Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Senior Manager, Finance & FP&A

Location: Austin, Texas Reports to: Vice President, Finance & Treasury

The Opportunity

BusPatrol is looking for a high-impact Senior Manager, Finance & FP&A to help shape how we plan, invest, and scale. You will serve as a strategic finance partner to senior leadership—translating complex operating data into clear choices, sharper accountability, and actions that accelerate profitable growth.

You will own critical elements of the company’s planning, reporting and performance-management architecture and be deeply involved in other elements, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, executive reporting, KPI design, and decision-support models. You will work across Finance, Operations, Sales, Product, and other business functions to connect strategy to financial outcomes.

The role is highly visible, with regular exposure to the C-suite and the opportunity to influence decisions involving growth investments, cost structure, capacity planning, and capital allocation. The ideal candidate brings the strategic judgment of a business partner, the technical depth of an exceptional modeler, and the operating mindset to build processes that scale.

This role offers meaningful long-term growth. As BusPatrol expands, the scope can grow into broader ownership across FP&A, strategic finance, corporate development, and finance transformation—with increasing leadership responsibility and direct impact on the company’s trajectory.

What You’ll Own

Strategic Planning & Forecasting

Lead the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasting cycles, and long-range financial planning process from design through executive alignment.

Partner with functional and business-unit leaders to translate priorities and initiatives into, headcount plans, operating budgets, investment cases, and measurable outcomes.

Build planning processes that improve forecast accuracy, increase accountability, and make tradeoffs visible across the organization.

Develop and maintain driver-based forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, headcount, working capital, cash flow, and capital needs.

Establish clear variance-analysis routines that connect financial performance to operational drivers and recommended actions.

Decision Support & Financial Modeling

Build and oversee sophisticated financial models that support scenario planning, pricing, capacity decisions, cost optimization, capital allocation, strategic partnerships, and support M&A evaluation.

Demonstrate deep command of Excel-based modeling, including integrated three-statement models, sensitivity analysis, scenario architecture, data structuring, and model controls.

Apply advanced Excel capabilities—including PivotTables, SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH or XLOOKUP, arrays, Power Query, macros, as well as utilization of AI tools —to create scalable, high impact analyses. Will also leverage AI tools to scale routine processes and functions.

Develop DCF, ROI, payback, unit economics, and cash-flow analyses that help leaders evaluate risk, return, timing, and strategic fit.

Challenge assumptions constructively, identify the economic drivers behind performance, and turn analysis into a clear recommendation.

Performance Management & Executive Insight

Design and continuous improvement of consolidated KPI dashboards and performance reporting across business units, aligned to company strategy.

Prepare and lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, including segment-level performance, margin trends, operating metrics, forecast changes, and management actions.

Synthesize large and complex financial, operational, and external datasets into concise narratives for senior leadership, the Board, and other stakeholders.

Create a consistent connection between company objectives, functional scorecards, resource allocation, and financial results.

Finance Leadership & Operating Scale

Act as a trusted strategic finance partner to senior leaders and functional executives, helping them make better decisions faster.

Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives with financial implications, such as pricing strategy, cost transformation, business cases, organizational design, and investment prioritization.

Improve the quality, speed, and scalability of FP&A processes, reporting, systems, and controls as the company grows.

Partner with Accounting and System teams to improve data integrity, chart-of-accounts alignment, reporting structures, and adoption of planning tools.

Mentor and develop analysts and emerging finance talent, raising the standard for analytical rigor, communication, and business partnership.

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field; MBA or advanced coursework is a plus.

7 to 10 + years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, financial operations, investment banking, private equity, or public accounting.

Demonstrated experience leading annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and executive performance reporting in a complex or high-growth environment.

Expert-level Excel and financial-modeling capabilities. You can build a model from a blank workbook, explain every key assumption, pressure-test the outputs, and make the analysis usable by decision-makers.

Strong command of integrated three-statement modeling, DCF and ROI analysis, scenario planning, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Experience with ERP and CPM platforms such as NetSuite, Planful, Anaplan, or comparable systems; understanding of database structures and planning-model design is a plus.

Ability to translate strategy into financial drivers, financial results into operational insights, and analysis into decisive recommendations.

Executive presence and communication skills—clear, concise, confident, and comfortable presenting to C-suite.

Proven ability to influence, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and build strong partnerships across Finance and the broader business.

Experience with PowerPoint and data-visualization or storytelling tools such as ThinkCell, Lucidchart, Tableau, or comparable platforms.

A hands-on, high-accountability approach: you can operate at the 30,000-foot level while still diving into the details when the answer depends on it.

Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, strong organization, and a bias toward continuous improvement.

BusPatrol Value Proposition:

Who We Are

At BusPatrol, safety isn’t just a priority — it’s our mission. As the nation’s most trusted school bus stop-arm technology solution, we serve over 350 school districts, protecting nearly 2 million students across 30,000 buses. Every day, millions of children rely on school buses to get to and from school safely, yet reckless drivers continue to put them at risk.

As a technology company with a unique focus on public safety, we use cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and telematics to improve school bus safety. Our all-in-one safety program equips school bus fleets with AI-powered cameras, cloud-based data management, and an integrated software platform to capture and process stop-arm violations. Our safety programs foster accountability and reduce dangerous driving behavior in communities across the country.

By partnering with school districts, municipalities, and law enforcement, we make safety solutions more accessible and effective, ensuring that every child’s journey to and from school is as safe as possible.

What We Offer

When you join BusPatrol, you are not just taking a job. You are joining a mission-driven team dedicated to making a real impact. We offer:

✔ Competitive salary and benefits package

✔ Unlimited PTO

✔ A purpose-driven career, working to protect children and improve public safety

✔ The occasion to participate in BusPatrol’s culture of safety, learning, and teamwork

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