Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

MultiTech • Mounds View, MN

6d • Onsite

About The Position

MultiTech’s Director of FP&A will lead financial planning and performance management across our high growth business. This role will be a critical finance partner to the executive team and functional leaders, with ownership over budgeting, forecasting, product-level margin analysis, capital investment planning, ERP optimization and M&A activity. With a strong understanding of the operational and financial dynamics of a product-based, manufacturing-driven organization, this role will drive insights that support profitable growth and operational efficiency, helping to scale our finance capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance, including experience with Private Equity.
• Strong experience in manufacturing or supply chain-intensive industries.
• Proven influential leadership skills and ability to implement, lead and develop an FP&A discipline with an organization.
• Advanced financial modeling skills in Excel; experience with ERP systems and data warehouses and related reporting tools).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable working with executive leadership.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect financial insights to operational levers.
• Attention to detail while managing competing priorities and tight timelines.
• Thrives working in a growth-oriented, fast-paced environment with a bias toward quick decisions and action.
• Deep understanding of product costing, manufacturing P&Ls, and working capital drivers.
• Experience with SKU-level, factory and product line margin analysis.
• Strong sense of ownership, initiative, and attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred
• Prior experience in a technology design and manufacturing organization a plus (to include 3rd-party contract manufacturing).

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual operating plan (AOP), rolling forecasts, and long-range strategic planning.
• Oversee and execute financial planning, close and consolidation processes by focusing on financial models - regularly analyzing data and provide risk and opportunity assessments.
• Develop robust financial models to support decision-making across product lines, channels, and manufacturing.
• Support monthly and quarterly financial reviews, including variance analysis by product, channel, and factory.
• Lead the Finance partnership with Operations and Supply Chain, driving financial performance through ownership of standard costing, COGS analysis, yield improvement initiatives, inventory optimization, and capital project evaluation.
• Champion ERP system optimization to automate budgeting, map data architecture for effective and accurate reporting, and ensure the ERP's underlying structure generates actionable, leadership- and board-ready insights. May include a key role in ERP implementation.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Product, and Operations on new product launches, investment analysis, and lifecycle profitability
• Partner with executives to direct M&A activities: evaluate target companies and synergy goals, analyze financial synergies, build scenario models, direct due diligence cross-functionally, and oversee post-deal financial integration (including tracking KPIs and the successful consolidation of financial systems and models, ensuring operational continuity and delivery against strategic targets.
• Lead in the evaluation and execution of strategic business opportunities and investments
• Build and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools for executive and functional leadership
• Lead the development and weekly management of a 13-week cash flow forecast, partnering cross-functionally to ensure accuracy in inflows/outflows, identify liquidity risks, and support proactive working capital decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director