Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

We have an immediate opening for a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) based in our Washington, DC office or New York reporting to the North America Finance Director and Global Head of FP&A.

By joining the APCO finance team, you will be joining colleagues from all over the world who are open, collaborative, diverse and curious.

The Director of Financial Planning and Analysis is a key member of the North America finance team with primary responsibility for region-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, with a leading role in driving business growth and improving profitability. They are expected to manage the regional annual budgeting and monthly reforecasting process across the region and support management reporting to senior business leads. This role requires establishing solid working relationships with the regional Finance Director and Managing Directors to support data-driven decision making within regional business lines. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Leads the North America Financial Planning and Analysis team that explicitly partners with business leaders to provide information, data, analysis and insights to result in data-driven, profit-increasing decisions. 
• Works directly with North America senior management to develop overall long-term strategic plans which requires in-depth knowledge of the company, competitive landscape, trends and economic and social implications of organizational activities. 
• Supports regional financial and capital budgeting/forecasting and other high value analysis. 
• Leverage and relate management reports / dashboards that allow business partners to better understand their business and make informed decisions. 
• Provides senior regional management with regular feedback and communication with respect to variations between plan and actuals, including the projected impact to future results, and communicates regularly with team throughout the reporting cycle, providing timely updates, expert analysis, and responses to inquiries. 
• Engages proactively in professional development of direct reports and regional finance team. 
• Provides relevant information required for external disclosures, board meetings, investor presentations, and management reporting such as fluctuation and trending analysis, forecast results, and long-term planning information as needed. 
• Provides substantive analytical support to regional management as part of the monthly and quarterly review cycles, including helping business leads understand trends and anomalies in the business results.
• Provides support and leadership in approved and ad-hoc global financial projects as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration is strongly preferred, with 10+ years Financial related field / MBA strongly preferred.
• 6+ years management experience within Corporate FP&A Function. Progressive managerial experience required. 
• MS Office, including Intermediate/Advanced skills in Excel.
• Significant experience with financial planning / management reporting system (Hyperion, Cognos, Adaptive, Host, etc.) 
  • Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Domo)
• Excellent planning, organization, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills. 
• Understand financial statements and metrics and translate them into operational goals.
• Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment with rapidly changing business priorities while managing region-wide processes and deadlines. 
• Ability to naturally analyze, prioritize, and synthesize all types of information to allow timely and effective business impact on a consistent basis.
• Good communication skills (both written and oral), ability to present to senior leadership.
• Proven success in leading and building teamwork across business units.

Compensation Range:

The US base salary for this position ranges from $150,000/year to $200,000/year. Our compensation range for this role is inclusive of several US geographic markets. APCO targets an employee's pay within this range to be based on several factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, internal equity and/or geographic location.

Careers at APCO

The physical abilities needed to perform the duties of this position, in addition to the office climate. The office environment is a general office setting. APCO will make reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential or primary duties for this position.