DIS-TRAN Steel Transfer Portal- Director of Strategic Planning and Cash Flow

Crest Industries • Pineville, LA

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About The Position

DIS-TRAN Steel and DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations are seeking a Director of Strategic Planning and Cash Flow to lead enterprise cash flow forecasting, financial modeling, working capital planning, and growth analysis. This role works closely with executive leadership, connecting operational and financial data to provide the insight needed to support growth, improve decision-making, and identify future constraints before they impact the business. The ideal candidate is energized by solving complex business problems, building analytical models, and influencing strategic decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in strategic planning, FP&A, cash flow forecasting, working capital management, operational finance, or related finance leadership roles.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, project-based, engineered product, EPC, or similarly complex business environments.
• Strong understanding of cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, working capital management, project cash cycles, WIP, CIE, and revenue recognition.
• Demonstrated experience building financial models that connect operational drivers to business performance.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and business partnership skills.
• Ability to work effectively across operations, engineering, production, procurement, project management, finance, and executive leadership teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, financial modeling, forecasting tools, and reporting systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, construction, power, EPC, or project-based environments.
• Experience developing integrated operational planning models.
• Experience supporting financing discussions, liquidity planning, capital allocation, and enterprise growth initiatives.
• Experience working within production planning, constraint-based systems, or operational execution environments.
• MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or other related professional certifications preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve enterprise cash flow forecasting models across DIS-TRAN Steel and DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations.
• Develop and manage 13-week rolling cash forecasts, quarterly outlooks, and long-range planning models.
• Create integrated financial models that connect backlog, throughput, production schedules, billing, collections, inventory, working capital, and liquidity.
• Identify cash flow, working capital, and liquidity constraints before they impact operations.
• Translate operational plans into cash flow impact, including the timing of cash consumption, billing opportunities, collection activity, and vendor payment obligations.
• Provide visibility into liquidity timing, cash requirements, and financial risks associated with growth, production loading, project schedules, and capacity expansion.
• Develop scenario-based forecasts that help leadership understand the financial impact of changes in revenue, margin, working capital, production throughput, billing timing, and collection patterns.
• Partner directly with operations, production, engineering, procurement, project management, finance, and executive leadership to connect operational activity to financial outcomes.
• Translate operational drivers into cash impact, including throughput, backlog, production scheduling, inventory scaling, labor growth, vendor payments, WIP, CIE, AR growth, and capital expenditures.
• Monitor and forecast the cash flow impact of operational decisions, project execution timing, production capacity, supply chain needs, and customer payment cycles.
• Support alignment between operating plans and financial capacity across both DIS-TRAN operating companies.
• Improve visibility into how production schedules, project milestones, resource constraints, procurement timing, and customer billing activity affect liquidity.
• Work with supply chain management and product family management to develop ideal financial terms to support operational plans.
• Establish planning rhythms and reporting tools that connect operational execution with financial planning and cash management.
• Work cross-functionally to identify operational bottlenecks, financial risks, and timing constraints that affect the organization’s ability to scale.
• Support enterprise strategic planning across DIS-TRAN Steel and DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations.
• Model growth and constraint elevation scenarios, including revenue scaling, capacity increases, production loading, margin changes, collection timing shifts, capital investments, and working capital requirements.
• Help leadership evaluate whether the business can support growth operationally and financially.
• Evaluate the financial implications of increasing throughput, expanding capacity, adding labor, accelerating production, changing project mix, or pursuing new growth opportunities.
• Identify points at which growth creates constraints in cash flow, working capital, leadership capacity, systems, production, or execution. Work with executive leadership and corporate finance to develop mitigation strategies.
• Provide analytical support for enterprise planning, capital allocation, financing discussions, operational investment decisions, and growth initiatives.
• Develop tools and insights that allow leadership to compare strategic options and make informed decisions about scale, timing, investment, and risk.
• Serve as a strategic financial partner to the President of DIS-TRAN Companies and the executive leadership team.
• Deliver actionable insights, dashboards, forecasts, and risk assessments to support executive decision-making.
• Improve leadership visibility across both operating companies by connecting financial data, operational data, project performance, backlog, and capacity planning.
• Support liquidity planning, cash management, financing discussions, and enterprise growth reviews.
• Communicate complex financial and operational information clearly and concisely to leaders across finance, operations, production, project management, procurement, and engineering.
• Challenge assumptions, pressure-test plans, and provide objective analysis to support scalable growth.
• Create a shared understanding of financial constraints, operational constraints, and leadership constraints across the organization.
• Build and improve planning models, reporting tools, dashboards, and processes that support cash flow visibility and enterprise decision-making.
• Develop consistent methods for tracking and reporting working capital, AR growth, WIP, CIE, inventory, vendor payments, labor growth, CapEx, backlog, throughput, and liquidity.
• Improve the reliability, timeliness, and usefulness of financial and operational planning data.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to strengthen data inputs, planning assumptions, reporting processes, and forecast accuracy.
• Identify process gaps and recommend improvements that strengthen cash flow planning, growth planning, and operational-financial alignment.
• Support enterprise planning capabilities that connect operations, leadership, and finance.
• Monitor changes in laws and regulations that may affect the organization's compliance obligations.
• Develop and implement compliance policies and procedures.
• Conduct regular compliance audits and assessments.
• Provide Strategic Finance training to employees.
• Promote a culture of compliance and risk awareness within the organization.
• Investigate and address compliance violations or breaches.
• Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities across the organization.
• Assess the impact of risks on the organization.
• Coordinate with relevant departments to minimize identified risks.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies and action plans.
• Maintain comprehensive records of compliance activities and risk assessments.
• Prepare and submit reports to senior management and regulatory authorities as required.
• Contribute to the development of the organization's strategic plans by providing risk assessment and compliance insights.

Benefits

• Growth is intentional
• Influence enterprise strategy
• Work directly with executive leadership
• Shape the future of two growing operating companies
• Analysis, insights, and recommendations will directly impact how the organization allocates resources, manages growth, elevates constraints, and achieves long-term objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed