Corporate Director - FP&A

Bring your FP&A expertise to Charter Manufacturing and make a big impact!

POSITION PURPOSE/MISSION:

Build, drive, sustain, standardize, and simplify the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes and support technology enterprise wide. Implement and sustain a strategy to adopt critical skills, tools, processes, governance, and infrastructure for FP&A across the enterprise to enable business unit FP&A functions to be value-added business partners. Primary decision maker and process owner for FP&A with a focus on evolving the process through collaboration with business unit finance and leadership teams.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related degree.

• Ten plus years’ of progressively responsible experience in accounting and/or finance.

• Five plus years’ experience leading an FP&A function.

• Experience planning and forecasting in a manufacturing environment.

• Experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and change management skills.

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and qualitative analysis skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with other functional areas and business units.

• Ability to communicate financial information in a clear and concise manner to all levels of the organization.

• Proven ability to drive Continuous Improvement efforts across functions and business units.

• Proven ability to influence without authority, including cross-business collaboration and problem solving.

• Proficient with advanced features of Microsoft Office software products (Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) and/or CPA.

• Experience with CPM methodologies and systems.

• Experience with business intelligence & analytics platforms to drive analysis, decision-making, and reporting.

• Demonstrated leadership in data analysis and visualization, use of technology, and digital transformation.

• Strong knowledge of FP&A activities including forecasting, planning, consolidations and reporting, data modeling.

• Demonstrated leadership in skill building and talent development in FP&A and advanced analytics.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Serve as process owner immediately accountable for building, driving, sustaining, standardizing, and simplifying FP&A processes and supporting technology enterprise-wide.

• Develop and cultivate FP&A skillset across enterprise-wide Finance team.

• Develop standardized forecasting and planning processes and governance across all business units with focus on reduction of complexity while deriving business insights and enabling decision-making.

• Lead development of driver-based forecasting model including integration of internal and external factors for all business units to enable predictive forecasting and scenario modeling.

• Direct RFP, vendor selection, process and system design and implementation of enterprise-wide forecasting and planning system.

• Development of KPI’s and relevant performance metrics to ensure compliance with FP&A guidelines.

• Establish partnership with IT to evaluate and approve technology solutions for FP&A functions.

• Partner with Corporate Director of Finance for strategic planning deliverables.

• Follow Environmental, Quality and Safety Management System procedures and requirements.

• Ability to meet the essential job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation, as outlined in the job description.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SUPERVISION:

• Dotted-line for Finance Manager – Corporate and associated team

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to: Corporate VP of Finance

• Primary internal customers: CFO, Corporate VP of Finance, Executive Leadership Team, Business Unit Presidents and Leadership Teams, Business Unit Finance Leaders

• Primary external customers: Board of Directors, Bank Partners

POSITION CHALLENGES:

• Driving standardization in process and data across autonomous business units.

• Change management and influencing decision-making in areas not under direct control.

• Adhering to demanding timelines for forecast and plan.

• Ensuring accuracy in all sources of information and reports for the department.

• Understanding where to gather information from within a wide variety of sources and clearly deliver it in a way that helps support decision needs of managers outside the department.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Work Location: One location