Director, Financial Planning

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Riverwoods, IL, USA
In-Office
152K-271K Annually
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Lead strategic financial planning and oversight across multiple departments. Direct senior managers, drive advanced financial analysis and modeling, ensure regulatory compliance, present executive-level reports, and implement initiatives to improve organizational profitability and performance.
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Job Description Summary

Responsible for developing, directing, planning and evaluating financial plans and policies in budget analysis, financial analysis, treasury operations, and corporate planning or risk management. Directs the evaluation of current and proposed financial plans and policies and recommends changes that will accrue to the organization's profitability. Identifies financial opportunities to improve the profitability of the organizational unit.

Job Description

About the Role:
As a Director, Financial Planning, you will provide senior leadership to high-level professionals and managers. You will be principally responsible for the overall performance and strategic financial management of your area. This role demands exceptional financial acumen, strategic insight, and leadership skills to ensure the organization's financial objectives are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities:
• Lead senior managers and high-level financial professionals.
• Oversee and guide the strategic financial planning process.
• Supervise the analysis of advanced financial data and emerging trends.
• Develop and present high-level financial reports to executive leadership.
• Craft and implement organizational financial strategies.
• Ensure comprehensive compliance with all financial regulations and standards.
• Drive the ongoing development and optimization of financial models.
• Partner with executive leadership to shape strategic financial decisions.
• Oversee the performance and results of multiple financial planning departments.
• Spearhead initiatives that provide significant business and financial impact.
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience.

Senior Leadership: Ability to guide and drive high-level professionals and teams.
• Strategic Insight: Expertise in interpreting and utilizing complex financial data.
• Advanced Planning and Analysis: Skills in creating detailed and strategic financial plans.
• Regulatory Expertise: In-depth understanding of financial compliance and regulations.
• Executive Partnership: Ability to collaborate effectively with top-level executives.
• Financial Innovation: Competence in developing and enhancing financial models and strategies.
• Organizational Performance: Skills for ensuring high performance across multiple departments.
• Impactful Initiative Management: Ability to lead initiatives that drive major financial outcomes.

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To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.


Compensation:

$151,700.00 - $270,950.00 USD
This role is eligible for Bonus.

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position.  Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process. 

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience
  • Senior leadership experience managing high-level professionals and teams
  • Expertise in interpreting and utilizing complex financial data (strategic insight)
  • Advanced planning and analysis skills, including developing strategic financial plans
  • In-depth understanding of financial compliance and regulations (regulatory expertise)
  • Experience partnering with executive leadership and presenting to executives
  • Proven ability to develop and optimize financial models and strategies (financial innovation)
  • Experience overseeing performance across multiple financial planning departments (organizational performance)
  • Ability to lead initiatives that drive significant business and financial impact (initiative management)
  • Experience in budget analysis, financial analysis, treasury operations, corporate planning or risk management

Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
  • Parental & Family Support Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.

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The Company
Hagerstown, MD
18,996 Employees

What We Do

Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).

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