Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Overview

This Director will serve as a strategic finance leader accountable for shaping the FP&A vision, elevating enterprise decision‑making, and developing a high‑performing team that supports the company’s long‑term financial strategy. Lead partnership with finance, sales, operations, IT, and senior management to provide clarity and enable solid business decisions through financial insight and metrics-based analysis via Excel and other Windows-based software. This position will play a key role in leading the budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, implementation, and business strategic analysis of the FP&A team. Structured problem solving, teamwork, communication and presentation skills are critical as the candidate will drive solutions with senior leaders across the organization including members of the executive team. This Director, FP&A role will report to the Vice President, FP&A. This position will have direct reports and will be responsible for people management duties.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value-added business analyses and report financial and operational metrics with executive management and senior leaders.
• Own the process for preparing financial statements and financial models, including scenario planning.
• Lead executive-level focused discussions by leveraging complex data sets to drive business insights and identify risks/opportunities.
• Interact proactively and collaboratively with executive management and senior leaders on a regular basis.
• Oversee the development of complex financial models and ensure analytical rigor across the FP&A team.
• Review and summarize large sets of financial data with the ability to independently arrive at actional conclusions and the ability to appropriately communicate directly with key executive management and senior leader-level stakeholders.
• Lead key and complex components of the annual budget and quarterly forecasting process with input and guidance from FP&A VP and CFO. Ability to assign and review components prepared by other FP&A team members
• Review analysis results, develop insightful suggestions for investment, sourcing, cost reduction, and lead strategic business decisions.
• Enhance credibility and business partnership by providing financial expertise, being responsive and solution-oriented, thorough communication, and challenging business units and leaders appropriately.
• Ensure FP&A team maintains an understanding of key industry association reports, relevant benchmarking, and competitive financial analyses.
• Prioritize ad hoc strategic initiatives and guide the team in producing high‑impact analyses.
• Protect the organization's value by keeping financial information confidential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years’ experience in finance and/or accounting.
• Enthusiastic, visionary leader with integrity and interpersonal skills to influence and inspire others.
• Proven ability to interview, hire and develop medium-to-large sized teams. Responsible for leading 1:1s, oversee performance management process for direct reports, and other people management duties as needed.
• Demonstrable change management experience required.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to create solutions where policies/procedures may not exist.
• Strong team player with the ability to drive consensus with ‘business-first’ mindset while working across departments and functions.
• Exceptional business judgment; ability to make decisions and/or provide insight with less than perfect information while maintaining judgment to determine if VP engagement is helpful vs necessary.
• Strong interpersonal skills; strong presentation and communication skills; proven ability to independently engage and partner with executive management and senior leaders.
• Significant experience in complex budgeting, data analysis, and forecasting required.
• Advanced technical ability in Excel required.
• Ability to model ROI/NPV and liquidity (cash flow) related analyses preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and be a leader of a medium-to-large sized team.
• Must have an exceptional emphasis on quality control of large data sets, accuracy of data, and timeliness of deliverables.
• Strong ability to take raw large, complex data sets, identify patterns, and trends to accurately predict/project future results.
• Must be detail-oriented, strong ability to multi-task and have an analytical mindset.
• Must be able to lead, prioritize and create delivery timelines and project plans.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint) required.
• Proven project management experience required.

Preferences:

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics F&O, Great Plains, and/or Peoplesoft software preferred.
• Experience with PowerBI and SQL/relational databases preferred.

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