Director of Finance Insights & Business Analytics

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A Brief Summary of This Position:

The Director of Finance Insights & Business Analytics is a finance leader responsible for transforming data into actionable business insight that drives decision-making, performance management, and value creation across Valmont. This position designs and delivers scalable, professional tools, dashboards and reporting solutions for leadership at multiple organizational levels, ensuring a unified view of key business drivers.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, FP&A, and business unit finance teams to identify critical business questions, translate them into analytical frameworks, and ensure leaders have clear, timely insight into financial and operational drivers. This role bridges gaps between multiple teams, driving consistency, scalability, and enhanced data usage across the finance organization.

Rather than owning technology platforms, this role owns the business problem—working in close partnership with IT and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence to ensure the right data, models, and tools are delivered to support strategic and operational decisions. This position requires a data science mindset—an ability to understand how data can be structured, modeled, and leveraged to inform predictive analytics, process automation, and emerging technologies such as Chatbots, Microsoft Co-Pilot, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

The ideal candidate combines technical expertise in data modeling, AI, visualization, and integration with strong business acumen to bridge the gap between raw data and strategic insight.

Essential Functions:

• Drive the development of executive-level insights and performance narratives that inform strategic, operational, and capital allocation decisions across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with IT and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence to leverage existing data platforms (Databricks) while tailoring solutions for finance-specific needs.
• Partner with FP&A, business unit finance leaders, and operations to define value-driving KPIs, performance targets, and standardized decision frameworks.
• Ensure financial and operational data is fit-for-purpose for decision-making, influencing data design and prioritization through partnership with IT and analytics teams.
• Provide oversight between business units and finance, ensuring operational data is translated into meaningful financial insights.
• Champion the  integration and data transformation from various structured and unstructured sources, ensuring finance has clean, reliable data for analysis.
• Identify data gaps and coordinate with IT, finance, and business stakeholders to improve data quality, governance, and accessibility.
• Support finance-driven data science and automation initiatives, providing the foundational data models and insights needed for advanced analytics and RPA.
• Act as enterprise subject matter expert to multiple stakeholder groups, ensuring financial leaders and business partners can effectively leverage the organization’s data and technology investments.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for data analysis within finance
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in data analytics and automation, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance finance’s analytical maturity and digital capabilities.
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise automation framework

Other Important Details about the Role:

This position exercises autonomy while reporting in a matrixed environment (to both the functional and business teams). The ability and desire to navigate competing priorities and execute in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is vital.  The individual must demonstrate business acumen specific to the teams they support while driving best practices in financial data and analytics. Individuals are expected to learn and utilize technological tools and resources to drive continuous improvement in our planning and forecasting processes. 

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Business Analytics, or a related field with 8+ years of progressive experience in finance leadership roles, such as FP&A, business finance, or enterprise analytics.
• Proven experience influencing senior leaders through financial insights, scenario analysis, and performance storytelling
• Experience working with large data sets, data modeling, and visualization tools.
• Strong analytical mindset with hands-on experience using BI tools (e.g., Power BI) to support business decisions
• Experience partnering with IT or analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions
• Working knowledge of Databricks, Azure SQL databases, or other cloud-based data environments.

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:

• Experience with Python for data wrangling or light analytics.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts (regression, classification, applied statistics) to support data science initiatives.
• Exposure to Microsoft Co-Pilot, RPA tools, or chatbot frameworks.
• Understanding of data governance and master data management principles.
• Experience integrating multiple ERP, CRM, or operational data sources into a single analytics layer.
• Background in process automation or workflow optimization.
• Experience building machine learning models
• Project management skillsets

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

• 401k retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off

• Employer paid life insurance

• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

• Work Life Support

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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