Director, Central FP&A

Company Description

We take care of our employees, and they take care of our customers!

Become a member of a global community! The international logistics industry is an integral piece of the global trade puzzle; we make the world go round. Global supply chain management is what we do, and at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 19,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 350+ locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

Our Mission

We recruit, train, and retain the very best logistics and technical experts the world over. We love to promote from within - more than 50 percent of our employees have been at Expeditors for five years or more. Our high retention rate is influenced by a unique compensation program for positions that are more than just jobs - they're chances to grow, do what you love and build a career with us!

Job Description

Summary Description 

This Director will lead Expeditors’ Central FP&A team with primary responsibility for the finance calendar, monthly forecast, annual operating plan, consolidated management reporting, and Board and earnings support. Reporting to the Vice President of FP&A, this person will be a close thought partner, turning the FP&A vision into repeatable processes and a single enterprise view of performance. The role is hands-on: the Director will build a small, focused team that leverages Expeditors’ existing regional controller network as it scales. 

We’re looking for someone who has seen strong FP&A in action and can adapt that experience to Expeditors rather than copy a playbook. The right person is curious about our business, practical in solving problems, comfortable in an evolving environment, and ready to turn ideas into action. 

What You Do 

Lead Planning, Forecasting and Management Reporting 

• Lead monthly and quarterly forecasting, including timelines, assumptions, templates, consolidation, review, and communication. 

• Work with regional controllers, business partners and Finance leaders to gather forecast inputs and understand the operational drivers and external factors behind performance. 

• Facilitate constructive review and challenge of forecasts, helping leaders distinguish committed actions from known risks, potential opportunities, and longer-term aspirations. 

• Own enterprise tracking of significant strategic initiatives, ensuring their expected financial impact is reflected in the plan and forecast. 

• Evaluate forecast accuracy, identify recurring sources of variance, and improve forecasting methods over time. 

• Lead monthly management reporting on results, drivers, risks, opportunities, and outlook, connecting financial outcomes to the operating activities and decisions behind them. 

• Develop concise, executive-ready narratives on what changed, why it changed, and what actions or decisions may be required. 

• Lead the annual operating plan and long-range planning processes with the Vice President and own the finance calendar that connects them with the forecast. 

• Develop planning assumptions, templates, analytical methods, review materials, and quality standards. 

• Develop scenarios that show the range of potential outcomes, key dependencies and risks, and the actions required to reach a preferred result. 

• Translate company priorities into financial expectations, performance measures, and management actions. 

• Support Board and earnings preparation by coordinating accurate, well-documented analyses and executive-ready financial messaging that connects reported results, business drivers, risks, trends, and likely areas of investor or Board interest. 

Develop Financial Models and Analysis 

• Build and maintain the driver-based models behind the forecast, plan, scenarios, and enterprise consolidation. 

• Use sensitivity, scenario, and “what you have to believe” analysis to make plan and forecast assumptions transparent and stress-test outcomes. 

• Support enterprise capital allocation and financial capacity analysis, integrating major investment and acquisition cases into the plan. 

• Establish practical modeling standards for consistency, transparency, documentation, and quality, and coach team members in model design and quality assurance. 

Establish FP&A Processes and Management Rhythms 

• Translate the FP&A vision into repeatable processes, deliverables, governance, and management routines. 

• Establish practical standards for forecasting, reporting, planning, modeling, and financial review meetings, with clear objectives, inputs, owners, timelines, and expected decisions. 

• Build finance and management rhythms that improve business engagement, leadership preparedness, decision quality, and accountability. 

• Bring proven practices from mature FP&A environments, adapting them to Expeditors’ culture, management philosophy, and operating model after learning why existing practices developed. 

• Balance the immediate need for useful analysis with the longer-term goal of building scalable FP&A capabilities. 

• Serve as the business lead for the transition to Oracle EPM Cloud, defining planning, forecasting, and reporting requirements and designing processes that take full advantage of the new platform. 

Partner Across Finance and the Business 

• Partner with the Vice President to make FP&A a trusted source of enterprise performance insight for senior leaders and the Board. 

• Develop a deep understanding of Expeditors’ business model, economic drivers, organization, and global network, and how operating decisions flow through to accounting results. 

• Build credibility through accurate analysis, sound judgment, and responsiveness, approaching the business with curiosity and humility. 

• Challenge plan and forecast assumptions constructively while respecting the experience of business and functional leaders. 

• Work closely with Accounting, regional controllers, Treasury, Human Resources, Credit, and Investor Relations so FP&A extends existing Finance capabilities rather than duplicating them. 

• Develop enterprise KPI frameworks with the Vice President, and work hand in hand with finance business partners so business context flows into the consolidated view. 

Serve as a Senior FP&A Leader 

• Serve as a thought partner and right hand to the Vice President. 

• Shape financial analysis, executive messaging, and materials for important leadership discussions. 

• Coordinate FP&A priorities, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations. 

• Model the analytical rigor, business curiosity, judgment, and communication expected from the FP&A team. 

• Progressively expand executive-facing responsibilities, including presenting to senior leaders, as business knowledge, relationships, and credibility grow. 

Coach and Develop the FP&A Team 

• Build, lead, and develop a small, high-performing Central FP&A team. 

• Participate actively in recruiting, selecting, and onboarding FP&A talent, supporting the organization design and talent strategy set by the Vice President. 

• Set clear expectations for analytical quality, ownership, judgment, business understanding, and communication. 

• Build a team culture that values curiosity, disciplined analysis, constructive challenge, collaboration, and accountability. 

Qualifications

What Skills and Qualifications You Bring to Us 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field. 

• Ten or more years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a closely related discipline. 

• Experience in a mature FP&A organization within a large public company or similarly complex enterprise. 

• A track record of creating or materially improving forecasting, planning, management reporting, earnings, or Board processes, with measurable results such as shorter cycle times or better decisions. 

• Strong process orientation and the ability to build clear, practical, repeatable management rhythms. 

• Strong intellectual curiosity about business operations, economic drivers, customers, markets, and competitive advantage. 

• Ability to learn a complex business and translate operational performance into financial insight. 

• Experience leading and developing finance teams, as well as significant financial processes and cross-functional initiatives. 

• Strong understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, business drivers, and management reporting. 

• Ability to build and review financial models for forecasts, scenarios, strategic initiatives, and business decisions. 

• Ability to distill complex information into concise, executive-ready insights and recommendations. 

• Demonstrated strategic thinking, sound judgment, and a bias for action. 

• Ability to influence decisions through facts, structured thinking, and trusted relationships. 

• Ability to coach and develop finance professionals with varying levels of experience. 

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. 

• Ability to operate effectively where processes, information, systems, or responsibilities are still evolving. 

• Strong commitment to accuracy, transparency, confidentiality, and ethical decision-making. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Direct experience preparing earnings and Board materials. 

• Experience partnering with Controllership, Treasury, and Investor Relations in a corporate finance setting. 

• Experience with workforce planning, enterprise cost analysis, and strategic initiative tracking. 

• Familiarity with Oracle EPM, Power BI, or comparable planning, consolidation, and business intelligence tools. 

• MBA, CPA, CFA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification. 

• Global business perspective and the ability to work effectively across functions, geographies, and cultures. 

Expeditors Core Expectations 

• Exceptional Customer Service: Exceeds customer expectations by anticipating, understanding and meeting needs. Is proactive and when issues arise, is timely and resolute in solving problems, including escalating to management when necessary. Builds rapport and exhibits empathy during interactions and consistently strives to improve customer satisfaction with customers. (This skill expectation applies both externally (customers, service providers) and internally (other Expeditors offices/employees).  

• Job Execution: Consistently completes quality work that matches job expectations.  Is committed to operational excellence and continuous improvement for own job function and across the network.  All activities are compliant with company policies/procedures and code of business conduct and with government regulations.  

• Reliability: Consistently meets deadlines. Is punctual and can be relied on for planning purposes. Is organized, manages own time effectively and can prioritize.  

• Collaboration: Displays a willingness to accomplish not only his/her own job responsibilities without the need for constant prodding but is willing, without request, to aid and assist others to the benefit of the company and/or customers. Works in harmony with superiors and fellow workers without incident or delay.  

• Communication: Effectively listens to others and communicates (verbal and written) in a professional manner, both internally and externally. Provides relevant and timely information to co-workers, customers and service providers.  Answers phone calls and responds to voicemails, emails and other communication according to Expeditors' standards.  

• Culture: Exhibits and promotes the company’s 10 cultural attributes: Appearance, Attitude, Confidence, Curiosity, Excellence, Integrity, Pride, Resolute, Sense of Humor, and Visionary.    

• Personal Growth and Development: Participates in training within the company’s guidelines, completing at least 52 hours of relevant training per year. Completes required training in a timely manner with minimal reminders. Pursues professional development goals for self, including participating in a development plan as appropriate.  

Additional Information

Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Paid Vacation (first year prorated based off month of hire then eligible for 15 days) 
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.