Senior Director, FP&A - AMC Segment

Overview

The Segment FP&A Leader (Senior Director) will partner closely with the Segment CFO and Segment leadership team to provide key analyses and recommendations on both short term and long-term strategic initiatives, operational improvement projects and other business priorities.

This role requires strong collaboration across the business as analyses, insights and recommendations are presented, including strong capability to influential leadership. This position will oversee four FP&A direct reports and will have a strong dotted line influence to the Divisional FP&A teams.

We are looking for someone who can: build strong relationships within the organization; build a strong team and engage at all levels in the organization; take advantage of data & analytics to provide business insight and decision support, drive improvements, efficiencies, and harmonization in planning, reporting and finance operations; interpret technical accounting on a variety of routine and non-routine matters; provide financial insight on external markets and M&A opportunities.

The role requires a "hands on" person who is detail oriented and results driven.

This role will have significant visibility to executive leadership throughout the Company and will maintain close working relationships with the Segment President and Divisional Presidents, Corporate CFO and VP of Corporate FP&A among others.

• Support Segment CFO in their responsibilities and be capable of stepping in and backing them up in all aspects of their duties where required
• Lead a direct/indirect team of finance professionals as well as provide strategic FP&A guidance and support across the Segment finance organization and operating teams
• Conducts and presents more complex financial and business analyses and research in areas such as Business Growth, Operations performance, Production Footprint analysis, Capital investment and rate of return, Working Capital opportunities and Profitability improvement
• Identify and engage in business process optimization opportunities ensuring data driven analysis and recommendation, be hands-on during implementation and ensure robust progress tracking
• Research and leverage technological development in financial processes including analytical modeling, process automation and AI, and drive process optimization for financial processes across the Segment
• Performs commercial analysis and research including market and competitor assessment for the preparation of long-range planning and annual operating plans
• Critically review Divisional submissions of long range and annual operating plans for consistency with underlying business and industry trends and known events
• Develop and review analyses and reporting for headquarter functions including, monthly financial analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and graphical summaries of financial performance.
• Provide key analyses and recommendations on strategic and other executive projects with ad-hoc reports that enable business assessments and support strategic decision making.
• Supports M&A related financial requirements by creating comprehensive ROI models.
• Drives consistency and continuous improvements in processes, and financial tools across the business including leadership for the One Stream and BI implementations.
• Coordinate monthly BU BUR meetings and segment POR deliverables to corporate along with participating in quarterly forecast and corporate commit meetings.
• Partners with Segment CFO and Segment leaders on the design and development of the framework that will guide effective operating reviews, annual operating plans, and long-range planning processes.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; advanced degree and/or a CPA is strongly preferred

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant and progressive accounting/finance experience that included global financial leadership and experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly establish a personal brand within the organization to drive cross functional collaboration and influence resources outside one's direct responsibility.
• Ability to…