Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) plays a critical leadership role in providing forward-thinking financial guidance and strategic partnership to senior executives across FINRA’s enterprise. This role combines financial expertise with exceptional business acumen to serve as a trusted advisor and executive-level business partner to key stakeholders, helping them understand and optimize financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and drive informed, financially sound decision-making in alignment with FINRA’s overall finance strategy.

As a senior leader on the FP&A team, this position is responsible for developing and elevating the FP&A function, creating high-impact management reporting, ensuring robust forecasts, and providing strategic recommendations that enable data-driven decisions. This leader drives proactive financial analyses across complex business units within the FINRA Enterprise and works closely with the Vice President, FP&A on high-level strategic initiatives, serving as their alternate as needed.

The Director establishes strong relationships with executive leadership to reality-test business strategy, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment of financial strategies with corporate objectives – particularly for newly consolidated groups requiring sophisticated financial partnership. This role also maintains Enterprise-wide visibility and accountability driving cross-functional strategy, consolidating insights across multiple business units, and ensuring cohesive financial planning that supports FINRA’s overall strategic objectives.

Enterprise-level Functions:

• Lead and deliver comprehensive Enterprise financial planning strategies and processes (across all business lines).
  • Develop BU-specific annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial plans across business units, owning end-to-end infrastructure, processes, and communication of operating expenses, capital initiatives and revenues.
  • Define procedures for FP&A team that align with organizational fiscal objectives and business goals.
  • Oversee creation of executive-ready analyses, dashboards, and narratives for CFAO and senior leadership review.
• Monitor and report on financial KPIs and key business drivers; identify trends and areas for improvement; and provide recommendations to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Build and evolve decision-enabling financial tools and models, leveraging data visualizations, storytelling, and emerging technology to enhance efficiency, scalability, and stakeholder financial literacy.
• Drive advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis supporting strategic initiatives, resource allocation, capital projects, and business case development including cost/benefit analysis and risk assessment.
• Partner closely across FP&A teams to ensure the department’s operating plans align with Enterprise strategic priorities and that senior leadership has timely visibility into performance.
• Establish frameworks and standards that ensure consistency, accuracy and strategic alignment across all business units.
• Develop and maintain enterprise financial models that integrate revenue, expense and capital projections across all business units, enabling comprehensive what-if analysis and strategic trade-off decisions.
• Oversee and develop FP&A team, managing operational aspects of workflow, performance, and compliance.

Aligned Business Functions:

• Partner closely with executive leadership in aligned businesses to provide financial insights, evaluate business performance, and guide data-driven decision-making to support budgets, forecasts and long-term growth
• Oversee monthly/quarterly management reporting and analysis for business segments to deliver insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year with strategic, business-driven commentary to senior leadership.
• Oversee planning process for the business units, including annual budget and rolling forecasts; and initiatives to streamline budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Coach and develop team members, and conduct effective performance management and career development conversations.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience required.

• MBA or M