Director, Corporate FP&A

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director, Corporate FP&A works with the VP, Finance Operations, CFO, and senior managers to increase the company's efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of financial plans. Support the VP, Finance Operations, in providing guidance for forecasts, budgetary decisions, and financial and strategic planning. Lead data governance process and financial reporting development and standardization.

Additional responsibilities include the finance partnership to the corporate functions. Partnering with the client groups, this role will set the strategic course for the business and define how the annual goals will be accomplished. They are responsible for budgeting, modeling, forecasting, and reporting on business/regional results that will be used in financial decision making. They will monitor actual financial performance, compare budget and forecast projections, analyze and interpret variances, identify countermeasures, and provide recommendations as needed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

PLANNING & FORECASTING: Develops, enhances, and maintains planning and budgeting processes. Continuously improves the reliability of planning and forecasting processes. Lead key processes for specific areas of planning and forecasting. Develops new models and tools. Drive and lead effective communication processes with key stakeholders and business partners to ensure that budgets and monthly/quarterly analyses are accurate, complete, and timely; implement corporate initiatives, including changes in reporting requirements.

Prepares financial reports including analysis and interpretation of financial position with respect to profits, trends, costs, and makes recommendations to the CFO, Management Team, and Board of Directors. Directs studies including presentation of findings and recommendations affecting the business' financial status including the exploration of financial impacts of future business opportunities.

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS: Provides accurate and timely financial analyses, communication, ongoing monitoring, and evaluation to the enterprise to aid in decision-making to improve financial performance. Designs, develops, and utilizes sophisticated financial models. Leads complex analyses for enterprise scale projects. Benchmarks and monitors financial targets and metrics against external data. Proactively finds opportunities to improve processes and provide ad-hoc analyses for senior management.

FINANCE PARTNER: Serve as a trusted finance business partner to senior leaders at an executive level for the corporate functions. Advises and steers business decisions regarding financial impact and overall business health. Build strong relationships with the clients' senior leadership and the rest of the team to act as a trusted financial advisor. Lead and prepare the annual financial budget, recurring forecast, and the long-range financial plan and recommend courses of action to achieve business team goals and to ensure profitable operations consistent with sound business management. Drive scenario analysis and pressure test assumptions for reasonableness. Challenge the leadership team on forecast revenue, cost, and working capital performance. Assess risks and opportunities versus annual targets.

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: Analyze business performance, create insights, and drive action to continuously improve the business. Create action plans and dashboards for business team and executive leadership. Develop, recommend, and implement business performance improvement initiatives to measurably enhance business profitability and working capital levels.

MASTER DATA AND REPORTING: Lead as a subject matter expert and governance leader on end-to-end plan to Forecast process, supporting financial planning, reporting and analytical processes, data, and solutions. Develop and standardize financial reports and master data entry.

TECHNOLOGY: Selecting, managing, and utilizing systems and tools to facilitate accurate and reliable knowledge capture, organization, tracking, and reporting of data. Super User - Completes more detailed maintenance. Provides guidance and backup. Makes decisions and sets improvement and business application strategies; keeps up to date on system technologies.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead a team of managers and analysts responsible for awards analysis, ad-hoc data report requests, department monthly financial analysis, commissions processing, and recurring data reports.
• Oversee the design, production, and maintenance of dashboards and reports related to areas such as production, planning, profitability, inventory, purchasing, and accounting.

COMPETENCIES:

• Provides business partnership to senior leaders and influences Leadership team (Functional / Team Leaders) within supported team.
• Master and thought leader in all financial disciplines.
• Significantly influences strategy; as part of the (business, regional, global function) leadership team contributes to the development of strategy.
• Accountable for leading functional processes and programs.
• Responsible for the results of a large, strategically important discipline in a large division, major region, or global discipline.
• Leads multidisciplinary projects or initiatives.
• Coach non-financial people. Mentor other financial associates.
• Work is primarily achieved by an individual, indirect leadership, or through project teams.
• Proactively identifies, defines, and solves the most complex problems that impact the management and direction of the business.
• Self-directed / Establishes day to day priorities. Ownership of execution of functional strategy within job area.
• Expert oral, written, and presentation skills to deliver effective, confident, and results-oriented communications and presentations.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or Economics, MBA a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A including exposure in some of the following roles: Operational finance experience, P&L accountability with a track record of achieving results, Financial Planning and Analysis, Sales Finance, Business Development and Strategy; within a larger manufacturing company.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Financial, Sales, and Business analytics / reporting required.
• Salesforce and NetSuite experience preferred.
• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Also requires the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, smartphones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and scanners.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Noble provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, or any other protected category in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Noble complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.