Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Creation Technologies•Boston, MA

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. This Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Costing & Process Standardization role sits at the center of Creation Technologies’ financial engine, owning standard costing accuracy while leading high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that directly shape business performance. Partnering closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Sales, and Finance, this leader will drive annual cost rolls, customer quoting, and complex financial modeling that power monthly forecasts and long-range planning. You’ll be the connective tissue between strategy and execution—translating data into insight, insight into action, and action into measurable results that support informed decision-making across the enterprise. Beyond the numbers, this role is about building momentum. You’ll lead collaborative projects that streamline processes, elevate financial rigor, and modernize how the organization plans and operates—thinking like an owner while influencing without authority. Reporting directly to the SVP of FP&A, this high-visibility individual contributor role offers regular exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on how the company scales. Based in Dallas, TX or Boston, MA, this hybrid position (2–3 days in office) is ideal for an intellectually curious, high-energy finance leader who thrives on driving change and making the business better every day. Serve as an objective financial steward, with an enterprise perspective, who enables effective decision making that creates value by identifying areas of financial underperformance to help turn them into opportunities to drive revenue growth, margin improvement and cost savings. Execute, maintain, and continuously improve annual standard costing process. Work with Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering to ensure purchase price variance, material usage variance, direct labor variances and overhead variances and absorption concepts are understood and evaluated for accuracy. Drive process improvements by identifying need for change, proactively gathering requirements, designing, developing, and implementing change Provide leadership and support to Global FP&A projects supporting overall process improvements and standardization as required. Standardize and harmonize company’s cost pools and costing processes globally where possible. Ensure structure is optimized for tax and statutory purposes where applicable. Be the financial owner for the global cost and quoting policies. Support and improve variance reporting, cost-to-quote process, and KPI’s with an operational lens including working with IT to make system updates where needed. Prepare financial reviews, including coordinating activities across functions, businesses, and groups, developing a thorough understanding of the results (P&L, Balance Sheet and Free Cash Flow) and providing insights on trends. Identify and communicate financial/operational trends that represent a significant impact to the business and possible “what if” scenarios. Develop financial forecasts and support long-range planning processes with BU partners and Regional/Enterprise teams. Provide support to BU teams in matters of cost, variance analysis, and budget including preparing analytics impacting materials and labor to influence manufacturing operational process improvements. Understand customer profiles and market dynamics impacting pricing of products. Partner with other finance disciplines to enable business performance: controllership, analytics, systems, and continuous improvement. May contribute to the development of policies and procedures. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in an FP&A or a related accounting role.
5+ years of planning, executing, and leading projects.
Experience in a global manufacturing and supply chain environment.
Standard costing environment required.
Experience working with a SaaS CPM Solution such as Adaptive Planning, Hyperion, etc.
Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Deep understanding of financial budgeting and forecasting concepts and modeling.
A continuous improvement mindset.
Strong results orientation with a track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives.
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact successfully with all levels of management.
Professional executive presence and poise; drives business results through clear communication and collaboration.
A team player who is collaborative and receptive to ideas from others and works effectively across functions to identify and resolve critical issues.
A creative, yet pragmatic, problem solver who is hands-on as and detail oriented.
High level of integrity, attend to detail and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.

Nice To Haves

CPA and/or MBA preferred.
Oracle experience a plus.

Responsibilities

Serve as an objective financial steward, with an enterprise perspective, who enables effective decision making that creates value by identifying areas of financial underperformance to help turn them into opportunities to drive revenue growth, margin improvement and cost savings.
Execute, maintain, and continuously improve annual standard costing process.
Work with Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering to ensure purchase price variance, material usage variance, direct labor variances and overhead variances and absorption concepts are understood and evaluated for accuracy.
Drive process improvements by identifying need for change, proactively gathering requirements, designing, developing, and implementing change
Provide leadership and support to Global FP&A projects supporting overall process improvements and standardization as required.
Standardize and harmonize company’s cost pools and costing processes globally where possible. Ensure structure is optimized for tax and statutory purposes where applicable.
Be the financial owner for the global cost and quoting policies.
Support and improve variance reporting, cost-to-quote process, and KPI’s with an operational lens including working with IT to make system updates where needed.
Prepare financial reviews, including coordinating activities across functions, businesses, and groups, developing a thorough understanding of the results (P&L, Balance Sheet and Free Cash Flow) and providing insights on trends.
Identify and communicate financial/operational trends that represent a significant impact to the business and possible “what if” scenarios.
Develop financial forecasts and support long-range planning processes with BU partners and Regional/Enterprise teams.
Provide support to BU teams in matters of cost, variance analysis, and budget including preparing analytics impacting materials and labor to influence manufacturing operational process improvements.
Understand customer profiles and market dynamics impacting pricing of products.
Partner with other finance disciplines to enable business performance: controllership, analytics, systems, and continuous improvement.
May contribute to the development of policies and procedures.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned