About the role
About the Role
The FP&A Manager will be a critical member of finance team, delivering insights that shape strategic and operational decisions. This is a hands-on role without direct reports, ideal for someone who wants to combine technical expertise, business partnering, and financial leadership.
In addition to leading forecasting and planning, this role will play a central part in developing the company’s reporting and analytics capabilities through SAP and other tools. The FP&A Manager will work closely with operations, commercial, and supply chain to uncover drivers of performance, simplify complexity, and accelerate profitable growth.
Key Responsibilities
1. Build Next-Gen Finance Analytics & Reporting
- Develop SAP-based and database-driven reporting for revenue, gross margin, and complexity analysis (customer, product, and program).
- Structure and manage fixed cost reporting and analysis to identify savings opportunities across the business.
- Design and implement dashboards and ad hoc reports using SAP Analytics or other BI tools.
- Translate data into actionable insights with clear, compelling storytelling.
- Partner with IT and business teams to ensure clean, structured, and reliable financial data.
2. Partner Across Operations, Commercial, and Supply Chain
- Break down price, volume, and mix impacts to isolate performance drivers.
- Work with cross-functional leaders to identify opportunities to expand margins and drive profitable growth.
- Provide insights into cost structures and operational drivers to inform better business decisions.
3. FP&A Leadership & Forecasting
- Support P&L forecasting process, from top line, gross margin, costs, to EBITDA with accuracy and discipline.
- Support and coordinate the annual planning cycle and calendar, ensuring alignment across all functions.
- Support monthly and quarterly reporting cycles, including variance analysis, executive summaries, and board materials.
- Build and maintain robust financial models for pricing, business cases, and scenario planning.
- Challenge the status quo by identifying opportunities to simplify and improve processes.
What You Bring
- 5–8 years of progressive FP&A or finance experience, ideally within CPG, retail, or manufacturing.
- Strong expertise in forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis across revenue, margin, cost, and EBITDA.
- Hands-on experience with SAP (S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, or similar); skilled in using existing databases and simplifying complex data sets.
- Proficiency in data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
- Highly organized, analytical, and detail-oriented, with a focus on simplification and clarity.
- Strong communication skills, able to partner effectively across commercial, operations, and supply chain.
- A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Nice-to-Haves
- MBA, CFA and/or CPA
- Experience in a private equity-backed environment
- Experience in a food / snacking environment
- Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
- Involvement in ERP transitions or system implementations
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts
Soft Skills & Fit
- Analytical and detail-oriented with strong business acumen
- Curious, collaborative, and eager to solve messy, real-world data problems
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Excellent communicator who can distill complex data into actionable insights
- Demonstrated capability to build relationships and work effectively across all areas of the business.
Location of this position: Toronto, Canada - Hybrid (3 times/week)
Why build your carrer at Meta?
We offer autonomy, clear goals and a dynamic and challenging environment, where professionals have the opportunity to interact with different technologies, participate in all types of projects, bring new ideas and work from anywhere in Brazil and (why not?) anywhere in the world. In addition, we are one of the best companies to work for in Brazil according to Great Place to Work and one of the 10 fastest growing technology companies in the country for 3 consecutive years, according to Anuário Informático Hoje.
What are our values?
- We are people serving people
- We all think and act like owners
- We are hungry for performance
- We grow and learn together
- We pursue excellence and simplicity
- We have innovation and creativity in our DNA
All people are welcome regardless of their condition, disability, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation, appearance, age or others. We want you to grow up with us in a welcoming environment full of opportunities.
Did you relate? Then, #ComeBeMeta!
About Meta IT
Meta is an IT Consulting Company which has been in the market for 30 years. Meta is consistently choosing to help customers overcome their IT challenges. The company can provide consulting expertise to support IT strategy, software development, outsourced operations, staff augmentation, and SAP Projects. With our experience, we can deploy complete agile projects with coaches and scrum masters. We will assist you to select the right technologies for your company's needs aligned with your digital road map. We ensure quality with our commitment, attested through our Level 3 version 2.0 CMMI certification. Additionally, Gartner recognized that Meta always provides quality and value to its customers. As a Silver SAP provider and an SAP partner for the last 20 years, Meta continually trains staff to prepare them for the next big challenge. Meta implemented the first public S/4 HANA system in the World and the first S/4 HANA implementation with a private company in Latin America. This experience provides confidence that our teams execute outstanding results. Meta can offer a real S/4HANA testbed with your data to test drive your future SAP system. Meta can support your existing SAP instances, help with technical expertise in your transformation, and provide a complete transformation team. We at Meta always work hard to see our clients succeed. Our purpose is to promote human growth with technology.
About the role
About the Role
The FP&A Manager will be a critical member of finance team, delivering insights that shape strategic and operational decisions. This is a hands-on role without direct reports, ideal for someone who wants to combine technical expertise, business partnering, and financial leadership.
In addition to leading forecasting and planning, this role will play a central part in developing the company’s reporting and analytics capabilities through SAP and other tools. The FP&A Manager will work closely with operations, commercial, and supply chain to uncover drivers of performance, simplify complexity, and accelerate profitable growth.
Key Responsibilities
1. Build Next-Gen Finance Analytics & Reporting
- Develop SAP-based and database-driven reporting for revenue, gross margin, and complexity analysis (customer, product, and program).
- Structure and manage fixed cost reporting and analysis to identify savings opportunities across the business.
- Design and implement dashboards and ad hoc reports using SAP Analytics or other BI tools.
- Translate data into actionable insights with clear, compelling storytelling.
- Partner with IT and business teams to ensure clean, structured, and reliable financial data.
2. Partner Across Operations, Commercial, and Supply Chain
- Break down price, volume, and mix impacts to isolate performance drivers.
- Work with cross-functional leaders to identify opportunities to expand margins and drive profitable growth.
- Provide insights into cost structures and operational drivers to inform better business decisions.
3. FP&A Leadership & Forecasting
- Support P&L forecasting process, from top line, gross margin, costs, to EBITDA with accuracy and discipline.
- Support and coordinate the annual planning cycle and calendar, ensuring alignment across all functions.
- Support monthly and quarterly reporting cycles, including variance analysis, executive summaries, and board materials.
- Build and maintain robust financial models for pricing, business cases, and scenario planning.
- Challenge the status quo by identifying opportunities to simplify and improve processes.
What You Bring
- 5–8 years of progressive FP&A or finance experience, ideally within CPG, retail, or manufacturing.
- Strong expertise in forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis across revenue, margin, cost, and EBITDA.
- Hands-on experience with SAP (S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, or similar); skilled in using existing databases and simplifying complex data sets.
- Proficiency in data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
- Highly organized, analytical, and detail-oriented, with a focus on simplification and clarity.
- Strong communication skills, able to partner effectively across commercial, operations, and supply chain.
- A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Nice-to-Haves
- MBA, CFA and/or CPA
- Experience in a private equity-backed environment
- Experience in a food / snacking environment
- Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
- Involvement in ERP transitions or system implementations
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts
Soft Skills & Fit
- Analytical and detail-oriented with strong business acumen
- Curious, collaborative, and eager to solve messy, real-world data problems
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Excellent communicator who can distill complex data into actionable insights
- Demonstrated capability to build relationships and work effectively across all areas of the business.
Location of this position: Toronto, Canada - Hybrid (3 times/week)
Why build your carrer at Meta?
We offer autonomy, clear goals and a dynamic and challenging environment, where professionals have the opportunity to interact with different technologies, participate in all types of projects, bring new ideas and work from anywhere in Brazil and (why not?) anywhere in the world. In addition, we are one of the best companies to work for in Brazil according to Great Place to Work and one of the 10 fastest growing technology companies in the country for 3 consecutive years, according to Anuário Informático Hoje.
What are our values?
- We are people serving people
- We all think and act like owners
- We are hungry for performance
- We grow and learn together
- We pursue excellence and simplicity
- We have innovation and creativity in our DNA
All people are welcome regardless of their condition, disability, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation, appearance, age or others. We want you to grow up with us in a welcoming environment full of opportunities.
Did you relate? Then, #ComeBeMeta!
About Meta IT
Meta is an IT Consulting Company which has been in the market for 30 years. Meta is consistently choosing to help customers overcome their IT challenges. The company can provide consulting expertise to support IT strategy, software development, outsourced operations, staff augmentation, and SAP Projects. With our experience, we can deploy complete agile projects with coaches and scrum masters. We will assist you to select the right technologies for your company's needs aligned with your digital road map. We ensure quality with our commitment, attested through our Level 3 version 2.0 CMMI certification. Additionally, Gartner recognized that Meta always provides quality and value to its customers. As a Silver SAP provider and an SAP partner for the last 20 years, Meta continually trains staff to prepare them for the next big challenge. Meta implemented the first public S/4 HANA system in the World and the first S/4 HANA implementation with a private company in Latin America. This experience provides confidence that our teams execute outstanding results. Meta can offer a real S/4HANA testbed with your data to test drive your future SAP system. Meta can support your existing SAP instances, help with technical expertise in your transformation, and provide a complete transformation team. We at Meta always work hard to see our clients succeed. Our purpose is to promote human growth with technology.