SENIOR FINANCIAL MANAGER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 16, 2025 - The Senior Financial Manager establishes strong cross-functional collaboration to enhance stock behaviors and understanding of stock movements while ensuring clear and timely stock reconciliations with robust accounting controls. This position led to the development of stock accounting policies and improved financial reporting, supporting strategic decision-making and operational process efficiency. This role oversees monthly closing, stock audits, and financial planning activities while mentoring junior team members and delivering analytical insights to senior leadership.

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1. Senior Financial Manager, Harlan Group Solutions, Concord, NH

Job Summary: 

  • Recognizes and rewards good collaboration and diversity of thought.
  • Lead by example and role model collaboration with a diversity of thought to achieve innovative business results.
  • Leverage technology within the job scope to increase collaboration.
  • Develop tools and competencies in work groups or teams to accelerate sharing and partnership.
  • Uses collaboration and diversity of thought to drive faster results within the job scope.
  • Effectively adapts the engagement model to accelerate the collection and analysis of shared data
  • Manage Team Member Performance and Development
  • Coach and provide career development
  • Identify strengths and create a specific development plan according to the evaluated needs
  • Establish goals and conduct performance appraisals
  • Provide recognition and drive accountability
  • Coordinate systems and process training opportunities


Skills on Resume: 

  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)  
  • Diversity of Thought (Soft Skills)  
  • Technology Utilization (Hard Skills)  
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Performance Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Coaching (Soft Skills)  
  • Career Development Planning (Soft Skills)  
  • Training Coordination (Hard Skills)

2. Senior Financial Manager, Wexford Business Partners, Fayetteville, AR

Job Summary: 

  • Manage the finance team to ensure client interfaces and reporting are accurate and provided on a timely basis
  • Preparation of contract price variations and contractual pricing adjustments
  • Manage Corporate Month End, forecasting and budgeting processes and associated
  • Drive all critical projects related to the successful financial management of these client Accounts, including Peer Reviews, Benchmarking, and any other reasonable projects required from time to time.
  • Manage the client's Finance relationship to encourage a partnering approach to the work environment
  • Drive continuous improvement around core accounting controls, processes, and month-end responsibilities
  • Support systems implementation and ongoing operations to ensure benefits are maximized for the Account(s)
  • Provide effective leadership, and direction and drive the development of the JLL Finance team.
  • Forecasting, planning, reporting, or analysis for businesses.
  • Create reports, analyses, and financial models for use by leaders to evaluate businesses, including identifying trends/variances
  • Data management and operational support
  • Team and cross-functional communication
  • Work on revenue, cost, headcount, product, process or operational initiatives


Skills on Resume: 

  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Contract Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)  
  • Client Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Cross Communication (Soft Skills)

3. Senior Financial Manager, Andora Financial Consulting, Rock Hill, SC

Job Summary: 

  • Providing both support and challenge in the development and review of business case proposals and applying sensitivity analysis to the inherent risks and opportunities.
  • Robust analytical review with recommendations on maximizing further financial return.
  • Decision-making support Lead on ensuring that budgets are managed by liaising with budget holders to take corrective action on budget variances
  • Prepare quarterly forecasts, ensuring that the process is continually improved in terms of data quality and analytical insight
  • Preparation of the annual budgets, ensuring the process is robust including the provision of high-quality analytical insight, and providing budget input in line with agreed timescales.
  • Manage and develop the finance team to ensure that a quality service is being delivered.
  • Internal Controls, Process Efficiency, and Effectiveness monitoring and development of internal control system to ensure that finances are well controlled and operate on the preferred corporate system and process.
  • Work with the Head of Finance to establish an effective risk management framework
  • Develop a close partnership with the central Finance Office to ensure transactional support is delivered in a controlled, effective, and efficient manner.
  • Ownership and development of the monthly reporting cycle
  • Liaison and responsibility for audit and statutory reporting
  • Build processes to establish company-wide awareness of budgets and forecasting
  • Scenario planning for future group strategic options


Skills on Resume: 

  • Business Support (Soft Skills)  
  • Risk Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Decision Support (Soft Skills)  
  • Forecast Preparation (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Planning (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Development (Soft Skills)  
  • Internal Controls (Hard Skills)  
  • Scenario Planning (Hard Skills)

4. Senior Financial Manager, Bellington Accounting Group, Yakima, WA

Job Summary: 

  • Build strong relationships with the commercial and operational teams, both in the Head Office and on-site in CFCs, to embed better stock behaviors and drive a greater understanding of stock movements
  • Own the accounting treatment of stock for Ocado Retail, ensure stock reconciliations are clear and delivered on time, with robust and well-documented controls
  • Ensure ORL has appropriate stock accounting policies e.g. aged stock provision, Goods received not invoiced provision, etc.
  • Develop better weekly and periodic reporting to allow for better stock decision-making
  • Deep dive into operational process issues to improve financial control
  • Build relationships with the commercial and operational teams to embed better stock behaviors and a greater understanding of stock movements
  • Drive better commercial decision-making
  • Complete month-end processes, ensuring clean balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Take ownership and lead the annual stock audit of external stock locations
  • Lead and develop more junior members of the stock team
  • Provide financial budgetary and contract support to perform statistical analysis to formulate analytical reports for senior leadership.
  • Provide funding, forecasting, programming, budget information, execution status, and funds reconciliation
  • Document, monitor, collect, collate, annotate and promulgate obligations/expenditure rates of committed funds


Skills on Resume: 

  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)  
  • Stock Accounting (Hard Skills)  
  • Policy Development (Hard Skills)  
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)  
  • Decision Making (Soft Skills)  
  • Balance Reconciliation (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)

5. Senior Financial Manager, Trivance Holdings LLC, Broken Arrow, OK

Job Summary: 

  • Work collaboratively with HR partners to identify and understand challenges and propose creative solutions
  • Champion technology and automation, including the implementation of new operational tools
  • Partner directly with the business operations managers of the Amazonian Experience and Technology (AET) team to standardize reporting, metrics, goals, and business reviews
  • Dive into the financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights
  • Build and foster effective relationships and networks within the team
  • Articulate business results and recommendations and presenting to senior management
  • Manage and develop a team of Finance Managers, Senior Analysts, and Analysts
  • Work with DOD customers on financial management on Research and Engineering projects.
  • Work with a team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals.
  • Receive a robust benefits package that includes an Employee Stock Ownership Plan!
  • Enjoy flexibility in managing work hours and personal needs with a single accrual leave plan.
  • Co-lead infrastructure cashflow forecasting rhythms and analysis in support of the Global Microsoft cashflow initiative
  • Actively manage global payment exception terms to drive continuous improvement in company cash flow


Skills on Resume: 

  • Creative Solutions (Soft Skills)  
  • Technology Implementation (Hard Skills)  
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Business Reporting (Hard Skills)  
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)  
  • Team Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Cashflow Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Financial Management (Hard Skills)

6. Senior Financial Manager, Corepath Solutions Inc., Chico, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Working across teams to determine the financial sustainability in support of new business deals
  • Assisting tech teams in identifying AWS cost reduction opportunities and prioritizing requests
  • Develop financial models to quickly prove out new product and feature proposals
  • Develop long-term financial planning processes for new product
  • Presenting financial summaries and business insights to senior management
  • Management and development of a highly effective team
  • Timely month/quarter close Journal Entries, Reports, and Variance Explanations
  • Financial projections including Short Range Outlook, AOP, and Forecasts
  • Maintain process documentation and drive continuous improvement
  • Problem solve back-end systems and process gaps
  • Drive and lead financial processes for capital investments, which include budgeting, month-end close, forecasting, reporting, and analysis related to Real Estate Capital
  • Provide monitoring and constant accuracy, process, and compliance metrics improvement
  • Partner with the GWS Global CAPEX and Strategy team on real estate investment proposals and manage the Real Estate Capital Council process
  • Drive key initiatives and projects in partnership with the GWS business to generate process efficiencies, cost savings, and internal control improvements
  • Help business leaders optimize the allocation of resources and improve overall decision-making


Skills on Resume: 

  • Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Reduction (Hard Skills)
  • Forecasting Accuracy (Hard Skills)
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
  • Capital Budgeting (Hard Skills)

7. Senior Financial Manager, Denlor Management Firm, Missoula, MT

Job Summary: 

  • Engage key players to help make the best decision.
  • Test assumptions and validate or refute them.
  • Deal Comfortably with the Senior Manager
  • Frame issues for senior manager disposition with crispness and conciseness.
  • Handle tough questions directly and positively.
  • Build Positive, Productive, and Lasting Relationships
  • Utilize or leverage peers to gather constructive input, and form reciprocal relationships with peers.
  • Pulse the relevant experts to gather multiple opinions and discover opposing views.
  • Efficiently use his/her network to stay current on the existing organization and broader Micron objectives.
  • Look to build processes and analytics to encourage not discourage collaboration.
  • Identify gaps in goal alignment and work to align goals.
  • Plan projects to utilize collaboration including plans to overcome barriers to success and opportunities to get diverse viewpoints that will support innovative ideas.
  • Influence corporate strategies through collaborative efforts and diversity of thought to achieve innovation and enhanced results.
  • Challenge finance leadership on instances not effectively collaborating and/or leveraging the diversity of thought.
  • Set tone through actions that show that collaboration and diversity of thought are advantages.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Decision Making (Soft Skills)  
  • Assumption Validation (Hard Skills)  
  • Senior Communication (Soft Skills)  
  • Issue Framing (Soft Skills)  
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)  
  • Peer Collaboration (Soft Skills)  
  • Goal Alignment (Soft Skills)  
  • Strategic Influence (Soft Skills)

8. Senior Financial Manager, Fairbrooke Financials, Cheyenne, WY

Job Summary: 

  • Managing monthly Volume and Net Sales forecasting process (GPS), including driving cross-functional alignment around underlying consumption and demand, supply constraints, pricing and promotional activity and other fixed trade components
  • Understanding and articulating topline and bottom line variances versus previous forecasts and prior periods, and managing all required reporting and management deliverables for the month-, quarter- and year-end close
  • Lead the preparation of the annual Strategic Plan and Annual Operating Plan (AOP), working closely with cross-functional business partners, Finance leadership, and the BU General Manager
  • Manage all innovation and productivity project analysis, including BU P&L impact and prioritization
  • Present project financials at weekly CHC Leadership Decision Team meetings in a way that facilitates sound and efficient decision-making
  • Owning the A&P budget, including budgeting, forecasting, allocating funds across brands and spending categories, establishing and adjusting budget phasing as business needs change and solving funding gaps
  • Identify any potential launch risks/ issues, and ensure all potential launch risks/ issues are properly communicated and managed through effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
  • Define/ articulate requirements, orchestrating effectively with cross-functional and downstream partners to design, test and deliver financially-compliant capabilities and processes.
  • Ensure all finance-related project milestones, deliverables, go-lives, deployment dates, etc. are met and any changes are appropriately communicated and managed.
  • Engage with Engineering teams to prioritize finance requirements.
  • Develop and maintain all applicable project documentation.
  • Responsible for building, developing and maintaining highly collaborative and effective working relationships with Finance Stakeholder teams, and other operational partners to facilitate proactive planning, smooth communication and issue resolution.
  • Help evolve Finance Readiness processes and infrastructure for more efficient and effective launch capabilities within the organization


Skills on Resume: 

  • Sales Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)  
  • Project Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Mitigation (Soft Skills)  
  • Process Design (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)

9. Senior Financial Manager, Valcor Strategic Finance, Bismarck, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Provide budgetary and financial guidance to the project management team and support annual budget preparations to inform the overall Fermilab budget plan.
  • Prepare and distribute monthly and ad-hoc financial reports.
  • Assist with the preparation of projections for near-term financial planning and forecasts for future planning cycles.
  • Utilize standard tools to obtain financial information from Fermilab financial systems and develop methods and procedures for specific budgeting and/or financial activities within the PIP-II organization.
  • Oversee and monitor project funding.
  • Assist the scientific and technical staff in establishing budget estimates.
  • Prepare and maintain the Project Accounting Task Structure.
  • Approve PIP-II purchase requisitions and ensure that adequate funds are available.
  • Act as point of contact with Fermilab Budget Office and Accounting Department.
  • Respect understand and value individual differences that embody the principles of diversity.
  • Abide by all environmental, safety, and health regulations.
  • Oversight of cash control and total corporate tax compliance
  • Respond to the CFO and VP of Finance with accurate and timely work
  • Participate in a variety of special projects such as M&A, business integrations, software, and data conversions


Skills on Resume: 

  • Financial Guidance (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Preparation (Hard Skills)  
  • Forecast Planning (Hard Skills)  
  • Project Funding (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Estimation (Hard Skills)  
  • Task Structuring (Hard Skills)  
  • Compliance Oversight (Hard Skills)  
  • Diversity Awareness (Soft Skills)

10. Senior Financial Manager, Oakridge Capital Group, Altoona, PA

Job Summary: 

  • Assist with the preparation of the Annual Integrated Report
  • Assisting with the preparation of Annual Impairment tests
  • Manage the Budget and forecast process
  • Consolidation of Divisional budgets (I/S, B/S, CF, and Capex) and preparation of Budget pack
  • Divisional WC Review and Commentary
  • Preparation and Distribution of Divisional Reporting Packs
  • Review and consolidation of a monthly rolling forecast
  • Review of monthly internal IFRS packs and internal tax packs.
  • Hedge of Management, interest rate and FX hedging
  • Review of Inventory Balances to the Management System and approve Payroll from HR
  • Set and Review of Annual KPI’s for self and staff
  • Develop appropriate internal controls to minimize financial risk
  • Cash management and cash flow reporting, working with AP/AR, VP of Finance, CFO, vendors/customers and banks
  • Regular support and coordination of information and workflow/projects with division controllers and other internal teams
  • Establish relationships and work with external stakeholders e.g. commercial bankers, private equity owners, lending groups, auditors


Skills on Resume: 

  • Report Preparation (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Forecast Consolidation (Hard Skills)  
  • Divisional Reporting (Hard Skills)  
  • Hedge Management (Hard Skills)  
  • KPI Setting (Hard Skills)  
  • Cash Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Relations (Soft Skills)

11. Senior Financial Manager, Vensura Economic Advisors, Roanoke, VA

Job Summary: 

  • Examine the property management accounts review.
  • Sign-off on Portfolio Property income statements and balance sheets per building.
  • Examine age analysis and collections analysis, Weekly/Monthly.
  • Examine/review monthly payments.
  • Examine monthly, quarterly, interim, and annual reviews.
  • Monthly Procurement Review for BE
  • Ensure adequate financial control systems are in place.
  • Assist with the preparation and review of annual budgets as well as forecasts, together with the Financial Manager, Commercial Portfolio Manager
  • Manage the credit process and support the credit manager to ensure maximum cash flow
  • Supports the Commercial portfolio manager
  • Supports the financial manager in ensuring all payments are made in timely and according to accepted accounting practices.
  • Manage and ensure financial processes as performed by the financial manager and all reporting is done on a timely and accurate basis.
  • Ensure that full and comprehensive accounting records are maintained at all times.
  • Perform Administrator roles in online banking


Skills on Resume: 

  • Account Review (Hard Skills)  
  • Statement Signoff (Hard Skills)  
  • Payment Review (Hard Skills)  
  • Procurement Review (Hard Skills)  
  • Financial Controls (Hard Skills)  
  • Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Credit Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Banking Administration (Hard Skills)

12. Senior Financial Manager, Greenfield Finance Solutions, Albany, NY

Job Summary: 

  • Manage users on banking platforms
  • Release payments on different banking platforms
  • Participates as an active and contributing member of the Senior Management Group and other sub-groups as appropriate
  • Liaison with Property System provider
  • Liaise with and represent the company to major customers/clients, suppliers and professional associations
  • As appropriate, assists and supports company marketing efforts and senior managers in effectively communicating with the Company’s current and prospective partners/tenants.
  • Provide Ad hoc transactional support and provide investor relationship assistance.
  • Provide acquisition and merger support.
  • Ensure appropriate leadership and direction of the Property Management Team.
  • Ensure that each team member has a career path.
  • Ensure the team is fully equipped and receives training, and ensure the team is leading a healthy life holistically.
  • Ensure the team is working and abiding by the company values, mission and vision and that HR policies and procedures are adhered to.
  • Communicate the organizational goals and strategy of the company.
  • Create a strategy for the team to meet the organizational goals and milestones to show progress.
  • Maintain team discipline and deal with IR matters swiftly and procedurally fairly.
  • Modeling that helps financial planning and analysis
  • Support the activities of the internal and external monthly financial statements, annual audits and annual budgets


Skills on Resume: 

  • User Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Payment Release (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Liaison (Soft Skills)  
  • Investor Support (Soft Skills)  
  • Merger Support (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Strategy Communication (Soft Skills)  
  • Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)