Director Financial Planning and Analysis

JTEKT North America-posted 9 days ago
Full-time • Director
Hybrid • Greenville, SC
1,001-5,000 employees
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As the Director of FP&A, you will report to the CFO and be responsible for developing and leading the financial planning and analysis function. As the head of FP&A, you will transform financial planning and decision making into a source of advantage for the enterprise by enabling the business to better anticipate opportunities, spot risks and drive faster resource reallocation. To accomplish this, you will accelerate FP&A’s adoption of AI-driven predictive planning, scale up technology-driven delivery of decision support and improve the team’s storytelling. In addition to leading the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting process, you will be the go-to resource for strategic decision support to senior organizational decision makers including the CFO and Executive Leadership Team. You will foster innovation and digital skills development in FP&A. The ideal candidate will possess financial planning and analysis expertise, the ability to develop and manage technology- and business-savvy decision support teams, and a track record of driving digital innovation in key FP&A activities. Role is initially onsite during training with transition to hybrid - 3 days a week in office.

  • Lead an effective financial planning, budgeting and forecasting cycle:
  • Lead an FP&A team that manages the execution -- and continuous improvement -- of long-range financial planning, annual budgeting, and forecasting processes.
  • Use planning, budgeting and forecasting to anticipate in-year decisions, mitigate risks, model and assess a range of scenarios, and reprioritize initiatives.
  • Establish an integrated planning process that synchronizes strategic, financial and operational plans to achieve alignment with business strategy.
  • Support accounting to create credible pro-forma financial statements
  • Organize FP&A to provide world-class decision support at scale:
  • Create high-performing teams that produce insightful strategic decision support for the CFO and C-Suite on major issues including:
  • Profitability and cash flow improvement,
  • Strategic planning, investment evaluation, and prioritization
  • Design & implementation of management reporting aligned to the operating model.
  • Broaden FP&A's scale of support for operational decisions by leading efforts to embed FP&A's acumen into well-designed decision support tools
  • Catalyze organizational-wide relationships to identify analytics partnership opportunities, promote a holistic view of business performance, and improve planning assumptions and data quality.
  • Lead a proactive and predictive analytics capability:
  • Champion the use of predictive analytics, including AI/ML, in forecasting, profitability improvement, cost analytics, and scenario planning.
  • Continuously optimize the organizational model for Data and Analytics to drive efficiency and standardization.
  • Steward and maintain trust in analytics by instituting governance mechanisms for the insights in routine or ad hoc business support, management reports, algorithms used for analysis, and automation for analytic inputs.
  • Coach the FP&A team to go beyond identifying variances to isolate core issue drivers and recommend value-creating or corrective actions that improve performance improvement.
  • Help prioritize FP&A’s queue of ad hoc support requests to ensure the appropriate balance between ad hoc and proactive analysis.
  • Oversee the evolution of FP&A’s technology portfolio:
  • Lead the evolution of, and effectively manage, the FP&A technology roadmap and ensure alignment with both the finance and enterprise roadmaps.
  • Manage relationships and negotiate with technology providers while ensuring compliance with procurement policies.
  • Manage, co-lead and resource decision support tool creation and the portfolio of FP&A’s digital products from decision dashboards and simulators to scenario modeling tools.
  • Improve performance-monitoring capabilities for faster sensing and responding:
  • Demonstrate expert-level knowledge of the organization's business drivers to establish a capability for reporting and monitoring business performance and KPIs.
  • Keep the organization aligned on enterprise performance goals.
  • Identify emerging risks and opportunities.
  • Monitor leading indicators to identify initiative delivery and operational performance gaps, drive action or alternative approaches to close.
  • Support the CFO in effective business performance reviews with the business on a routine basis.
  • Display inspirational and visionary FP&A team leadership:
  • Turn FP&A into a top choice for high-performing digital talent by encouraging innovation, skills development, and mentoring.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, openness to change, and technology acceptance by developing D&A talent and maturing the capability of the organization.
  • Support FP&A analysts and finance business partners in the transition to a primarily technology-centric decision support delivery model while simultaneously improving the skills necessary to improve in-person decision support.
  • Financial planning and analysis expertise:
  • Expert knowledge of financial planning; budgeting; and forecasting processes, including the ability to drive continuous improvement in these areas.
  • Deep understanding of the P&L and balance sheet, KPI driver maps and reporting methodologies
  • Strategic thinking and business acumen: Deep understanding of revenue drivers, sales optimization, margin management, and metrics cascades to provide insightful, performance inflecting decision support to senior executives and business leaders
  • Collaboration and relationship building:
  • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to build relationships with senior stakeholders across the organization
  • Ability to catalyze collaboration and to provide insightful recommendations to achieve common goals
  • Leadership and team management:
  • Inspirational leadership skills to foster a culture of innovation in FP&A, openness to change legacy ways-of-working, and technology acceptance within the FP&A team
  • Ability to mentor and develop team members and drive skills development
  • Executive-level communication and presentation skills: executive-level storytelling, communication and presentation skills to effectively convey financial insights, analysis, algorithms and recommendations to senior executives and other stakeholders
  • Advanced technology literacy and digital translation:
  • Ability to exploit advanced digital technologies to drive better outcomes for finance and the business
  • Ability to explain how digital technologies interact with finance systems and business processes
  • Education and qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree required; Finance, Economics, or Business
  • 10-15 years of experience within the finance or FP&A function with experience leading and managing teams
  • Experience:
  • Track record of delivering insightful strategic decision support to the CFO and C-suite. Experience in long-term strategic planning, profitability improvement, capital efficiency, investment evaluation, financial feasibility studies, and capital planning; preferably with global exposure
  • Experience implementing a robust and dynamic forecasting model that incorporates scenario planning capabilities, predictive analytics, and data-driven insights to enhance decision support
  • Proven ability to drive process improvements, automation, and operational efficiencies within FP&A
  • Significant experience partnering, presenting to, and communicating with senior management
  • Exposure to financial systems and tools, such as ERP systems, BI tools, and advanced financial planning systems and software that leverages AI/ML capabilities
  • Has managed teams using advanced technology to generate actionable insights from operational and external market data, provides early anomaly detection, and does ML-driven predictive forecasting using multiple variables
  • History of success managing relationships with technology providers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance with procurement regulations
  • Have led complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions
  • Experience in establishing performance monitoring capabilities, including the ability to align the organization on performance goals, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and conduct effective business performance reviews
  • Have led efforts to integrate FP&A's data and analytics activities with other internal analytics groups
  • Experience interpreting data science and analytics outputs
  • Experience with process improvement and digital project management frameworks (e.g., lean, agile) preferred
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