The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a strategic finance leader responsible for enterprise planning, forecasting, management reporting, and decision support across a multi-site industrial business. The role partners closely with executives, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to translate business drivers into actionable financial insights, strengthen performance management, and support profitable growth. This position leads the FP&A and accounting functions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the annual budget, long-range plan, and rolling forecast processes, ensuring clear assumptions, ownership, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Deliver timely management reporting, including variance analysis, business-driver commentary, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with commercial and operations leaders on revenue, volume, price, mix, material cost, labor, overhead, productivity, inventory, and capital-spending analysis.
• Develop scenario models and business cases for growth initiatives, pricing decisions, capacity investments, footprint optimization, acquisitions, and other strategic actions.
• Establish and maintain key performance indicators, dashboards, and standardized reporting that improve accountability and decision-making across locations and functions.
• Provide forward-looking insights on profitability, cash flow, working capital, and return on investment; recommend corrective actions when performance is off plan.
• Support executive and board-level presentations with concise, decision-oriented analysis and a clear financial narrative.
• Improve planning tools, data quality, reporting automation, and financial processes in partnership with accounting, information technology, and business teams.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing FP&A team with strong analytical, business-partnering, and communication capabilities.
• Promote a disciplined control environment and ensure planning and reporting activities comply with company policies and applicable requirements.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field; MBA, CPA, CMA, or similar credential preferred.
• 5 or more years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success in manufacturing, distribution, industrial products, or another operationally complex, multi-site environment.
• Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, and cash-flow drivers.
• Advanced proficiency with enterprise resource planning, planning, business-intelligence, and spreadsheet tools; experience improving systems and automating reporting preferred.
• Experience leading and developing teams through change, evolving priorities, and tight reporting cycles.
• Knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting standards, IFRS knowledge a plus
• Experience with financial software and ERP systems (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, Visual, Epicor) and consolidation software (Hyperion, Adaptive) is a plus.