Senior Director, FP&A - CPG industry experience

**Must have consumer products industry experience and will offer relocation assistance. Position is located in Burlington, MA and is onsite 4 days/week.

Our Senior Director, FP&A, will serve as the Chief Financial Officer’s right-hand person, leading strategic initiatives as well as leading financial planning and forecasting activities. As a true business partner, this individual will solve real business problems by forming and maintaining solid relationships within the business and using strategic analyses to understand and impact key business drivers:

• Lead the Company’s measurement of the impact of marketing initiatives, connecting them ultimately to revenue generation and profitability. Used scenario-based modeling to understand the impact of initiatives on consumer purchasing behavior.
• Define, develop, implement, and improve total company key performance indicators and methods for measurement, evaluation, and reporting on the key drivers of the business
• Develop profitability models at the brand, customer, and product level by working with commercial organizations and operations
• Lead and manage all aspects of company-wide financial planning, including strategic planning, the annual budgeting process, and in-year forecasting
• Implement best practices as it relates to financial planning and analyses including processes, systems, tools, and techniques across the global business functions
• Work directly with business unit leaders to solve business problems using the tools of financial analysis, forecasting and ad-hoc data analysis
• Responsibility for driving analysis and formulation of a plan to improve commercial spend effectiveness
• Develop and manage a team of two finance professionals
• Work across the director community to effectively solve problems, scope, and drive corporate initiatives to successful completion
• Lead and coordinate preparation of Board and management presentations related to strategy, state of business, initiatives as needed.
• Effectively present and work with the senior leadership team on financial planning priorities. Manage portfolio of FP&A projects including reporting and analysis projects, systems, process and capability building projects
• Implement financial and business review processes, systems and capabilities to improve financial performance of the Company including business review cadence, scorecards, strategy and planning cadence
• Lead financial analysis of initiatives, coordinating with Sales, Marketing, Consumer insights and other stakeholders, including development of KPIs, milestones and tracking methodologies
• Understand the key drivers of our business and be the subject matter expert, coaching your business partners in the areas of costing, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting
• Implement and oversee strong financial controls over accounting month, quarter and year-end accruals and expense management related to commercial spending, including monthly reviews, reconciliations, tracking and forecasting