Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Position Summary: The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a senior finance leader responsible for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. This role serves as a strategic business partner to senior leadership, providing insights that support investment decisions, cost management, and long-term growth.

The FP&A Director combines financial expertise with strategic leadership to support the organization’s financial health through sound planning, strong analysis, and effective executive communication.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead the FP&A function: Oversee budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling to support executive decision-making.
• Develop policies and procedures: Establish standards for financial data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Build financial models and forecasts: Develop and refine models, scenario analyses, and long-range financial plans.
• Monitor performance: Review of financial statements, reports, and key metrics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead budgeting and capital planning: Direct the annual budget process, including capital expenditure planning.
• Prepare management reports: Deliver quarterly and annual reports for senior leadership and the board.
• Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with departments to align financial strategies with business goals.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following.

Visionary Leadership – Displays passion and optimism; inspires respect and trust; mobilizes others to fulfill the vision; provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates.

Analytical – Synthesizes complex or diverse information; collects and researches data; uses intuition and experience to complement data; designs work flows and procedures; collects and researches data; uses intuition and experience to complement data; designs work flows and procedures.

Communications – Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

Business Acumen – Understands business implications of decisions; displays orientation to profitability; demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; aligns work with strategic goals.

Ethics - Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and principles; upholds organizational values.

Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.

Achievement Focus - Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; recognizes and acts on opportunities; takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.

Judgement - Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Experience: Typically, 10+ years in FP&A or finance management; 15+ years of total experience is often preferred by employers.
• Technical skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, financial modeling, data analysis, and finance systems.
• Soft skills: Strong analytical, strategic thinking, communication, and presentation skills.
• Industry knowledge: Deep understanding of the organization’s industry and financial operations.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and prescriptions.
• Ability to write routine notes and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet, Spreadsheet and Word Processing software.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is   regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. 

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.