Director Financial Planning & Analysis - North America

Genuine Parts Company•Birmingham, AL

About The Position

The Director Financial Planning & Analysis - North America partners with and supports Group Vice Presidents by providing proactive, value-adding insight into Group financial performance. The role provides financial leadership and resources to help achieve Motion Industries and individual Group goals. It identifies opportunities and supports decision-making by collecting, managing, analyzing, and sharing financial information. The Director drives positive change to improve market share, margins, productivity, efficiency, costs, and asset management. The position leads and develops the North America Financial Planning & Analysis team, builds partnerships with operational leaders, and oversees financial analysis, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. It also supports strategic initiatives, acquisition integration, and the development and improvement of accounting processes and solutions. The role has budget responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
Seven or more years of managerial finance and/or financial reporting experience.
Five or more years of experience leading people.
Experience managing multiple ERP systems consolidated into one financial reporting platform.
Experience managing multiple projects.
Professional executive presence and excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to interact with management at corporate and field levels.
Strong negotiation and partnership skills across management levels, with the ability to influence and challenge decisions and processes.
Forward-thinking approach to implementing tools and techniques that improve analytics and business decisions.
Self-motivated and able to independently manage multiple responsibilities concurrently.
Strong analytical skills and ability to propose positive business solutions to problems.
Strong leadership skills, including driving results, developing and coaching people, and influencing peers.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to collaborate within a team and manage team dynamics and relationships.
Ability to manage data between multiple systems.
Experience with PeopleSoft General Ledger or a similar ERP and Blackline.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.

Responsibilities

Mentors, coaches, and evaluates the North America Financial Planning & Analysis team; sets goals and priorities and develops team members.
Establishes and monitors employee performance objectives and introduces best practices and process improvements.
Builds strong partnerships with operational leaders to support strategy and business decision-making.
Leads the development of metric-driven financial analysis.
Oversees timely communication of actionable insights and explanations of variances against plans and forecasts across financial metrics and key performance indicators.
Leads preparation of Group-level monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial statements.
Seeks opportunities to increase business knowledge and organizational visibility.
Leads strategic initiatives focused on operational efficiency and improvements.
Benchmarks against industry peers and provides insights on improvement opportunities.
Oversees review of account reconciliations, analyses, and related journal entries; approves significant non-standard journal entries posted to Group financials.
Reviews quarterly adjustments and other significant estimates.
Supports Finance Leadership in designing, maintaining, and presenting budgeting and forecasting processes; collaborates with leadership on financial support, project analysis, and modeling.
Partners with Finance leaders to develop or improve accounting processes and documentation and recommend changes that support world-class processes.
Partners with internal and external business partners, including Treasury, Financial Shared Services, and IT, to develop, optimize, and maintain processes and solutions.
Supports the Acquisition Integration team with analysis and onboarding of distribution acquisitions.
Performs other duties as assigned.