Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Overview

The Director of FP&A is responsible for leading financial planning and analysis activities across a $6–10B global enterprise, including manufacturing, retail, and transportation/distribution operations. This role provides strategic financial leadership, operational insight, and performance analytics to support business growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.

As a key business partner to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, the Director drives enterprise-wide financial decision-making, operational performance improvement, and long-range strategic planning within a highly matrixed global environment. The role also leads finance transformation initiatives focused on process optimization, automation, scalable reporting, and the advancement of AI-enabled analytics and decision support capabilities to improve speed, accuracy, and business insight.

The Director collaborates extensively with domestic and international teams, including offshore finance support operations in Vietnam and India, to enhance financial visibility, standardize processes, and build a high-performing, globally connected finance organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Enterprise Planning (immediate need)

• Bring rigor and cohesiveness for financial strategy and operations across retail, manufacturing cost accounting, and transportation/distribution segments
• Provide insights and analysis from detailed data, and work collaboratively with cross-functional leadership teams, as well as global finance colleagues to leverage these insights and analysis to drive towards better financial and efficiency outcomes
• Lead the financial components of the long-range strategy in partnership with the Transformation Management Office, TMO, and functional leaders. Ensure financial considerations are fully integrated in the long-term strategy with modeling, tracking, accountability and performance metrics
• Drive continuous improvement in operational finance processes and systems

Finance Transformation: Tools, Technologies and Best Practices (immediate need)

• Driving finance transformation:
  • Unifying the disparate transformation efforts around the globe
  • Identifying best practices and opportunities for improvement and efficiency
  • Driving enhanced data visualization throughout reports, presentations and business partnering materials
  • Benchmark against external benchmarks identifying opportunities to strengthen finance support
• Driving process improvement; making finance faster, smarter, and more scalable
  • Improving planning and forecasting processes
  • Automating reporting and reducing manual work
  • Enhancing data quality and accessibility
  • Building self-service analytics capabilities

Strategic Finance and Decision Support (mid-term objective)

• Build out the traditional FP&A and business partnering muscle:
  • Supporting major strategic initiatives (new markets, channels)
  • Project and investment analysis (ROI, NPV, IRR)
  • Business case development
  • M&A support (modeling, synergy tracking, integration support)
• Capital allocation recommendations
• Support operational budgeting and forecasting processes across all three business units
• Provide strategic analysis for major operational decisions and investments

Performance Management & Reporting (longer-term objective)

• Turning raw data into insight and accountability
  • Monthly/quarterly close analysis (variance vs. plan, prior year)
  • Executive reporting packages (board, CEO, CFO)
  • KPI definition and tracking (financial + operational)
  • Standardized dashboards and scorecards
• Identifying trends, risks, and opportunities
• Develop and implement standardized operational metrics and KPIs across all business segments

Global Shared Services Leadership (longer-term objective)

• Receive support from global shared services operations in Vietnam and India
• Ensure effective utilization of offshore teams for operational finance support
• Partner with business unit finance teams translating metrics into financial impact
• Standardize processes and controls across global locations for the three main business units
• Drive accountability and cohesiveness

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• CPA certification a plus
• 7-10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience
• Minimum 5 years managing large, complex finance organizations
• Experience in manufacturing or retail business
• Experienced working globally with distributed teams and with global capabilities centers
• Strong systems knowledge including ERP and financial planning tools

Required Competencies

• Strategic thinking and business acumen
• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Excellence in stakeholder management
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Outstanding communication skills
• Change management expertise
• Process improvement orientation

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally (25-40%)
• Primary work location at corporate headquarters with periodic visits to domestic and global locations

Additional Information

• Detailed analysis and support of financial operations for multiple business units with combined revenue of $6-10B in retail, manufacturing and transportation industries
• Key member of senior finance leadership team

The above description is intended to be indicative of the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual in this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the position.