Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Brief Description

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will support the Vice President of FP&A in overseeing annual operating and capital budgets, financial forecasting, multi-year planning, and financial reporting and analysis. This role will help implement a first-class FP&A process, replacing cumbersome Excel-based processes with responsive systems like Workday Adaptive and dashboards, improving operational and corporate efficiencies. The Director FP&A will interact with the Operational VP Finance, providing detailed reporting and analytics to understand financial ramifications of operational issues and suggest solutions. This position will also support balance sheet and cash forecasts, the capex decision process, M&A due diligence, and other corporate duties. Additionally, the role will administer the Planning and Forecasting system (Workday Adaptive), ensuring its integrity and synchronization with other systems like NetSuite. This is a hands-on role with processes management but no direct reports.

Key Deliverables

Support the VP FP&A in developing and implementing FP&A processes, as well as analysis and deliverables.Provide detailed reporting to corporate functions and business unit finance leadership.

• Deliver actionable financial analysis to business unit finance leadership, supporting strategic, operational, and financial objectives.
• Gather and organize detailed analytics and commentary from the field and corporate functions for analysis and decision-making.
• Administer Workday Adaptive Financial Planning & Analytics Systems, build reports, and train the field as needed.
• Support functions across the organization and input forecast feedback as needed.
• Provide analytical support for Mergers & Acquisitions activities.
• Support Corporate Finance in delivering reports to the Private Equity owner.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Month-End: Rollforward P&L results files for the current month; journal entries for one-off departments as needed; review corporate entries as needed; upload financials for non-Netsuite entities to Adaptive as needed; roll forward NMC results deck and internal monthly financial review deck; share results slides with BU leaders and request commentary; prepare one-off cost summary; prepare consolidated results slides; prepare consolidated balance sheet and corresponding slide; prepare LTM & debt covenants slides.
• Workday Adaptive Administration and Maintenance: Troubleshoot any issues with Netsuite load into Adaptive; confirm Adaptive tie-out to Netsuite multiple times throughout close; add new GL accounts and departments as needed; add new forecast versions as needed; layer in any manual adjustments as needed; create custom accounts and hierarchies as needed; user administration; build Office Connect reports for users as needed. Maintain detailed reporting and analysis using Workday Adaptive (web-based) and Office Connect (Excel add-on).
• Treasury: Weekly cash forecast using Chase Forecasting Tool, including maintenance of cash forecast mapping in the system.
• Corporate FP&A: Ensure timely and accurate budget vs actual analysis and future projections. Maintain the financial planning cadence on a rolling 8-quarter basis. Prepare corporate cost summary for 17 SG&A departments; update forecast for the remainder of the year; communicate monthly results to department leaders; prepare budgets and forecasts for all corporate overhead departments at year-end; support corporate SG&A functions daily on FP&A-related work and act as an advisor as needed.
• CapEx: Prepare presentations for all CapEx requests, transfers, and disposals (bi-weekly meetings); update CapEx trackers on an ongoing basis; prepare lease summary slides and supporting workbooks; prepare CapEx budget at year-end.
• Other: Keep up with ad hoc requests; perform due diligence for applicable acquisitions; prepare quarterly package for lender (e.g., compliance certificate); provide strategic guidance around capital financing options to support company growth needs; support detailed financial modeling processes that are consistent across the company.
  
  

Ideal Candidate Experience

• 10 years of FP&A experience, in a high-growth and fast-paced environment.
• Experience supporting acquisitions and integration.
• Track record of driving positive results in hands-on environments.
• Strongly prefer deep forecasting, transformation, strategic planning, and financial modeling experience.
• Demonstrated success in consistently producing timely and highly predictable financial models.
• Strong preference for experience in a large, multi-market, multi-service company.
• Strong verbal and written skills and ability to translate financial and operational data into actionable insights and business implications required.
• Experience in Adaptive Insights or other financial planning tools.
• Experience in databases and dashboards.