Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

The successful candidate will provide tremendous finance and business leadership to the organization. This individual will be a trusted partner and advisor to the VP of Sales, VP of Operations, and Senior Director of Operations and broader leadership team. H/She will help lead the development of the division’s plan to drive growth and operating margin expansion. H/She will possess sound business judgement, demonstrate authenticity and transparency, strong presentation skills, excellent verbal and written communication abilities, global experience, strong accounting knowledge, strong FP&A abilities, understanding of SOX, ERP implementations and the ability to manage 360 degrees effectively. The individual will be self-motivated, collaborate with division finance and business leadership as well as corporate finance and seek continued improvement driving the business to attain results.

Responsibilities:

• Build and sustain excellent relationships throughout the organization and be able to influence decisions.
• Lead the finance organization by motivating and inspiring confidence in others. Recruit, coach and develop others to build a great team.
• Lead meetings with senior leadership to review monthly and/or quarterly results (including balance sheet and cash flow) or other business matters. Address any questions or further analyses.
• Work closely with Finance and Operations personnel globally to understand business issues and their impact on the monthly, quarterly and annual Group results.
• Drive the annual strategic planning and budget process.
• Summarize monthly forecasts; assessing the forecasted results vs the previous forecast, prior year and annual plan.
• Review daily sales for the month versus forecast and delve into any customer or supply chain issues. Address issues to ensure that the Division achieves targets. Communicate any significant issues to Corporate Finance when known.
• Prepare monthly variance analyses comparing actual results vs forecasts. Explain variances and drill down to obtain explanations. Assure transparency in reviewing the results.
• Work closely and collaborate with CFO and Corporate Controller on finance and technical accounting matters, ensuring alignment with the corporate strategy
• Visit operations around North America and obtain an understanding of each operation and the key pressure points.
• Drive measures and accountability to improve Free Cash Flow and working capital metrics
• Lead division capital allocation priorities.
• Sit on Steering Committees for ERP implementations.
• Prepare and maintain regular financial planning reports, including monthly profit and loss forecast by department (vs. budget); sales forecasts; expense budgets; cost standards; savings opportunities; and capital investment. Provide analysis of financial results and develop recommendations (strategic and tactical).

Qualifications:

• BA Degree in Finance or related field required; MBA and/or CPA desired.
• 15+ years of experience working as a senior financial leader.
• Experience working in a senior financial management role, partnering with executive staff resulting in the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies.
• Experience working with information technology staff managing finance and accounting systems.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.
• Excellent analytical and abstract reasoning skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills with internal and external customers.