Financial Planning and Analysis Director

Primary Function
The FP&A Director will provide enterprise-wide leadership over all financial planning and analysis functions, including financial analysis, scenario modeling, and forecasting, KPI design and measurement, performance reporting, and insight generation to explain business drivers, while supporting long-range financial strategic planning.
This role serves as a key advisor to executive leadership, translating financial analysis, trends and operational insights into actionable strategies that drive business performance and long-term value creation.
The Director will lead cross-functional planning and analytical review processes, influence critical business decisions, and ensure alignment between financial objectives and corporate strategy.
Additionally, this role is responsible for strengthening financial governance, enhancing reporting capabilities, deepening analytical rigor and insight generation, while ensuring compliance with regulatory and accounting standards and improving the quality, accuracy and usability of financial data across the organization.
Essential Duties
Strategic Financial Leadership
• Lead enterprise-wide financial planning, including forecasts and long-range plans,
• Oversee financial planning and budgeting processes with equal emphasis on analytical outputs and business insight
• Provide strategic financial guidance to executive leadership aligned with corporate objectives
• Drive scenario planning and long-term financial modeling to support strategic decision-making
• Provide forward-looking financial insights as well as retrospective analysis explaining performance drivers and variances
• Identify and evaluate risks, opportunities, and key value drivers across the organization
• Lead cash flow forecasting and reporting to ensure visibility into liquidity and operational cash drivers
• Assist with income tax planning and coordination in partnership with internal teams and external advisors
• Support debt management activities, including covenant monitoring, financial modeling, and helping prepare lender communications packages
Advanced Financial Analysis & Business Insights
• Lead enterprise-wide financial analysis, including variance analysis, profitability analysis, and trend identification across all business units
• Develop and standardize driver-based analysis to explain revenue, margin, and cost performance
• Translate operational data into actionable financial insights to support decision-making at the executive and division level
• Own development of analytical frameworks to evaluate product/service line profitability, customer segmentation, and capital efficiency
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on financial and operational performance to identify improvement opportunities
• Partner with business leaders to diagnose performance gaps and recommend corrective actions
• Establish consistent methodologies for financial analysis, including variance reporting and root-cause identification
• Support M&A, capital investments, and strategic initiatives through detailed financial and operational analysis
Executive Partnership & Decision Influence
• Act as a key advisor to senior executives and business leaders on high-impact decisions
• Lead financial evaluation of strategic initiatives, including capital allocation, acquisitions, and expansion opportunities
• Present financial insights, analytical findings, performance drivers, and forward outlooks, and recommendations to executive leadership
• Partner with operations to drive profitability, efficiency, and growth
• Define and document key assumptions tied to financial plans and strategic initiatives
Performance Management & Reporting
• Oversee enterprise financial KPI frameworks to ensure alignment with strategic goals and accountability across business units
• Establish accountability around financial targets and strategic initiatives
• Enhance corporate financial dashboards and KPI frameworks
• Lead development of executive dashboards, board-level reporting packages, and analysis driven reporting
• Establish data-driven performance management practices across the organization
• Ensure reporting includes clear insights, root-cause analysis, and recommended actions
Team Leadership & Organizational Development
• Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A team to strengthen analytical capabilities, business insight generation, and storytelling with data
• Establish best practices for financial analysis, insight generation, and planning
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement
Systems, Process Optimization & Governance
• Own FP&A systems strategy, including evaluation, implementation, and o