Director, Corporate Finance FP&A

Job Description:

Director, Corporate Finance FP&A

The Director, Corporate Finance FP&A serves as a finance partner to executive leadership and corporate functions across the enterprise. The role provides financial insight to support business decisions, manage planned and forecasted spending, evaluate risks and opportunities, and improve visibility into financial performance.

The Director is responsible for corporate-function indirect spend planning, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis, and allocations, as well as related period-end close support and financial data integrity. The role requires a strategic perspective and hands-on experience working with ERP, planning, consolidation, reporting, and business intelligence systems.

This finance leadership role includes responsibility for a small team. The Director will lead through financial expertise, prioritization, delegation, coaching, and strong cross-functional partnership. The successful candidate will be responsive, proactive, detail-oriented, and accountable for delivering accurate work and timely results.

This candidate will work out of our Chantilly, Virginia office.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Finance Partnership

• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership and functional business partners.

• Translate business priorities, operating plans, proposed investments, and cost-reduction initiatives into financial analysis and recommendations.

• Partner with executive leadership and functional teams to evaluate technology, information technology, facilities, capital expenditures, and other strategic investments; assess related risks and opportunities; and support informed decisions.

• Build effective relationships and collaborate across the organization to gather information, understand business needs, and deliver timely financial insight.

• Provide ad hoc analysis related to indirect spending, allocations, capital expenditures, independent research and development, bids and proposals, and other enterprise priorities.

Planning, Forecasting, and Allocations

• Lead quarterly forecasting annual planning activities for corporate functions across enterprise.

• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual activities within the Oracle EPM Indirect model, including planned, forecasted, and actual spending.

• Establish and maintain indirect spend allocation methodologies, drivers, assumptions, and related business rules; oversee the collection and validation of supporting information and delegate detailed allocation calculations to appropriate team members where practical.

• Review allocation results for accuracy and consistency with underlying financial and operational data; identify trends and variances and prepare clear explanations for relevant stakeholders

• Support rolling forecast updates and coordinate timely follow-up on assumptions, open items, data requests, and action items.

Reporting, Analytics, and Data Integrity

• Prepare and deliver recurring management reports and financial analyses covering actual results, forecasts, plans, indirect spending, allocations, and significant variances. Communicate key results, risks, and opportunities to relevant stakeholders.

• Own the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of corporate-function indirect spend data within Oracle EPM and ensure that it appropriately supports dashboards and financial reporting.

• Lead the development and ongoing enhancement of Snowflake-based dashboards and reporting solutions in partnership with IT.

• Perform detailed reconciliations and maintain appropriate controls over data mapping, reporting logic, supporting documentation, and resolution of discrepancies.

• Prepare comparative analyses and other financial materials for quarterly earnings-related activities, business reviews, and executive decision-making.

• Find ways to improve timeliness, consistency, usability, and automation of financial reporting.

Period-End Close and Financial Reporting Support

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities by reviewing financial results, accrual support, allocation activity, and other period-end information.

• Partner with Accounting to review accrual requirements, provide business context and supporting analysis, and help ensure items are recorded appropriately and on a timely basis.

• Analyze and explain financial variances to support reporting and management decision-making.

• Review indirect spend allocation results, explain significant variances, and communicate required follow-up to relevant stakeholders.

• Identify and escalate data issues, reporting inconsistencies, and unresolved items that could affect financial reporting or management decision-making.

Leadership and Execution

• Manage recurring deliverables, strategic projects, and ad hoc requests while maintaining accuracy, attention to detail, and adherence to established deadlines.

• Respond promptly to requests, acknowledge expectations, communicate status and potential challenges early, and provide timely updates on open items and deliverables.

• Escalate issues early, recommend solutions, follow through on commitments, and confirm when requested activities have been completed.

• Establish repeatable processes, calendars, templates, and documentation to support consistent execution.

• Delegate work appropriately, provide direction and context, and coach team members to improve quality, ownership, and execution.

Required Qualifications

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

• 8+ years progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, accounting, or a related field.

• Experience supporting executive leadership and operational or functional leaders.

• Strong experience with forecasting, annual planning, variance analysis, financial reporting, expense management, and indirect spend allocations.

• Experience managing and validating allocation methodologies, cost pools, allocation drivers, assumptions, and the distribution of planned, forecasted, and actual costs.

• Able to work with ERP, consolidation, planning, reporting, and business intelligence systems.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong proficiency with PowerPoint and Word.

• Able to do detailed reconciliations, validate data, maintain high standard of financial integrity.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deliverables, meet deadlines, respond promptly, and follow through consistently on commitments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the government contracting or professional services industry.

• Costpoint, Oracle EPM, Oracle consolidation and planning systems, Power BI, Snowflake, or comparable platforms.

• Familiarity with indirect cost structures, cost allocations, capital expenditures, independent research and development, bids and proposals, and government contract finance.

• Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulation and Cost Accounting Standards concepts.

• Able to work with IT to develop dashboards, reporting solutions, and data models.

• Experience leading process improvements or financial systems implementations.

• Experience coaching or directing Finance team members.

• Experience in a Big Four accounting, audit, advisory, or transaction services environment.

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