Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

• • Deliver financial and operational support including managing the annual budget process and forecasts.  

  • Provide deep dive analytics and recommendations for the business around sales, performance, productivity, headcount, and other key metrics.  

  • Work with business leadership on identifying growth opportunities, future product development priorities, and overall go-to-market strategies. 

  • Design and provide meaningful financial and operational metrics to enable insightful, accurate business decision-making.  

  • Partner at all levels with business units to enable data driven decision making byway of delivering value-added consolidated and divisional business analyses.  

  • Communicate business focused planning, analysis and partnership providing a foundation for the development of a unified enterprise-wide vision 

  • Drive culture that embraces and promotes innovative business relevant thinking and decision making that accomplishes organizational goals. 

  • Deliver monthly revenue reporting on KPI’s, operational dashboards, key business trend analysis, actual versus budget variances and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences. 

  • Build and oversee a high-performing organization that has a comprehensive understanding of all key business drivers, employs sophisticated financial models, and delivers insightful observations and recommendations to drive performance and growth. 

  • Establish, strengthen, and maintain business partnerships with key business and financial contacts across the organization to deliver end-to-end financial solutions & support. 

  • Develop a thorough understanding of the industry, business, organization, processes, and workflows to develop and enhance financial models and provide a broad range of financial and operational support. 

  • Drive and manage ad hoc special projects or analysis for strategic initiatives, market expansion, and potential commercial transactions or acquisitions  

You Need to Have:  

• • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field. 

  • Advanced credentials such as a MBA, CPA, or CFA preferred.  

  • A minimum of 10+ years’ experience covering a broad range of accounting/financial analysis activities conducted at a high level of complexity, including progressively more complex assignments or projects. 

  • Strong executive presence, interpersonal and political savvy with excellent communication, relationship building and influencing skills.  

  • Previous experience in a Finance leadership role supporting a business unit and/or a full business unit P&L with exceptional leadership skills and previous experience managing Finance professionals. 

  • Strong knowledge of GAAP and various financial analysis tools, such as discounted cash flows, activity-based management, and variance analysis, strong project management skills 

  • Ability to design, analyze and improve planning process 

  • Strong skills utilizing a large integrated ERP/MRP computer system (e.g. Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards). 

  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and deep experience in financial modeling, planning reporting and analysis. 

  • The ability to analyze complex information and present / interpret insightful findings succinctly.