Director, FP&A - Finance

LabConnect • Johnson City, TN

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About The Position

Lead the company’s enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and analysis activities. Partner with senior leaders to translate financial and operational results into actionable insights, identify risks and opportunities, improve business performance, and support decisions that advance the company’s strategic and financial objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in finance, accounting, or a business-related discipline required
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive FP&A experience is required, including financial reporting and consolidation experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing a team is required.
• Ability to build strong business partnerships and collaborate across multiple business units and stakeholders.
• Strong sense of urgency to meet deadlines with ability to lead multiple projects and initiatives concurrently.
• Superior knowledge of financial analysis and building financial models.
• Experience using management reporting, enterprise performance management, or FP&A systems to support planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis is required.
• High level of proficiency of MS Office Suite, including PowerPoint and intermediate to advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results.
• Ability to perform calculations and manage budgets.
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts to budget management for clinical trials.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or clinical research protocols.
• Ability to draft reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from colleagues and clients.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including word processing, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint, as well as an aptitude for learning new database software quickly.

Nice To Haves

• master’s degree in accounting or CPA preferred
• Global experience is strongly preferred.
• experience with Datarails is preferred.
• Salesforce and SharePoint preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong executive presence
• Collaborative, customer-focused and able to create visible value.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Salesforce and SharePoint experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting: Develop, implement, and continuously improve company-wide operating expense and capital expenditure planning and forecasting processes.
• Perform monthly variance analysis against forecasts and budgets, partnering with stakeholders to explain results, identify trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare and maintain periodic financial forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans.
• Identify, quantify, and track cost optimization and productivity opportunities across the organization.
• Guide business and financial performance: Perform ad hoc financial and scenario analysis, including what-if modeling, sensitivity analysis, investment evaluation, and assessment of business risks and opportunities.
• Month end review, including developing insights into financial trends.
• Develop recurring management and executive-level reporting and presentations that communicate financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to business leaders by participating in operating reviews, building stakeholder relationships, challenging assumptions, and supporting financial decision-making.
• Value capture and measurement: Support processes related to tracking and reporting value realization around strategic initiatives.
• Develop metrics and analytical framework to build a disciplined approach to measuring performance and reporting to technology and business leadership.
• Leadership: Manage and develop FP&A team members, including interviewing and hiring, performance management, development, and coaching.
• Support change and ongoing transformation.

What This Job Offers

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