Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Flinn Scientific Inc., headquartered in Batavia, Illinois, is a trusted leader in the educational market, providing high-quality scientific equipment and curriculum content to K–12 and higher education institutions across the U.S. and Canada. With a strong legacy of exceptional customer service and innovation in STEM education, Flinn offers everything from research-based learning systems and standards-aligned courseware to laboratory equipment, chemicals, and hands-on science kits.

Flinn is seeking a strategic, business-minded Director of FP&A to join our Finance and Accounting team. This role reports directly to the CFO and plays a critical role in driving enterprise value, aligning operational performance with financial goals, and supporting the executive team in executing Flinn’s growth strategy.

You will lead the FP&A function with a balance of strategic insight and operational rigor—owning financial forecasting, budgeting, performance analysis, and board-level reporting. As a key partner to senior leadership and PE stakeholders, you'll help shape the company’s value creation plan while ensuring that financial strategies remain grounded in Flinn’s long-standing mission to enable science educators and inspire young minds.

This role also oversees a dedicated analyst focused on global supply chain and operations metrics, helping connect financial drivers to business decisions across functions. We are looking for a candidate who thrives in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment and is eager to make a measurable impact—both on the bottom line and in the classroom.

Essential Duties and responsibilities:

Prepare a monthly reporting package that includes full financial statements, comprehensive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, operational Dashboard reporting, analysis of key business trends, actual versus budget variances and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences.

• Partner closely with key stakeholders across the organization and drive the FP&A function as a proven center of excellence to support financial discipline and data-based decision making
• Establish effective partnerships with business unit leaders and finance peers
• Lead the annual operating budget process, track and report on performance relative to plan, and manage ongoing rolling forecast updates
• Build and iterate complex financial models covering all aspects of Flinn Scientific's operations to enable effective decision-making regarding growth strategy, cost structure, and capital expenditures
• Own all aspects of management reporting; maintain and enhance internal financial reporting processes, serving as a thought leader to upgrade reporting standards
• Establish, track, and monitor key operating metrics used to drive the organization to greater efficiency
• Create ad-hoc analyses to drive organizational strategy, improve efficiency, and maximize impact
• Help drive finance discipline, fact-based decision-making, and financial visibility
• Streamline and improve financial systems in processes in service of efficiency and cross-functional collaboration.
• Assist the CFO on the organization's financial and administrative processes with an eye to continuously developing and improving processes and systems
• Prepare monthly and annual financial reporting materials and metrics for Flinn Scientific’s senior leadership team.
• Partner with the CFO, Finance and senior leadership to build out and integrate the FP&A function within the organization
• Work closely with program leaders and their staff to educate them regarding financial planning and analysis and explore how the FP&A function can support program operations

What You Bring to the Team

• Ability to interpret large amounts of data and to multi-task
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent knowledge of desktop software including Excel
• Experience in Microsoft Power BI to create and maintain reporting and develop ad-hoc queries
• Working knowledge of data warehousing, modelling and data mining
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills