Senior Director, FP&A NA OU Marketing Finance Lead

The Senior Director, DME-Brand Investment FP&A Lead – Service Delivery is the performance management leader for the North America Operating Unit (NAOU) FP&A (Financial Planning, & Analysis) Service Delivery team in relation to Marketing and Brand investments and is responsible for integrating marketing and brand results, forward-looking insights, and delivering business performance narratives. This role serves as the primary contact to the NAOU Brand-Investment Finance team
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As a member of the NAOU FP&A Service Delivery organization (~40 associates), this leader owns the end-to-end FP&A agenda for the DME Brand Investment
, including planning, forecasting, performance management.

Reporting directly to the Vice President, NAOU FP&A – Service Delivery Lead, the Senior Director oversees a team of approximately three associates and maintains accountability for financial accuracy, insight quality, governance, and compliance for DME spend and how business results flow into Global Brand Category reporting. This role also optimizes delivery through strong partnership with key stakeholders such as our Managed Service Provider (MSP) and the Reporting COE teams.

• FP&A agenda
  , integrating/consolidated results, outlooks, risks, and opportunities across DME spend as well as Global Brand Category Reporting.
• Lead the Annual Business Plan, Month-End Close, Rolling Estimates, and Risks & Opportunities processes, ensuring consistency, rigor, and executive-ready narratives (DME investment Global Brand Category).
• Consolidate and translate complex financial and operational performance into clear, actionable insights for the Brand Investment Finance team
  , highlighting key drivers, tradeoffs, and decision points.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the NAOU Brand Investment Finance team and other senior Finance and Business leaders, proactively shaping decisions with fact-based insights.
• Partner directly with the NAOU Brand Investment Finance team to pilot initiatives that advance financial performance and operational excellence for DME and Global Brand Category teams.

• Drive financial accuracy, transparency, and consistency across all DME and Global Brand Category FP&A deliverables, ensuring a single, trusted enterprise view of performance.
• Establish and enforce disciplined forecasting, reporting, and review routines aligned to corporate and global FP&A standards.
• Own performance management governance, ensuring strong controls, documentation, compliance, and accountability across all FP&A activities for DME and Global Brand Category.
• Act as the senior point of escalation for performance management issues, data discrepancies, or insight alignment challenges.

• Lead DME FP&A’s contribution to productivity and transformation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate DME FP&A processes, reallocating capacity from low-value activities to strategic analysis.
• Optimize the DME FP&A operating model with the MSP, including role clarity, service levels, and continuous improvement expectations.
• Sponsor change initiatives that strengthen NAOU’s enterprise DME FP&A capabilities and future-ready skill sets (including adopting global initiatives/standards).

• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing leadership team.
• Establish clear expectations, performance standards, and accountability across the DME organization.
• Build strong succession pipelines and invest in future FP&A DME and Brand-Investment leadership capabilities, including storytelling, analytics, and enterprise thinking.
• Foster a culture of partnership, curiosity, continuous improvement, feedback/recognition and results orientation.

• Serve as the primary FP&A interface to the NAOU Brand-Investment team for DME/Global Category performance, outlooks, and emerging risks or opportunities.
• Influence stakeholders through concise, compelling, and enterprise-oriented executive communications.
• Align Finance, Operations, and Corporate stakeholders around a…