Director of Finance Business Partnering

ABOUT CIRRUS AIRCRAFT
Cirrus Aircraft is the recognized global leader in personal aviation and the maker of the best-selling SR Series piston aircraft and the Vision Jet™, the world’s first single-engine Personal Jet and recipient of the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy. Founded in 1984, the company has redefined performance, comfort, and safety in aviation with innovations like the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®) – the first FAA-certified whole-airframe parachute safety system included as standard equipment on an aircraft. Worldwide flight time on Cirrus aircraft has passed nine million hours, and over 170 people have returned home safely to their families due to the inclusion of CAPS® as a standard feature on all Cirrus aircraft. The company has three locations in the United States: Duluth, Minnesota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; and Knoxville, Tennessee. Find out more at www.cirrusaircraft.com.

CIRRUS MISSION
To deliver our customers an aviation experience that is the pinnacle of innovation, quality, and safety.

ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking a Director of Finance Business Partnering in Duluth, MN. Home to our corporate headquarters, Duluth is a four-season city on the western tip of Lake Superior and was voted Best Town by Outside Magazine. The splendor of the world's largest freshwater lake offers many outdoor activities for adventure or rejuvenation. The North Shore lifestyle is known for its year-round activities, including bicycle and snowmobile trails, kayaking, rock climbing, fishing, hiking, golfing, sailing, and skiing. As a top employer in the area, Cirrus Aircraft was recently named “Best Overall Large Company to Work for in the Northland” and “Best Workplace Culture” by the Duluth News Tribune readers.  

This role will help lead Cirrus through continued growth. This individual will be responsible for partnering with all business units across the Customer Experience Team and Innovation & Operations to collaborate in problem-solving and drive performance improvements, including advancing and developing analysis for new business opportunities. The selected candidate will lead a team of analysts with the potential to grow in depth and/or breadth as business needs for financial leadership continue to grow.

• Oversee a team of analysts who partner with senior business leaders across the organization to execute advancements in profitability, predictability, adherence to business planning, and strategic direction.
• Provide variance reporting both to budget, forecast, and strategic plan, identifying gaps, risks, and countermeasures
• Design test cases for significant business decisions to confirm hypothesizes and expected results
• Provide mentorship to the team, expanding capabilities, developing a career path, and transforming into future leaders within the company, including a potential rotational program with new graduate candidates
• Distill complex problems, concepts, and challenges into simple and actionable direction
• Work closely with the accounting team to analyze results, reveal inefficiencies, and devise business and reporting enhancements
• Collaborate with FP&A for all planning cycles, including budgeting and short- and long-range forecasting, supporting business units as they develop and rationalize their planning
• Improve execution in entry into new lines of business and/or significant business process enhancements, ensuring Cirrus engages in long-term accretive expansion
• Function as key liaison to ensure Finance and Accounting are engaged in all new business changes and transformations
• Identify key risks and work with Internal Controls to ensure Cirrus has appropriate mitigation measures in place
• Take initiative to identify and “dig in” to problems across the enterprise, prosing and building consensus to deliver solutions
• Liaison between FP&A, Accounting, and Business Units to help develop actional reporting and dashboards in Power BI to review performance, track business health, and identify leading indicators for future action
• Work closely between Accounting and Business Units to improve internal financial processes and develop robust new processes for new endeavors
• Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Travel requirements are estimated at 25%, including the need to travel internationally.

ABOUT YOU
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA and/or MBA preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Finance and Accounting, with increasing responsibility; seven years of demonstrated leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical finance and accounting skills
• Excellent written an