Senior Director of Finance and Analytics

Description

The Senior Director of Finance & Business Analytics is a strategic business partner who provides value-added financial insight. The Sr Director of Finance and Analytics work-product directly informs key strategic decisions, continuous improvement, and core business operations for a broad group of Arrow’s stakeholders and leaders. The Sr Director of Finance and Analytics must go beyond identifying variances from sequential and forecasted financial results; the Sr Director of Finance and Analytics will identify and isolate core performance drivers and recommend value- creating or corrective actions.  The Sr Director of Finance and Analytics will regularly communicate these insights with the CFO & Executive Committee members.

As such, this role requires a seasoned and hands-on FP&A leader who can develop relationships and extract insights from throughout the Arrow organization.  Lead and develop a team of FP&A professionals, and roll up his/her sleeves and dive directly into the data/systems/models/etc. Additionally, the Sr Director of Finance and Analytics will drive a cohesive and consistent approach to FP&A across the organization.

What You’ll Do | Key Accountabilities

• Consistently delivers value-added FP&A work product and insights such that the CEO, CFO, and all business leaders view the Sr Director of Finance and Analytics as a strategic partner and expert on financial matters.
• Develops and implements robust procedures that create accurate, timely, relevant, and insightful financial statements, measurements, forecasts, budgets, plans, and business analysis leveraging data analytics. 
• Oversees the monthly management financial reporting package including key financial metrics and performance indicators. Designs and creates actionable presentations that effectively communicate key financial and operational messages. Understands the drivers of and importance of both the content being presented as well as the way it is visually shown (including creating/contributing to materials for the executive committee and external constituents. 
• Provides meaningful variance analysis comparing financial results with all relevant comparison points. Provides business narrative to bring the figures to life and drive action.
• Leverages financial expertise and robust business acumen to provide comprehensive decision support. Actively contributes to the creation of strategic and tactical plans. Provides financial modeling to drive an understanding of the short and long-term financial (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow) implications for significant business decisions and/or investments. Challenges the assumptions made by the business/operations leaders. 
• Creates actionable management reporting and dynamic dashboards to drive a deep understanding of financial and operational performance, using key performance indicators (KPIs). Translates metrics into financial impact to help business/operational leaders prioritize business issues.
• Leads and presents the quarterly forecasting process (develops a 13-month rolling forecast), driving insights into forward-looking performance, including alternate scenarios and contingency plans.
• Builds, develops and innovates business analytics, to identify and execute new ways to create true business insights. Constantly identifies new ways to align data with business knowledge and deliver incremental value. Spearhead development of a BI team focused on driving engagement and value through business leaders.
• Fully leverages available technology and drives the organization to embrace new technologies as they become relevant (i.e., advanced analytics, data visualization, process automation, data warehousing, etc.).
• Demonstrates clear passion and drive to support rapidly growing business which requires insightful analysis to support data-based decision-making.
• Actively identifies ways to eliminate non-value work and leverages automation whenever possible.
• Manages and/or assists with special projects on group-wide initiatives, process simplification as requested.
• Supports acquisition activity, including due diligence and post-merger integration as needed.
• Builds cross-functional relationships and act as a thought partner with all key business areas.
• Leads, develops and inspires a high performing team of leaders and individual contributors. 

Requirements

What You’ll Bring | Skills & Experience

• At least 15 years of total business experience with a minimum of 10 years FP&A specific experience with strong knowledge and solid understanding of financial accounting, modeling, and analysis. Candidate will have significant experience working in retail. Private equity experience preferred, IPO experience a plus.
• Direct management