Executive Director, CPS BU Finance Partner

Fortrea•Durham, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Director, Finance CPS is a senior finance leader at Fortrea, responsible for leading financial strategy, insight generation, and governance for the CPS business unit. This role serves as the primary finance partner to CPS operational leadership, owning business unit level financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight while ensuring alignment with enterprise financial standards and priorities. This role is intentionally focused on strategic business partnership and decision support. The Executive Director brings strong executive presence and business judgment, translating complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights that influence investment decisions, operational discipline, and long-term value creation across the CPS portfolio.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required.
12+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including direct responsibility for business unit finance or divisional FP&A.
Demonstrated experience partnering with senior operational leaders and influencing strategic decisions.
Strong background in budgeting, forecasting, P&L ownership, and performance management within complex operating environments.
Proven ability to translate detailed financial data into executive level insights, storytelling with data and providing actionable recommendations.
Exceptional executive presence, judgment, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, or equivalent preferred.
Experience within CRO, life sciences, healthcare services, or similarly complex, project based global organizations.
Working knowledge of project based financial models and revenue recognition dynamics.
Experience operating in a public company environment with enterprise governance expectations.

Responsibilities

Own financial leadership for the CPS business unit, ensuring rigor, consistency, and transparency across budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
Serve as the single point of accountability for CPS financial results, in close partnership with CPS Operations leadership.
Ensure CPS financial plans and forecasts align with enterprise objectives, governance standards, and reporting expectations.
Lead CPS budgeting and forecasting processes, integrating volume, cost, capital, and margin drivers into forward looking plans.
Drive high quality financial insight generation to support CPS clinical operations, including Phase 1 clinic performance and clinical research units (CRUs) operating as investigator sites.
Identify risks, opportunities, and performance inflection points, proactively elevating insights to CPS and enterprise leadership.
Operate as an embedded finance partner to CPS leadership, providing financial perspective and challenge on operational and strategic decisions.
Translate business complexity into executive-ready financial insights that support growth, margin, and capital allocation decisions.
Support segment level FP&A analysis and P&L ownership in partnership with operational leaders.
Lead capital planning, investment prioritization, capacity expansion and cost discipline initiatives within CPS.
Ensure financial accountability for capital deployment and operating expense management while enabling growth and operational excellence.
Partner closely with peer Executive Directors across Business and Corporate Finance to ensure enterprise alignment.
Influence enterprise finance standards and priorities through strong collaboration with the SVP of Business Finance and other Finance leadership.
Develop and lead a high performing CPS finance team with strong analytical capability, executive communication, and commercial acumen.
Mentor senior finance leaders and high potential talent, reinforcing enterprise mindset and strategic partnership behaviors.