Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

Astra Service Partners

Astra Service Partners is seeking a dynamic, results-driven, and people-focused Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to join our leadership team. This is a pivotal role where you will shape the strategic direction of the company, drive sustainable growth, enhance profitability, and lead a high-performance team of finance professionals.

 

At Astra the Head of FP&A role is not just a job—it's an opportunity to make a tangible impact on our company's continued success and growth trajectory. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping our strategic direction, driving value creation initiatives, and developing an analytical muscle that will drive decision making throughout the company. Your contribution will be instrumental in shaping the future of our organization and positioning us as a leader in the commercial field services industry.

 

Position Location:

• The position will be based at our Boulder, CO Headquarters.
• The ideal candidate must possess the ability and be willing to travel 25% to operating companies across the United States.

 

Traits We Seek:

• Exceptional Analytical Skills: we want to build a data-driven organization and will prioritize candidates with exceptional analytical prowess, with a proven track record of transforming data into insights.

 

• Versatility: a mind with a lot of range, capable of navigating equally comfortably in strategic topics (e.g., where to deploy capital, what incentives to set, organizational structure, etc.) and tactical ones (e.g., building new processes, executing analysis, etc.)

 

• Business partnership: is very collaborative and capable of influencing business partners to course correct, based on sound analysis and business judgement.

 

• Knows excellence: has operated in highly sophisticated FP&A environments and dealt with high levels of complexity. Knows what great looks like and is eager to build an even better operation.

 

• Roll-up-your-sleeves attitude demonstrates a hands-on approach and willingness to tackle challenges head-on.

 

Key Experiences:

 

• Extensive FP&A Background: extensive FP&A experience in a complex organization spanning multiple business units, geographies, or categories.

 

• Value creation: experience identifying and quantifying value creation levers, and subsequently structuring and leading efforts to capture these opportunities.

 

• Infrastructure building: the ideal candidate will have built new processes and/or lead deployment of systems that enable advanced analytics and enhance data-driven decision making. Experience with tools like Workday Adaptive is a strong plus.

 

• Pricing: experience with a variety of pricing tools (e.g., elasticities, yield management, bundle-pricing, dynamic pricing, etc.) is a highly desirable skillset.

 

• M&A Exposure: not a must, but familiarity with an M&A environment and related requirements (pro-forma, analysis, quality of earnings, opening balance sheets, etc.) would be helpful.

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Strategy and playbook development: help shape our strategy, by crafting playbooks that (i) distill the most relevant value creation levers across Orion's operations and (ii) outlines best practices to further improve execution

 

• Analysis: gather market intelligence, conduct internal and external benchmarking, and delve into unit economics to inform strategic decisions.

 

• FP&A System ownership: oversee the implementation and, later, companywide adoption of a system like Workday Adaptive to enhance financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis capabilities.

 

• FP&A routines ownership: establish and manage company-wide processes for budgeting, forecasting (P&L, cash flow), deal post-mortems, KPI tracking, and capital planning.

 

• Team Development: build an ‘analytical muscle’ throughout the organization, by supporting our four verticals in their FP&A hiring effort and general capability development.

 

Reporting Structure:

This role reports directly