Director FP&A Job at Evenflo Company Inc, Canton, MA

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  • Evenflo Company Inc
  • Canton, MA

Job Description

Director FP&A Location Canton, MA :

Responsibilities & Candidate Profile:

The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will be responsible for all aspects of financial planning and analysis, including: budgeting and forecasting; development of management reports; design and deployment of key operating metrics and the company scorecard; providing accurate and timely reporting to the CEO and CFO; supporting the company's commercial functions with strategic financial analysis; preparing investor charts and materials; and engaging in company-wide business planning.

The position will lead the implementation of system and process improvements in financial reporting and budgeting activities. The position will also engage with the Corporate Controller to provide best-in-class financial reporting. The role will partner with key functional leaders to grow the business while controlling costs, while managing and developing a high-performing team.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, acumen for financial analysis and identifying trends, ability to design and maintain organized databases, high level of accuracy and attention to detail, desire to improve processes and implement change; and experience in leading teams to improve functional reliability and performance. The position will work directly with a wide span of functional leaders and executives. As such, the candidate will need to have demonstrated capabilities in effectively partnering on a cross-functional basis and engaging with executives in a manner that aligns financial analysis with the company's strategies and objectives.

Examples of Typical Activities:

  • Set the direction for annual, quarterly, and monthly business planning activities
  • Establish the timeline and approach for preparing the annual budget and periodic financial forecasting
  • Enhance the forecasting process and manage forecasts, working closely with sales, marketing, and operations to incorporate expectations for volume and margins by customer and category
  • Maximize product profitability through thorough analysis and understanding of pricing and costing
  • Develop or refresh key management reports and gain user input and acceptance to templates for business management reporting, including consistent and accurate reporting of profitability by customer, product category, and key initiatives
  • Prepare analysis, materials, and charts for senior executives to use with the company's investors
  • Perform ad hoc financial analysis, including modeling outcomes of various business scenarios
  • Direct and manage the activities of analysts to provide pricing desk support and margin analysis to commercial teams
  • Create guidelines and thresholds for the prioritization of capital expenditures, ensuring to drive focus to margin enhancements
  • Produce investment analysis templates and financial tracking models to drive accountability in the product development and commercial launch cycles

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • MBA and CPA preferred
  • Requires 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in financial reporting and analysis, budgeting, business partnering, ERP systems, managing information in databases, and leading a team
  • Experience in large corporations with FP&A management responsibilities, reporting to a business unit general manager or finance leader.
  • Experience in consumer products industry a plus

Required Technical Competencies

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excel and financial modeling skills; ERP and Hyperion systems experience preferred.
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite, including strong PowerPoint/ presentation skills.
  • Self-starter, creative thinker and advanced analytical problem solving skills
  • Demonstration of outstanding analytical and critical-thinking skills

Required Behavioral Competencies

  • Leadership - Leads by envisioning the future, engaging others, energizing people and enabling self and others to develop and execute plans to deliver strategy.
  • Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or develops appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
  • Energy - Consistently maintains high levels of activity or productivity; sustains long working hours when necessary; operates with vigor, effectiveness, and determination over extended periods of time.
  • Plans and organizes - Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure strategic long-term benefit.
  • Stress tolerance - Maintains a stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or ambiguity); handles stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization.
  • Work standards - Sets high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence.
  • Communication and Creativity - Creating images, tables, charts, graphs that tell the story and effectively communicate the logic and trends behind the financials.
  • Strategic Decision Making - Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal or vision after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values.

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Education

Required
  • Bachelors or better in Accounting or related field
Preferred
  • Masters or better in Business Administration or related field

Skills

Preferred
  • ADVANCED EXCEL
  • FINANCIAL MODELING
  • FORECASTING

Behaviors

Preferred
  • Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
  • Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
  • Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
  • Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them

Job Tags

Full time,

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