Enterprise FP&A Leader

Owens Corning•Toledo, OH

32d•Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Leader provides support in all aspects of financial planning and analysis within the Corporate Strategy and Financial Planning department. This leadership position is responsible for developing, interpreting, and implementing financial concepts for financial planning across the enterprise. This position performs technical analysis to determine and evaluate present and future financial performance and is responsible for the gathering, analysis, and preparation of recommendations for financial plans, trended future requirements and operating forecasts. In addition, they will perform economic research and studies in the areas of capital expenditure efficiency, working capital requirements, free cash flow conversion and investment opportunities. The successful candidate will continually drive an external shareholder perspective into the critical decision-making process and utilize comparative industry data to benchmark internal performance. This role provides consistent visibility and interaction with senior leadership, including the Investment Governance Committee, business team leadership, Executive Committee, and others by shaping analyses and narratives used for enterprise-level decision-making. It serves as a central coordination point across Corporate Finance, business segment FP&A teams, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, and External Reporting, ensuring consistent enterprise alignment. Working across the organization with the business FP&A teams and other Finance Leaders, External Reporting, Treasury, Tax, and Investor Relations, the FP&A Leader ensures effective execution of policies and procedures in financial planning and analysis. The FP&A Leader also provides functional support for all aspects of finance, including providing timely financial information, analysis and reporting for use by the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and others.. The FP&A Leader is recognized as a leader that demonstrates corporate values, teamwork and commitment to high performance and talent development and the success of Owens Corning’s Finance organization. This is a highly visible, enterprise-critical role that directly supports Owens Corning’s financial strategy and value-creation agenda.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required
Minimum 7-10 years of finance and analytical experience with demonstrated leadership growth
Experience leading and developing others
Exceptional Finance Acumen
Operates effectively in a matrix environment utilizing strong teamwork and communication skills
Thinks and acts on a global scale
Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
Acute listening skills
Demonstrated Project Management capability
Excels at leading and influencing others
Able to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment
Able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously; able to deal with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details.
Results oriented with strong service orientation
Demonstrated not being comfortable with the status-quo and continually striving for excellence
Experience with being a driver of change; comfortable designing for the future, while managing day-to-day operations accounting matters
Able to anticipate risks and propose practical plans to mitigate them; appreciates the Enterprise FP&A’s impact and how the department is an integral part of the overall corporation’s finance and business strategy
Ability to work well under pressure; demonstrates attention to detail
Ability to quickly assimilate to new teams and projects
Demonstrated experience working with maintaining financial integrity for the corporation, employees, and shareholders.

Nice To Haves

MBA from an accredited university, strongly preferred
CPA and public accounting experience a plus
Experience working for a multi-national manufacturing company

Responsibilities

Leads the development of the total company income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow in support of the monthly forecast and annual operating plan processes.
Leads the development of the company’s long-term strategic financial plan though the development of macro-economic scenarios, financial modeling, business earnings targets, and presentation materials for executive review.
Drive overall cash flow and balance sheet planning and forecasting in partnership with accounting, tax, treasury, and business finance teams.
Facilitates the Investment Governance Committee agenda & meetings to deliver enterprise capital efficiency and investment objectives.
Strengthen and leverage the shareholder value creation mindset. Model this by systematically considering shareholder value implications in key analysis while identifying, prioritizing, and pulling / pushing levers that drive shareholder value; ensures they are translated into operational plans.
Inform, shape and enrich our analyses to our Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and Investors by proactively spearheading insightful analyses creating a call to action from an enterprise perspective.
Master forecasting that shapes credible internal and external guidance.
Enables effective management by leading across the organization through partnerships with key stakeholders that generate transparency, visibility, and consistency through deep cross functional partnership and strong relationship management across finance and business teams.
Ensure the basis of all financial plans and forecasts transparent, pressure-tested and that the linkage of the business drivers to the forecast is apparent.
Continuously drive improvement in planning and forecasting by thoroughly framing the strategic context to shed light on the set of potentially strategic opportunities.
Develops and sustains financial processes and systems and ensures that they are both high performing and scalable to support an Owens Corning growth agenda.
Partners with the Finance Transformation team on the implementation of a new enterprise financial planning process and tool.
Drive accountability and strong attention to details both inside and outside the Corporate Financial Planning team.
Leverages team to achieve goals.
Fosters an environment where talent, direct reports, and others in the organization, is developed through effective performance management, development plans and talent evaluation.
Effectively builds a diverse team with competent people using the appropriate mix of internal promotions and external recruitment to satisfy near-term performance, longer-term succession needs and to ensure the organization has the necessary outstanding talent.
Acts as a resource to the non-financial leaders of the business providing education and training on the key principles of Finance.
Mentors high potential finance talent within Owens Corning.
Serves as a critical talent-development role within Owens Corning Finance, providing a strong platform for future leadership opportunities across corporate and business finance.
Inspires teamwork across finance functions and regions to maximize the performance of Owens Corning and the development of people.
Is regarded by the employees of Owens Corning as a role model for their growth, development, and conduct.
Provides thought leadership, sets vision, and communicates strategy for the development of people processes and systems into a highly effective finance infrastructure and global accounting operation.