Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

StevenDouglas is partnering with a $5B privately-held company in Maryland to help them find their next Director, FP&A. The Director, FP&A is responsible for leading the strategic financial planning and analysis, as well as partnering with business operations regarding the analysis of M&A activity. This is a newly created position and the organization is looking for a strong leader to partner with the VP, Corporate Finance.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares components of the annual and long-range financial plans as well as forecasts for key stakeholders.
• Analyzes budget and forecast information for accuracy, reasonableness and consistency with objectives.
• Manages assigned FP&A staff and provides consistent support, coaching and encouragement necessary to achieve business goals.
• Directly or through staff, provides analytical support for management, operations, corporate departments and parent company board of directors.
• Analyzes and reports consolidated monthly, quarterly and annual results for operating segments and general & administrative expenses.
• Provides recommendations for revenue and profitability improvement.
• Develops priorities to improve productivity, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Conducts industry and competitive analyses to identify and address the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
• Prepares business cases for corporate capital projects.
• Conducts semi-annual impairment analyses.
• Assesses lease disclosures for reasonableness, consistency and conformity with corporate policies.
• Conducts analysis and valuation of acquisition targets, due diligence, and integration of targets or divestitures in supports of M&A activities.
• Supports M&A terms and conditions negotiations.

Qualifications:

• Requires a demonstrated level of financial acumen typically achieved through the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or Finance; and 7-10 years of relevant budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and accounting experience in a large corporate environment.
• Requires expert level Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to create and modify pivot tables and advanced formulas.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of financial planning and reporting applications (e.g., Anaplan, CCH Tagetik, PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion, Business Objects, Adaptive/Workday, Oracle, IBM, etc.) preferred.
• Requires ability to manage team member(s).
• Requires ability to work as a part of a cross-functional team and all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Occasional travel may be required based on business needs.