Senior Director, Global Finance and Strategic Planning

Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of 6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our family of over 25 personal care brands serves people in more than 50 countries. We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value of People First guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

Role Summary: 
Overview: The Sr. Director of Global Finance and Strategic Planning will develop and lead a team to provide financial and business support, enabling data-driven decision-making to enhance company performance. This role will focus on three key areas:
1.    Stewardship of the Global FP&A and Strategic Planning Process
2.    Commercial Business Process Support, including initiative tracking, ROI assessments, and Business Development efforts
3.    Business Support for global overhead functions
This role will play a key part in supporting the company’s core business processes, including long-term strategic and operational planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly business reviews. It will provide leadership with timely, actionable insights to drive decision-making and performance. The role will partner with finance leads across North America, Operations, and global markets to identify key business drivers, develop performance scorecards, and create analytical tools to measure results and drive corrective actions as needed. Additionally, this role will serve as a strategic business partner to commercial and operational functions, overseeing the strategic planning process and ensuring the successful execution of key business initiatives. This position requires close collaboration with the CFO, COO, and other senior leaders to identify and capitalize on critical opportunities for strategy execution.

The ideal candidate will possess strong business and financial acumen, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple geographies in a complex and fast-paced environment. They will be expected to demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and influence skills, partnering with business leaders while also challenging them when necessary. This individual will balance their functional reporting relationship with finance by ensuring consistent support and active engagement, driving alignment and delivering impactful results across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:
Leadership and Process Stewardship

• Partner with the CFO to drive core financial and business processes, including long-term (strategic) and annual operational planning, quarterly forecasts, and business reviews.
• Develop and implement a framework for tracking business initiatives and performance metrics across markets, ensuring robust analysis and accountability.
• Lead the integration of ROI assessments and post-mortem evaluations, optimizing commercial investments. Collaborate with local FP&A teams to incorporate into business review cadences.
• Evolve the business planning and reporting platform, ensuring timely, accurate, and automated reporting across the finance function.
• Business Performance Reporting & Evaluation
• Provide detailed analysis of business performance, including financial and operational metrics, to support decision-making.
• Ensure consistency in financial reporting and partner with business leaders to ensure understanding and action on results. 
• Perform in-depth analysis of actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior year, summarizing key findings and guiding future actions.

Analysis of actual results against Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year ensure consistency of all Reporting Requirements from functions and operating units 

• Review materials from Business units and synthesize the key messages
• Summarize key findings (i) as basis for action plans to improve results, (ii) as input into next Forecast or Outlook
• Strategic Planning & Execution- Support CFO/COO to help lead strategy effort and  Long Term Strategic Plan Process with integrated initiative tracking; aligning with key finance partners to develp business models and metric identification/scorecarding  
•  Lead the long-term strategic planning process, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market trends.
• Track progress of strategic initiatives, providing updates and adjusting strategies as needed in collaboration with the COO and other key stakeholders.
•  Partner with business to assess the effectiveness of strategies and to track corrective action plans where necessary.

 M&A and Business Development Support

• Provide analytical support (to CFO) for M&A and business develo