Dir - Fin. Planning & Analysis Salary: $125,000 - $155,000
Phoenix, AZ
Submit resume to Greg Taylor - gtaylor@excelsiorsp.com
Reference Job 01569658-514
Description
Newly created position as a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for our Clients Corporate headquarters for a dynamic, high tech firm. This position will report directly to the Corporate Director of FP&A and will provide financial leadership and finance decision support for the Corporate team. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, leading the rolling 6-quarter and long term planning processes with the generation of full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, leading the generation of management/BOD reporting for close and planning cycles, providing analytical support to corporate leaders (procurement, marketing, HR, IT, etc), providing ad-hoc analytical support to the Sr. Management team, and participating on the finance infrastructure steering committee, development and maintenance of parameter driven long term financial models for strategic planning and market analysis, and what-if modeling.
Duties And Responsibilities:
- Lead the rolling 6 quarter and long term planning processes including target setting, consolidation, and communication of result to the management team.
- Develop and implement processes and infrastructure to standardize and automate planning and close reporting and data aggregation throughout the organization.
- Develop and Maintain competitive and industry modeling framework and lead the data collection process.
- Maintain the FP&A intranet set to communicate and distribute calendars, processes, and approved data.
- Hire and develop a team of A players.
- Provide analytical support the Sr. Management for make vs. buy decisions, and modeling the financial impact of long term sales and supplier contracts and other ad-hoc analyses.
- Lead the integration of acquired entities into the Corporate planning process.
- Model and Forecast project based revenue and cogs and the associated impact to the financial statements (P&L, BS, and cash flow).
- Generate monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages to Sr. Management, including budget vs. actual, current vs. prior period, etc.
- Draft the MD&A for disclosure in 10Q and 10K filings.
- Participate on the FP&A and Corporate Finance systems and infrastructure steering committee.
- Participate in the design and user acceptance testing of a new planning and forecasting tool.
- Ad-hoc modeling of capital expenditures, R&D expenditure, and new business initiatives, etc..
- Other special projects as needed.
Requirements: - Masters Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
- Minimum10 years of financial experience at a multi-national manufacturing company experiencing rapid growth.
- Strong track record of developing highly productive and motivated staff.
- Demonstrated FP&A experience at the Corporate or Group level.
- Experience preparing and consolidating long-range plans, annual budgets, short-term plans, and monthly rolling forecasts.
- Good understanding of GAAP and hands-on experience performing financial close related activities.
- Deep understanding of financial statements and their inter-relationships.
- Understanding of inventory costing and transaction flow.
- Strong ERP systems experience (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics).
- Ability to research and identify problems, develop proposals, conduct analysis independently and in collaboration with others.
- Strong financial acumen with the ability to solve complex problems.
- Focus on critical thinking with the ability to drive decisions and execute effectively.
- Attention to detail, but ability to summarize into key points/ actionable items.
- Strategic thinker who can manage long and short term projects.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong coaching and development skills with direct reports.
- Ability to thrive and manage change in a high growth environment.