Sr. Director, FP&A

Position Summary:

The Sr. Director, FP&A is responsible for supporting Corporate SG&A Finance, IT, HR, and Legal Executive Leadership teams.  In this role you will be responsible for reporting, forecasting, budgeting and managing the consolidated SG&A cost structure.    

This role will actively manage & report on SG&A spend across multiple business lines on a global basis while directly reporting to the Sr. VP of FP&A.  This role will also engage and interact with the Corporate CEO as members of the Senior Leadership team.  

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:

Pillar 1: Strategic Planning

• Collaborating with the SG&A functional leaders to develop and implement a cost management plan across each functional pillar.
• Supporting the development of forecasts, budgets, and business investments by collaborating with functional business areas to gather data, consolidating, and presenting summary of updates.
• Identifying operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; engaging strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources.
• Drives business value by providing financial and analytical counsel to facilitate decision-marking around strategic business initiatives.

Pillar 2: Management Reporting

• Trusted advisor and strategic partner to members of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Senior Leadership Team (SLT), earning the confidence of business stakeholders to bolster strategic decision-making and foster organizational collaboration to achieve sustainable growth and operating efficiency to drive value creation.
• Empower leadership with critical insights by developing, maintaining, and refining business KPIs, and proactively identifying opportunities for operational enhancements.
• Responsible for partnering with business owners to create and maintain various analyses including:
  • Analysis of historical financials
  • Creating, updating, refining, and maintaining financial models
  • Variance explanations
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Leading indicators
• Setting standards and measuring progress; anticipating and removing obstacles that impact performance; addressing performance gaps and implementing contingency plans accordingly and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.

Pillar 3: Decision Support & Controls

• Execute specialized analyses utilizing internal financial systems, transforming data into clear, impactful presentations for senior management, facilitating strategic conclusions and recommendations.
• Provide meaningful business insights to optimize executive financials decisions, through rigorous financial reporting and analysis capabilities.
• Responsible for collaborating with business owners and HR to approve hiring outlined in Budget/Forecast.
• Designs and implement processes, frameworks and systems that allow us to capture and utilize timely and accurate financial data across the business to make better decisions
• Monitor and control expenses, ensuring adherence to budgetary guidelines, and identifying areas for cost optimization.
• Lead strategic projects and support senior leadership on ad hoc research and analysis.
• Use systems solutions to streamline reporting and automate internal processes.
• Drive collaboration by serving as a trusted business partner to various leaders across business units
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports.

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum concentration accounting, finance or business
• A minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience

Other Required:

• Proven track record of operationalizing cost management plans.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• High proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, Salesforce, Power Query, Power Pivot, BI dashboards and ERP systems
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across functions and levels of an organization.
• Strong attention to detail, with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
• Good time management and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to propose positive business solutions to problems.
• Professional that thrives in a dynamic, past pace, high growth environment
• Proven critical thinking, analytical, interpretative and problem-solving sk