JOB SUMMARY:

The Financial Planning & Analysis Director leads enterprise financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to deliver accurate projections for senior leadership and the Board of Directors. Implementing best practices, they’ll ensure high confidence levels in financial plans and reporting. They’ll provide insightful reporting on financial results, key performance indicators, and projections to drive organizational focus on value creation priorities. By partnering strategically with business units, the Director will conduct data analytics to understand drivers of growth and profitability. Building and managing a capable finance team, they’ll design and deploy financial planning systems and tools to create an efficient and scalable FP&A function, streamlining processes and driving significant ad-hoc projects to enhance financial understanding and decision-making.

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• Experience defining, developing, and standardizing the production of KPIs, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly financial and Operational reporting and budget models and processes
• Experience working across departments, with executive teams and outside stakeholders
• Experience implementing budgeting and reporting software
• Experience with Microsoft’s “Power Suite” of tools – PowerBI, PowerQuery, PowerPivot or similar types of business intelligence/reporting tools
• SQL Querying experience to extract and analyze data
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration
• 15+ years of progressive experience in a financial or accounting related capacity of diverse financial management experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial analysis
• Experience in telecom industry preferred

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate by typing, reading, talking, and listening effectively. The employee will be required to work for extended periods of time at a desk on a computer and must be able to maneuver through office spaces as needed. Accommodation will be provided as necessary to ensure all employees can fulfill their job responsibilities effectively.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new team members for department.
• Oversees the daily workflow and strategic projects for the department.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads the short and long-range enterprise financial planning, annual budgeting and forecasting processes to ensure accurate and timely projections for senior leadership, operational management and the Board of Directors.
• Introduces best practice concepts that result in plans with high confidence levels in assumption inputs and financial statement outputs
• Provides insightful and actionable periodic reporting on financial and operating results and key performance indicators, and on projections and leading indicators to ensure sharp organizational focus on critical value creation priorities and levers
• Strategically partners with the businesses to conduct actionable data analytics to understand the drivers to business growth and profitability
• Produces management reporting tools assessing the financial performance of the business, as well as evaluating KPIs and the ROI on key investments
• Builds, develops and manages finance team capable of carrying out needed initiatives
• Understands and effectively communicates cost drivers in the organization
• Designs and deploys best-in-class financial planning systems and tools to create a highly efficient, effective, and scalable FP&A function Leverages current systems to streamline processes and gain insights
• Proactively drives significant ad-hoc projects and analysis of key business issues illuminating financial introspection