, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges Foundation, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Whole Health Institute. Job Description: Position: Manager of FP&A Reporting to: Director of FP&A Location: Bentonville, Arkansas Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) is seeking a skilled, highly motivated, and entrepreneurial individual to join the team as Manager of FP&A. AWE supports operating non-profits founded by Alice Walton including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Whole Health Institute. About the Position: Members of the AWE FP&A Team serve as trusted partners, working closely with client entity leadership teams, AWE’s leadership team, and other stakeholders. This role is responsible for budgeting, financial reporting, and financial analysis for AWE and its client entities. This extends to creating presentations, narrative explanations, charts, waterfalls, pivot tables, spreadsheet summaries, and appendices to enable a comprehensive and clear understanding to inform decision making and track progress against financial objectives. The FP&A Manager will also support special projects and ad-hoc analysis, including the creation of complex financial models and involve engagement with client subject matter experts. What you will do: Key Roles & Responsibilities Supporting the budget, forecasting and management reporting process. Assist in preparing materials for executive, management, board of director meetings and other forums utilizing tools such as Canva or Adobe. Support production of detailed financial analytics to drive understanding of performance including major cost and income drivers and opportunity to optimize performance. Develop useful visualizations of financial and operational information to support an environment of data-driven decisions across the ecosystem. Maintain professionalism and strict confidentiality with all materials, and exercise discretion when interfacing within AWE and with clients. Monitor and assess team performance, identifying areas for improvement. Develop and implement strategies to enhance team productivity and effectiveness. Participate in mentoring, training, recruiting, retention, and team-building activities. Responsibilities occasionally may require an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours to meet deadlines. Work with large data sets that often require scrubbing to find usable information. Occasional administrative duties such as data entry and calendar coordination. Qualifications required for your success: Bachelor’s degree preferably in accounting, finance or related field, or equivalent experience; MBA or CPA a plus. 3 - 5 years of work experience in financial planning, forecasting and financial management. Proven experience in a leadership or managerial role. Ability to handle personnel issues and conflicts with professionalism. Demonstrated experience in financial modelling and analysis. Ability to manage large amounts of data. Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial data into easily understood information. Advanced knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel; Workday or Adaptive experience a plus. Superb professionalism and diplomacy; ability to interact with high-level individuals internally and externally. Proficiency in project management and resource allocation. Teamwork and collaboration skills. Personal attributes that support your success You are a team player and express servant-leadership when collaborating with others. You are results oriented and exercise sound judgment in your work. A lifelong learner, who is inquisitive and solves problems with bold thinking and innovation. A visionary who plans for the future with imagination and wisdom. Committed to building and modeling equitable systems, beginning with diversity, access, and inclusion. Cultivate strong relationships through building trust and acting with integrity with colleagues and leaders. Comfortable in a fast-pace, innovative environment where change is constant. Goal-setting individual with measured focus on operational excellence and results. Empowers colleagues through servant-leadership, while keeping bias for action in mind. Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical demands: Position requires utilizing a computer and telephone for prolonged periods of time, good eye/hand coordination, verbal, and written conversation with others, and lifting/carrying up to 10 lbs. Work environment: Work will be performed in an office environment full-time (Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM.) The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. Flexibility in working hours, including weekends and evenings, may be necessary to support operational needs. All offers of employment are contingent on your successful completion (where permitted by state law) of a confidentiality agreement, background check, credit check and drug screen. AWE requires all employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, or meet Arkansas state requirements, subject to accommodations. In addition, you will need to provide proper identification verifying your eligibility to work in the United States on your first day of work. AWE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building and maintaining a culturally diverse workplace. We encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status of protected veteran, among other things or status as a qualified individual with a disability. Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) provides professional support services in the areas of campus management, communications, finance, human resources and technology for these non-profits founded by Alice Walton: Alice L. Walton Foundation is a grant-making institution working to enhance the quality of life for individuals by providing access to offerings that improve well-being and create diverse and inclusive communities. Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is a four-year, medical degree-granting program that builds on foundational sciences and clinical practices with a compassionate, inclusive, and whole-person approach to care. Pending accreditation, the school will welcome its inaugural class in 2025. Art Bridges Foundation works to get great works of American art out of storage and into communities. Through partnerships with museums of all sizes across the United States, it creates and supports arts programs that educate, inspire, and deepen engagement with local audiences. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum offering free admission to a world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture and five miles of sculpture and walking trails. Momentary is a satellite contemporary art space to Crystal Bridges. This adaptive reuse project turned a decommissioned cheese factory into a place for visual and performing arts, festivals, artists-in-residence, culinary experiences, and more. Whole Health Institute is a non-profit that addresses physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being by working with health systems, employers, and communities to redesign health care delivery. To view positions open for a specific entity, select company and sort by entity name.