VP, Finance, Planning & Analysis

Summary:  

The Vice President, FP&A, serves as a key business partner with senior management, major business unit leaders, and the Accounting and Finance team members to drive strong financial performance and EBITDA growth. This role will build a sustainable FP&A capability that will align skills, experience, leadership style and values with the business’s, culture, strategic goals and operational needs to drive positive outcomes and achieve results. This hands-on position involves a high degree of analytical capability and the ability to distill insights from many disparate sources of information and synthesize findings into easy-to-understand implications for value creation opportunities. This individual will establish consistent monthly reporting that provides visibility into the performance of the business and the underlying drivers and KPIs to enable management to make informed, fact-based, real-time decisions. This individual will also lead the Annual Operating Plan (budget) and create and maintain budget/forecasting. The role involves supporting evaluation of bolt-on acquisition opportunities and supporting any associated integration in the near term.  

This role is based at our Corporate Office, Arlington TX, and will work onsite Monday – Thursday, with the option to work remote on Friday.

 Essential Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Partner with business leaders to attain strategic Financial Performance & EBITDA growth.
• Partner with the CFO and Executive Leadership to help grow the business and drive the organization through a transformative growth plan.
• Support transformational activities by taking ownership of the KPI process, measuring results and explaining variances; establishing a reporting cadence with functional leaders; develop and update cost-out and other transformation activity tracking and communicating to Executive/Board level. 
• Work with operations leadership to evaluate long-term strategic goals and required investments.
• Build and optimize MicroStrategy and Essbase BI tools to drive better business decisions and report real-time financials.
• Be a business partner to the leadership team by developing and persuasively communicating fact-based insights and data-driven analysis for the strategic direction of the business to support value creation initiatives across the organization.
• Review and revise KPIs and analytics, as needed, that enable management to make informed, fact-based, real-time decisions and automate monthly and quarterly Board reporting.
• Lead Annual Operating Plan (Budget) creation and maintain budget/forecasting.
• Provide accounting and financial reporting to support management decisions and drive accountability to plans, budgets, and forecasts.
• Partner with each Executive member and their organizations to establish a monthly cadence of P&L reviews with an aim to stay on track with financial performance goals.
• M&A: Support private equity sponsors and internal team in evaluating bolt-on opportunities and modeling scenarios; perform due diligence on, and integrate, bolt-on acquisitions; incorporate acquisition modeling into existing forecasting process and modeling; execute synergies and financial benefit realization.
• Build sustainable FP&A capabilities by outlining the requirements, both organizationally and functionally, to build a fit-for-purpose FP&A function at Petmate.
• Provide analysis of operating results compared to Plan, prior periods and forecasts. Includes implementation of a framework for P&L analysis and detailed explanation of margin variances.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervisory responsibilities of Accounting & Finance teams

 Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive FP&A experience
• Minimum 5 years in a corporate FP&A leadership role
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics is required; MBA preferred
• Experience in similar manufacturing environments
• Experience with Private Equity is ideal
• Must be effective and efficient in data mining or knowledge discovery - a process of massaging, testing and analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing the results in a way that enables informed financial decision making, up to and including the executive level
• Demonstrated time-management and multi-tasking skills coupled with a keen ability to prioritize assignments
• Demonstrated experience in the application of analytical methods of addressing business issues, with an emphasis on overall corporate decision analysis
• Experience moving processes from manual to automated is a plus
• Proficient knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and graphs required; advanced knowledge preferred
• Proficient knowledge of PowerPoint and preparing presentations required; advanced knowledge preferred
• Experience with Oracle software is a plus
• Experience with Hyperion/Essbase and MicroStrategy is a strong preferred

 Core Competencies:

• Concise and clear communicator, can articulate a vision and direction
• Experience in change management environment
• Able to successfully drive change agenda and fully accomplish all objectives
• Ability to foster an inclusive environment and inspire innovation and high performance
• Ability to negotiate through difficult situations and manage relationships diplomatically

Petmate is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.