Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

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Were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

• Serve as an objective financial steward with an enterprise perspective who enables effective decision making that creates value by identifying areas of financial underperformance to help turn them into opportunities to drive revenue growth margin improvement and cost savings.
• Execute maintain and continuously improve annual standard costing with Quality Manufacturing Supply Chain and Engineering to ensure purchase price variance material usage variance direct labor variances and overhead variances and absorption concepts are understood and evaluated for accuracy.
• Drive process improvements by identifying need for change proactively gathering requirements designing developing and implementing change
• Provide leadership and support to Global FP&A projects supporting overall process improvements and standardization as required.
• Standardize and harmonize companys cost pools and costing processes globally where possible. Ensure structure is optimized for tax and statutory purposes where applicable.
• Be the financial owner for the global cost and quoting policies.
• Support and improve variance reporting cost-to-quote process and KPIs with an operational lens including working with IT to make system updates where needed.
• Prepare financial reviews including coordinating activities across functions businesses and groups developing a thorough understanding of the results (P&L Balance Sheet and Free Cash Flow) and providing insights on trends.
• Identify and communicate financial/operational trends that represent a significant impact to the business and possible what if scenarios.
• Develop financial forecasts and support long-range planning processes with BU partners and Regional/Enterprise teams.
• Provide support to BU teams in matters of cost variance analysis and budget including preparing analytics impacting materials and labor to influence manufacturing operational process improvements.
• Understand customer profiles and market dynamics impacting pricing of products.
• Partner with other finance disciplines to enable business performance: controllership analytics systems and continuous improvement.
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Education and Required Experience

• Education: Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or a related field. CPA and/or MBA preferred.

Experience

• 10 years of experience in an FP&A or a related accounting role. 5 years of planning executing and leading projects.
• Experience in a global manufacturing and supply chain environment. Standard costing environment required..
• Experience working with a SaaS CPM Solution such as Adaptive Planning Hyperion experience a plus.

Skills Required

• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Deep understanding of financial budgeting and forecasting concepts and modeling.
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong results orientation with a track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact successfully with all levels of management.
• Professional executive presence and poise; drives business results through clear communication and collaboration.
• A team player who is collaborative and receptive to ideas from others and works effectively across functions to identify and resolve critical issues.
• A creative yet pragmatic problem solver who is hands-on as and detail oriented.
• High level of integrity attend to detail and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.

If you like wild growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll enjoy your career with us!

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