Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Irvine based, global technology company

$160-190K plus bonus plus equity

The Director of Financial Planning and Analysis will be responsible for providing the executive leadership team critical analysis and recommendations that will fuel our continued profitable, double-digit growth. Position oversees all financial planning, financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, planning & control, monthly financial close and reporting activities for multiple sites.

Company info:

• Leading global manufacturer supporting multiple industries
• Approximately $600mm in WW revenue
• Approx 150 people at the Irvine HQ, near John Wayne Airport
• ERP: NetSuite
• Hybrid schedule

Keys:

-Must have strong experience in a large manufacturing company setting ($400M at a minimum). Publicly traded company experience highly preferred

-Must come from a fast paced company with a high level of complexity

-Great leadership skills and ability to implement change.

-Strong desire to interface and partner with personnel at the plant locations. Experience in a multi-setting environment is highly preferred

This person will:

• Identify key revenue growth and profit improvement opportunities
• Help craft the three-year strategic plan and annual operating plans
• Provide monthly financial performance analysis and forecast commentary
• Work with functional leaders to identify projects that support the corporate strategic and operating plans
• Attract, develop, and retain a world-class team that is capable of partnering with business leaders to model the financial impact, establish KPIs, track progress, and successfully deliver projects that meet or exceed expectations
• Partner with HR & functional leaders to build staffing / headcount models
• Success in this role requires an individual with a sound business acumen who can comfortably navigate between the “what-if” world of financial models and the real-world challenges that successful businesses must overcome. This is a unique opportunity for the right dynamic, agile, intellectually curious individual to help lead a world-class finance team in a rapidly growing organization and make an immediate impact across the business.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Accounting.
• 8-12 or more years of relevant work experience (FP&A, business analysis, manufacturing).
• MBA preferred.
• A well rounded individual that brings a great attitude.
• Intellectually curious, strategic thinker that is able to drive change through strong relationships/influence but is willing to roll up his/her sleeves to ensure success.
• Experience leading a world-class team; developing team members to grow their responsibilities and advance their careers.
• An entrepreneurial and innovative skillset to analyze, measure, problem solve, and present recommendations that provide visibility to forward looking opportunities.
• Must have the maturity and confidence to deal directly with C-level executives.
• Experience developing complex reports and providing summarized, actionable analysis to all levels of the organization.
• Makes decisions without perfect information.
• A history of exercising solid business judgment to help set/manage priorities and validate assumptions.
• Comfortable presenting to customers and working with trading partners throughout the value chain.
• Solid project planning and project management background.
• Works well with little oversight, owns projects from idea to implementation and delivers on time, under budget, and to scope.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to deliver time-sensitive analyses in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to accomplish complex objectives.
• Strong financial modeling skills including: developing models to understand complex business scenarios, gathering data from a variety of internal and external sources, validating it, performing analysis using flexible modeling techniques, drawing conclusions, translating them into action plans, and successfully executing against the plans.
• Tech savvy and high proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Ability to provide business recommendations without perfect information.
• Demonstrated experience driving revenue growth and cost savings, solid interaction with all business functions throughout the P&L.