Director, FP&A

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Reports To : Chief Financial Officer

Location : Vernon Hills, IL

FLSA Status : Exempt

Position Summary :

The Director, FP&A is responsible for driving financial planning, management reporting, and corporate analytics. This role partners across the organization to understand business drivers and translate them into budgets, forecasts, and insights that guide critical strategic decisions. A key focus will be enabling leaders to leverage analysis to identify growth levers, such as volume, pricing, and profitability. The Director will also play a central role in the company’s acquisition activities, from due diligence through integration and synergy realization, ensuring that financial insights support sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the FP&A team, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis.
• Partner with business unit leaders to understand performance drivers, evaluate opportunities, and guide resource allocation to achieve growth and profitability goals.
• Manage the company’s financial forecast model, providing visibility into performance trends and identifying areas for improvement.
• Direct the annual budgeting process, collaborating with functional and regional leaders to align plans with company strategy.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly reporting packages with variance analysis, key metrics, and business insights for executive leadership and the Board.
• Support M&A integration efforts, focusing on financial modeling, performance tracking, and synergy realization.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, pricing strategies, and new business opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment on financial results, reporting timelines, and accuracy.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CFO and executive leadership, providing data-driven recommendations to support decision-making.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing FP&A team focused on excellence, collaboration, and growth.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

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This position has not been approved for Relocation Assistance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities associated with it.