Ascension Search Partners
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We are seeking a talented, passionate, and highly motivated leader in this role to join the management team as the Director of FP&A. Reporting to CFO, the Director of FP&A, will serve as a finance lead supporting all aspects of The Company to provide guidance for financial planning, analysis, and forecasting. You will work closely with senior management to track and measure financial and operating performance by assisting with the formulation of both the short-term and long-term plans. The successful candidate will be a hands-on, proactive influential leader who will quickly learn and gain a thorough understanding of company operations, develop and implement methods to drive business intelligence and continue Company’s track record of both organic and inorganic growth.

 

The Director of FP&A will analyze the company’s financial performance, procedures, infrastructure, and data intelligence to drive value across the organization, make recommendations to enhance enterprise value, drive profitability, growth, market insights, and cost savings to enhance company performance. The individual will also help drive financial system infrastructure, including systems, business intelligence tools, financial reporting and analysis, and key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as play a pivotal role in M&A pipeline maintenance including building financial models and related material and presentations, driving the deal diligence process and execution with consultants, QoE, valuation experts, legal, bankers, and lenders, and post-close integration activities.

 

Primary Duties:

• Design, create, and maintain rolling financial forecasts for income statements, balance sheet, and cash flow statements

• Lead, coordinate, and manage the Company’s overall annual budgeting process

• Partner cross functional departments such as operations, sales, finance, and accounting to extract information and analyze it for the Company’s benefit

• Assist Accounting with variance analysis on performance to operating plan

• Manage the tracking of meaningful metrics and additional KPI metrics for Company

• Develop, analyze, and report on various trend analysis within customer, revenue, partner, and product mix

• Create and manage customer analytics, including but not limited to cohort analysis, attribute analysis, pricing, and cost analysis

• Work closely with CFO to develop modeling for scenario analysis

• Preparation of board and investor materials

• Benchmark performance of Company to industry peers and competitors

• Utilize analysis tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance

• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department’s performance and results

• Review operations and recommend new productivity or cost saving initiatives

• Prepare business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions

• Communicate results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations

• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability

• Review existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts • Assist with managing and maintaining banking and vendor relationships, including covenant reporting

• Engage in ad hoc projects and special projects as required or requested

 

Educational/Experience Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field of equivalent experience

• 5+ years in a big consulting firm, private equity or investment banking OR 7+ years in high growth manufacturing, industrials, or building products, managing full cycle FP&A

• Complex problem solving, analytical and financial modeling skills - ability to identify the root cause of issues, propose possible solutions or improvements and influence ultimate decision.

• Significant analytical skillset, including the utilization of BI and reporting tools

• Strong quantitative abilities

• Ability to work with, communicate, and have influence with all organization levels, including Executive level management

• Demonstrates strong critical thinking and financial acumen

• Highly analytical with an innate curiosity

• Experience with presenting and explaining financial information to financial and non-finance professionals.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize appropriately to meet competing deadlines.

• Experience working in ERP, CRM, and Business Intelligence software

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint

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