Director, Fp&A

Job Description

The Director, FP&A is responsible for managing the planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis of business performance in partnership with the VP, FP&A.

Position location: This role is designated as a hybrid role which includes working at least 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in our main office located in Deerfield, IL to foster better collaboration, connection, and innovation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with the Finance Transformation Office and provides requirements to design and implement FP&A processes, ultimately advancing FP&A team capabilities.

• Collaborates with the leads and teams of the Business Unit Commercial Finance and Operations Finance, understands BUs financial results, business drivers, impacts of macro-economic drivers, and primary causes of performance variances vs PY, Plan, Forecasts.

• Highlights risks, opportunities, and trends within forecasts/plans and effectively communicates to the BUs Finance leadership team.

• Works collaboratively with BUs Commercial and Operations Finance to develop and improve Strategic Planning, Annual Planning, and Forecasting modeling, tools, and overall FP&A process improvements.

• Leads development of the FBIN Strategic Plan and Annual Plan; collaborates with the BUs Commercial and Operations teams on development of the BUs Strategic Plans and Annual Plans.

• Leads consolidation of the FBIN and Water Segment monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results and develops management reporting / presentations.

• Leads preparation of executive and board of directors' presentations.

• Provides business partnering support to FBIN central function leadership

• Partners with Strategy team to provide financial analysis of portfolio strategy alternatives, strategic initiatives, and capital allocation decisions.

• Supports VP FP&A in acquisition financial due diligence efforts, including but not limited to partnering with 3rd party to perform Quality of Earnings assessments.

• Partners closely with HR and CFO to create financial models to calculate and measure Global incentive bonus programs.

• Leads global initiatives to advance and improve Forecasting and Planning processes through process redesign, technology improvements, and/or training of finance staff.

• Develops a team of 3 by providing work direction, timely feedback, annual performance assessments, coaching, mentoring and career development planning and opportunities.

• Global reporting, ad hoc analysis, and other special projects as assigned. Responsible for aggregating global reports on key customers, brands, and other strategic areas of importance for delivery to the Executive Committee. Also, coordinates ad hoc global reporting depending on the needs of the Corporation in any given quarter.