Director FP&A, Solutions & Service

Forgent•Dayton, MN

10d

About The Position

The Director, FP&A is a finance leader responsible for the company’s financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and performance management across a complex, multi-plant manufacturing organization. The role partners with the CFO, business unit and plant leaders, Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, and Corporate Finance to provide timely, accurate, and actionable financial insight that supports decisions and improves financial performance. The Director leads financial plans and forecasts and establishes a consistent approach to performance management across the manufacturing footprint. The position focuses on connecting operational drivers to financial results, improving forecast accuracy, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing leadership visibility into profitability, cost, cash flow, and operating performance. It also leads and develops FP&A professionals and promotes accountability, continuous improvement, and fact-based decision-making.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
8–12+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant FP&A experience.
Experience supporting multiple plants, business units, or geographic locations.
Strong understanding of manufacturing financial drivers and cost accounting.
Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance management.
Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow drivers.
Experience presenting financial results and recommendations to senior leadership.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
Experience with ERP, FP&A, BI, and reporting systems.
Strategic thinking, strong financial discipline, and the ability to connect operational activity to financial results.
Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and communicate complex financial information clearly.
Ability to build credibility with plant and operational leaders and work in a decentralized, multi-site environment.
Strong executive presence and influencing skills; ability to translate analysis into clear actions and decisions.
Practical business judgment, ownership, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, or another advanced qualification.
Manufacturing environment experience.
Multi-site or multi-business-unit manufacturing experience.
Experience with standard costing and manufacturing variance analysis.
Experience with operational KPIs and plant performance metrics.
Experience with acquisitions, integrations, or restructuring.
Experience with capital planning and investment analysis.
Experience implementing or improving FP&A systems.
Experience with Power BI or comparable business intelligence tools.
Experience in a public-company environment.

Responsibilities

Lead annual operating plan, budget, and long-range planning processes.
Develop and maintain rolling forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, working capital, and cash flow.
Establish consistent planning processes, assumptions, timelines, and standards across plants and business units.
Partner with plant and business leaders to develop driver-based financial plans; analyze changing business conditions and update forecasts.
Develop scenario analyses to evaluate opportunities, risks, and potential actions, and improve forecast accuracy through modeling, analytics, and accountability.
Establish a consistent FP&A framework for evaluating plant financial performance and partner with Plant Managers and Plant Controllers to understand operating and financial drivers.
Analyze plant profitability, productivity, labor, materials, overhead, operating expenses, production volumes, capacity utilization, labor efficiency, scrap, yield, and material usage.
Identify and communicate plant performance drivers and gaps, develop corrective actions with operational leaders, and support cost-reduction and productivity initiatives.
Lead monthly financial performance reporting for executive and business leadership; explain results versus budget, forecast, and prior year.
Establish standard KPIs and performance dashboards across plants and business units, translate results into actionable insights, and improve reporting quality, timeliness, and consistency.
Analyze revenue, pricing, volume, mix, gross margin, and profitability trends; develop product, customer, plant, and business-unit profitability analyses.
Partner with Commercial leadership on pricing decisions, customer profitability, and margin opportunities; analyze manufacturing cost drivers and identify margin improvements.
Support strategic decisions through financial modeling and scenario analysis, including capital investments, restructuring, make-versus-buy decisions, and other significant opportunities.
Partner with Treasury, Operations, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to improve working capital; analyze inventory, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash conversion.
Develop working-capital and cash-flow forecasts and reporting, identify opportunities to improve inventory turns and reduce excess and obsolete inventory, and incorporate working-capital considerations into plans and decisions.
Serve as a strategic finance partner to the CFO and business leadership, providing analysis for major strategic and operational decisions.
Build financial models for acquisitions, capital investments, capacity expansion, restructuring, and other strategic initiatives; evaluate business cases and investment proposals.
Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations and actions.
Continuously improve FP&A processes, tools, models, and reporting; identify opportunities to automate planning and reporting activities.
Improve integration between ERP, financial planning, reporting, and analytics systems; establish consistent modeling and reporting methodologies; partner with Finance Systems & Analytics leadership on data quality and reporting capabilities.
Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets where appropriate while maintaining analytical flexibility.
Lead and develop FP&A professionals, establish objectives and performance expectations, and create development plans.
Build financial and analytical capabilities within FP&A, promote accountability and continuous improvement, and establish consistent practices across plants and business units.