[Hiring] Manager of Expense Forecasting and Business Support @MRIoA

Role Description

The Manager of Expense Forecasting and Business Support is responsible for leading expense planning, forecasting, analysis, and business partnership activities across the organization. This role serves as a key finance partner to business leaders, providing actionable insights, expense performance reporting, variance analysis, and decision support to help manage costs, improve forecast accuracy, and support strategic and operational priorities.

• Lead a team of two analysts focusing on providing support to the business and developing talent.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of expense forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans.
• Partner with department leaders to understand expense drivers, staffing needs, vendor costs, operational trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly expense reporting, including budget-to-actual variance analysis, forecast updates, and executive-ready commentary.
• Identify trends, cost pressures, savings opportunities, and performance gaps; recommend practical actions to improve financial results.
• Support business leaders with financial modeling, scenario analysis, investment cases, workforce planning, and ad hoc decision support.
• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, data quality, and planning processes.
• Coordinate with Accounting, FP&A, Operations, HR, IT, and other functional teams to ensure expense forecasts align with business activity and financial reporting.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, management reporting packages, and recurring analyses that provide clear visibility into expense performance.
• Support month-end close processes by reviewing expense results, accruals, reclasses, and key variances in partnership with Accounting.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to analysts or cross-functional partners involved in forecasting and business support activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, expense management, corporate finance, business support, or a related finance role.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and management reporting.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience using financial planning, ERP, business intelligence, or reporting tools.
• Ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-level communication.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business leaders and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• BBA with a focus on Financial concepts, accounting, or analytics. MBA not required but helpful.
• Experience supporting expense forecasting in a healthcare, technology, professional services, insurance, or business services environment. Private Equity exposure is also helpful.
• Experience with workforce planning, vendor spend analysis, cost center reporting, or shared services financial support.
• Experience building scalable reporting processes, dashboards, and planning templates.
• Experience with Sage or Cube Planning tools are helpful.
• Development of Staff and experience working with offshore teams.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• Benefits include healthcare, vision and dental insurance, a generous 401k match, paid vacation, personal time, and holidays.
• Growth and training opportunities.
• An award-winning remote work environment.