Director, Central FP&A

Expeditors•Bellevue, WA

5d•$250,000 - $400,000•Remote

About The Position

This Director will lead Expeditors’ Central FP&A team with primary responsibility for the finance calendar, monthly forecast, annual operating plan, consolidated management reporting, and Board and earnings support. Reporting to the Vice President of FP&A, this person will be a close thought partner, turning the FP&A vision into repeatable processes and a single enterprise view of performance. The role is hands-on: the Director will build a small, focused team that leverages Expeditors’ existing regional controller network as it scales. We’re looking for someone who has seen strong FP&A in action and can adapt that experience to Expeditors rather than copy a playbook. The right person is curious about our business, practical in solving problems, comfortable in an evolving environment, and ready to turn ideas into action.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Ten or more years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a closely related discipline.
Experience in a mature FP&A organization within a large public company or similarly complex enterprise.
A track record of creating or materially improving forecasting, planning, management reporting, earnings, or Board processes, with measurable results such as shorter cycle times or better decisions.
Strong process orientation and the ability to build clear, practical, repeatable management rhythms.
Strong intellectual curiosity about business operations, economic drivers, customers, markets, and competitive advantage.
Ability to learn a complex business and translate operational performance into financial insight.
Experience leading and developing finance teams, as well as significant financial processes and cross-functional initiatives.
Strong understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, business drivers, and management reporting.
Ability to build and review financial models for forecasts, scenarios, strategic initiatives, and business decisions.
Ability to distill complex information into concise, executive-ready insights and recommendations.
Demonstrated strategic thinking, sound judgment, and a bias for action.
Ability to influence decisions through facts, structured thinking, and trusted relationships.
Ability to coach and develop finance professionals with varying levels of experience.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to operate effectively where processes, information, systems, or responsibilities are still evolving.
Strong commitment to accuracy, transparency, confidentiality, and ethical decision-making.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience preparing earnings and Board materials.
Experience partnering with Controllership, Treasury, and Investor Relations in a corporate finance setting.
Experience with workforce planning, enterprise cost analysis, and strategic initiative tracking.
Familiarity with Oracle EPM, Power BI, or comparable planning, consolidation, and business intelligence tools.
MBA, CPA, CFA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification.
Global business perspective and the ability to work effectively across functions, geographies, and cultures.

Responsibilities

Lead monthly and quarterly forecasting, including timelines, assumptions, templates, consolidation, review, and communication.
Work with regional controllers, business partners and Finance leaders to gather forecast inputs and understand the operational drivers and external factors behind performance.
Facilitate constructive review and challenge of forecasts, helping leaders distinguish committed actions from known risks, potential opportunities, and longer-term aspirations.
Own enterprise tracking of significant strategic initiatives, ensuring their expected financial impact is reflected in the plan and forecast.
Evaluate forecast accuracy, identify recurring sources of variance, and improve forecasting methods over time.
Lead monthly management reporting on results, drivers, risks, opportunities, and outlook, connecting financial outcomes to the operating activities and decisions behind them.
Develop concise, executive-ready narratives on what changed, why it changed, and what actions or decisions may be required.
Lead the annual operating plan and long-range planning processes with the Vice President and own the finance calendar that connects them with the forecast.
Develop planning assumptions, templates, analytical methods, review materials, and quality standards.
Develop scenarios that show the range of potential outcomes, key dependencies and risks, and the actions required to reach a preferred result.
Translate company priorities into financial expectations, performance measures, and management actions.
Support Board and earnings preparation by coordinating accurate, well-documented analyses and executive-ready financial messaging that connects reported results, business drivers, risks, trends, and likely areas of investor or Board interest.
Build and maintain the driver-based models behind the forecast, plan, scenarios, and enterprise consolidation.
Use sensitivity, scenario, and “what you have to believe” analysis to make plan and forecast assumptions transparent and stress-test outcomes.
Support enterprise capital allocation and financial capacity analysis, integrating major investment and acquisition cases into the plan.
Establish practical modeling standards for consistency, transparency, documentation, and quality, and coach team members in model design and quality assurance.
Translate the FP&A vision into repeatable processes, deliverables, governance, and management routines.
Establish practical standards for forecasting, reporting, planning, modeling, and financial review meetings, with clear objectives, inputs, owners, timelines, and expected decisions.
Build finance and management rhythms that improve business engagement, leadership preparedness, decision quality, and accountability.
Bring proven practices from mature FP&A environments, adapting them to Expeditors’ culture, management philosophy, and operating model after learning why existing practices developed.
Balance the immediate need for useful analysis with the longer-term goal of building scalable FP&A capabilities.
Serve as the business lead for the transition to Oracle EPM Cloud, defining planning, forecasting, and reporting requirements and designing processes that take full advantage of the new platform.
Partner with the Vice President to make FP&A a trusted source of enterprise performance insight for senior leaders and the Board.
Develop a deep understanding of Expeditors’ business model, economic drivers, organization, and global network, and how operating decisions flow through to accounting results.
Build credibility through accurate analysis, sound judgment, and responsiveness, approaching the business with curiosity and humility.
Challenge plan and forecast assumptions constructively while respecting the experience of business and functional leaders.
Work closely with Accounting, regional controllers, Treasury, Human Resources, Credit, and Investor Relations so FP&A extends existing Finance capabilities rather than duplicating them.
Develop enterprise KPI frameworks with the Vice President, and work hand in hand with finance business partners so business context flows into the consolidated view.
Serve as a thought partner and right hand to the Vice President.
Shape financial analysis, executive messaging, and materials for important leadership discussions.
Coordinate FP&A priorities, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations.
Model the analytical rigor, business curiosity, judgment, and communication expected from the FP&A team.
Progressively expand executive-facing responsibilities, including presenting to senior leaders, as business knowledge, relationships, and credibility grow.
Build, lead, and develop a small, high-performing Central FP&A team.
Participate actively in recruiting, selecting, and onboarding FP&A talent, supporting the organization design and talent strategy set by the Vice President.
Set clear expectations for analytical quality, ownership, judgment, business understanding, and communication.
Build a team culture that values curiosity, disciplined analysis, constructive challenge, collaboration, and accountability.