Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
About The Position
The Director of FP&A is responsible for leading financial planning and analysis activities across a $6–10B global enterprise, including manufacturing, retail, and transportation/distribution operations. This role provides strategic financial leadership, operational insight, and performance analytics to support business growth, profitability, and operational efficiency. As a key business partner to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, the Director drives enterprise-wide financial decision-making, operational performance improvement, and long-range strategic planning within a highly matrixed global environment. The role also leads finance transformation initiatives focused on process optimization, automation, scalable reporting, and the advancement of AI-enabled analytics and decision support capabilities to improve speed, accuracy, and business insight. The Director collaborates extensively with domestic and international teams, including offshore finance support operations in Vietnam and India, to enhance financial visibility, standardize processes, and build a high-performing, globally connected finance organization.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 7-10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience
- Minimum 5 years managing large, complex finance organizations
- Experience in manufacturing or retail business
- Experienced working globally with distributed teams and with global capabilities centers
- Strong systems knowledge including ERP and financial planning tools
- Strategic thinking and business acumen
- Strong leadership and team development skills
- Excellence in stakeholder management
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Outstanding communication skills
- Change management expertise
- Process improvement orientation
Nice To Haves
- CPA certification a plus
Responsibilities
- Bring rigor and cohesiveness for financial strategy and operations across retail, manufacturing cost accounting, and transportation/distribution segments
- Provide insights and analysis from detailed data, and work collaboratively with cross-functional leadership teams, as well as global finance colleagues to leverage these insights and analysis to drive towards better financial and efficiency outcomes
- Lead the financial components of the long-range strategy in partnership with the Transformation Management Office, TMO, and functional leaders. Ensure financial considerations are fully integrated in the long-term strategy with modeling, tracking, accountability and performance metrics
- Drive continuous improvement in operational finance processes and systems
- Unifying the disparate transformation efforts around the globe
- Identifying best practices and opportunities for improvement and efficiency
- Driving enhanced data visualization throughout reports, presentations and business partnering materials
- Benchmark against external benchmarks identifying opportunities to strengthen finance support
- Making finance faster, smarter, and more scalable
- Improving planning and forecasting processes
- Automating reporting and reducing manual work
- Enhancing data quality and accessibility
- Building self-service analytics capabilities
- Supporting major strategic initiatives (new markets, channels)
- Project and investment analysis (ROI, NPV, IRR)
- Business case development
- M&A support (modeling, synergy tracking, integration support)
- Capital allocation recommendations
- Support operational budgeting and forecasting processes across all three business units
- Provide strategic analysis for major operational decisions and investments
- Monthly/quarterly close analysis (variance vs. plan, prior year)
- Executive reporting packages (board, CEO, CFO)
- KPI definition and tracking (financial + operational)
- Standardized dashboards and scorecards
- Identifying trends, risks, and opportunities
- Develop and implement standardized operational metrics and KPIs across all business segments
- Ensure effective utilization of offshore teams for operational finance support
- Partner with business unit finance teams translating metrics into financial impact
- Standardize processes and controls across global locations for the three main business units
- Drive accountability and cohesiveness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
