Senior FP&A Manager - The Toro Company

Who Are We?

Toro’s Irrigation and Lighting business is located in Riverside, CA. The Toro Company’s irrigation business is comprised of two distinct brands, Toro® and Irritrol®. Both brands offer a full line of solid, dependable, irrigation products including controllers, sensors, valves, spray heads and rotors to help customers care for golf courses, sports fields, public green spaces, commercial and residential properties. Unique Lighting Systems is a leading brand of professional grade lighting fixtures, low voltage transformers, LED lamps and the patented HUB system for installation. Serving both residential and commercial markets, Unique Lighting Systems offers a full line of outdoor lighting products.

Toro Ag is a leading supplier of drip irrigation solutions, service and support for agriculture, greenhouse, and horticulture applications. Through our complete system solutions, we help growers of permanent, field and row crops around the world realize substantial benefits in yield, quality, and water savings from the precise application of water and nutrients

Sr. Manager FP&A:

A senior member of the executive management team of the Toro Precision Irrigation division, this role understands the direction of the enterprise, collaborates with the rest of the management team to develop and execute short and long term divisional business strategies. This leader is a broad thinker who works directly with senior management, corporate functions and divisional personnel to drive continued growth and success of the Division and Enterprise.  As a senior finance leader, this position creates an environment of engagement and inclusion, directs all Divisional Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) activities to meet core business objectives and drive business strategy, as well as leads and manages to Corporate financial management and planning requirements. 

What Will You Do?

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for:  ​​​​

• Creates a finance environment that provides excellent service to its customers, is easy to do business with, has a sense of urgency, continuously improves, and quickly adapts to change.
• Works seamlessly with the FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) to coordinate analytical and reporting processes to effectively enable sound business decision-making.
• Works on the annual and long-term strategic financial planning process, setting strategic objectives, and developing specific action plans to deliver on strategy.
• Analyzes and outlines recommendations and alternatives for management on a wide variety of business opportunities, including the areas of capital expenditures, asset/liability management, lease vs. buy analysis.
• Utilizes existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools to provide meaningful analysis around actual financial results as compared to budgets, forecasts and prior year results.
• Implements, and manages an integrated plan for the accounting and financial control within Operations that is consistent with Corporate policies, procedures, and directives, and assures that generally accepted accounting principles are consistently applied.
• Implements and manages a system of internal controls to ensure the safeguarding of assets, the integrity of financial results, SOX internal control compliance and the efficient functioning of the Finance department.
• Oversees projection process to meet operations and corporate management requirements.  Projection process includes development of current forecasts of manufacturing costs, SG&A spending, divisional allocations as well as balance sheet metrics.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with key functional areas in Corporate, Operations and Divisions.
• Engages with others across the organization to develop the best possible solutions for the Enterprise (breaks down silos).   
• Position onsite for leadership level role #LI-Onsite    
• Travel around 10% (Global HQ in MN, manufacturing site support)          
• Performs other required duties as needed in addition to the essential duties and responsibilities described above, to meet the changing needs of the organization.

What Do You Need?

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business required; MBA, CPA or CMA desirable.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in financial and cost management, business planning and analysis with increasing scope and responsibility.
• Minimum 5 years of direct leadership experience, preferably leading multiple layers.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of financial and accounting principles and practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively to end users of all experience levels, in both oral and written communications.
• Able to efficiently and effectively prioritize multiple tasks.
• Critical thinker, with sound business judgment and exceptional business acumen.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Proven business and financial strategist.
• Able to maintain composure in stressful situations, in a highly interactive role.
• Customer-focused and results-oriented individual with a bias for action that permeates to the entire group.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills vital to anticipating, investigating and resolving issues.
• Curious learner, self-starter.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Able to use BI tools and systems to increase business performance, improve decision making and drive efficiency, accuracy and continuous improvement.