Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through the No Kid Hungry campaign, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America – we’re on our way to making that a reality and we want you to join us.

We’re bold, creative, always open to new ideas, and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d like you to consider becoming part of our team.

The position is preferably based in Washington, D.C.; but could be fully remote for the right candidate. The position offers a salary range of $120k-$135k. Exact compensation within the stated salary range may vary based on skills, experience, internal equity, and geographical location.

• Oversee work of direct reports assigned to partner with department business leaders and lend financial support by way of performing financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Model and encourage continuous learning and professional development for FP&A team, including cultivating relationships across the organization.

• Develop and communicate the process and timeline for annual budgets, quarterly financial forecasts, and long‑term financial plans designed to achieve the strategic objectives identified by the leadership team; maintain processes for ongoing adjustments to the working budget and labor allocation.
• Review budgets and forecasts developed by FP&A team to ensure adherence to budgetary guidelines and identify areas for cost optimization.

• Analyze financial performance against budget and forecast, identify financial trends or threats, and provide actionable recommendations and insights to the Chief Financial Officer, highlighting potential implications for key performance indicators.
• Maintain cash flow projections based on the current year forecast; highlight implications of working budget changes to liquidity and other financial KPIs.
• Provide financial modeling and analysis to the Chief Financial Officer and Human Resources to develop and monitor the compensation and benefits budget, including impact of hires, promotions, vacancies, benefit changes, and labor allocation.
• Prepare ad‑hoc financial reports and analysis as needed to support Executive Team decision making as requested by the Chief Financial Officer.

• Work with Information Technology to implement organization‑wide reporting and dashboards for financial information.
• Identify improvements to organizational level financial planning processes and systems to enhance management decision‑making and financial reporting.
• Identify process improvement opportunities across the entire organization.

• Cross‑train and backfill for other Financial Planning & Analysis team members.
• Maintain procedures, training materials, and templates needed for completion of duties and responsibilities above.
• Participate in Finance team priority projects as assigned.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Supervision:
This position will directly supervise the organization’s Financial Planning & Analysis team and also partner with the Accounting and Information Technology team.

The position requires an experienced financial professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and high‑growth organizational environment. Candidates are required to be highly analytical and be strong, effective communicators. Ideal candidates will have a track record of superior financial and statistical analysis and developing/delivering sound financial and business recommendations based on these analyses. The individual must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and must be able to work effectively across organizational and functional boundaries.

The individual must be highly organized and…