Senior Director, Financial Planning

Who We Are:

Our vision is to grant the wish of every eligible child. Through our mission, we are uniting communities to grant life-changing wishes. As the world's largest wish-granting organization, we strive to create a sense of community and an environment where we warmly embrace our wish families, volunteers, and colleagues.

Joining Make-A-Wish means becoming part of a mission that believes in the power of a wish.

Location:

Remote positions are open to applicants based anywhere in the continental U.S. Hybrid positions are open to applicants based in the Phoenix, Arizona area.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We do not sponsor employment visas or other immigration processes to attain or maintain employment eligibility.

The Role:

The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis manages all aspects of internal management reporting, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and results analysis. This role develops timely, comprehensive, and clear messaging of financial results to explain our story and drive actions to move results. This position partners closely with functional leaders and manages the build-up of all financial plans including Budget, Forecasts and Multi-Year Strategies. Working closely with the CFO, the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis will develop financial projections to support the Organization's strategic plans.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Drive a robust annual budgeting process for the Make-A-Wish national office, including target setting, model/template creation, partnership with key constituents and formalization of final budget reviews.
• Responsible for National and Enterprise financial reporting and present financial data to AFC committee and Board reviews. Drives preparation of Monthly/Quarterly Executive Leadership Team and Board deck. Review income statements, balance sheets and cash flows to assist with trend analysis and identification of operational risks and/or opportunities.
• Partner with all National business functions. Collect, interpret, and model retrospective and prospective data to assist in business direction and decision-making.
• Development and management of long-range financial planning models to run in parallel to the strategic planning cadence.
• Play key role in development and implementation of the financial planning tool for the enterprise.
• Own financial forecast process, including partnering with all functions to develop variance analyses and forward-looking driver-based outlooks, as well as creating forecast rollup, review, and approval processes.
• Provides support and build business cases on key decisions for headcount investments and resource deployment.
• Lead and manage members of the FP&A team. Sets priorities, remove obstacles for delivering on objectives, and ensures team is focused on providing value-added support that helps deliver strong financial performance.
• Lead and own holistic financial reporting strategy and execution, including monthly performance reporting, dashboard creation, and action-oriented communication to departments.
• Execute on various other analytic projects as assigned to provide decision support for key trends in performance.
• Play a role in financial project assessment as part of our project management intake process.
• Partner with key functions to help co-create driver-based ROI and cost-benefit assessments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required with an emphasis in Finance or Business / MBA Preferred
• 12 or more years of total experience with 7 or more years of demonstrated success in a Financial Planning & Analysis role that includes forecasting, planning, and analysis responsibilities
• 5 or more years of People Leadership experience.
• Experience in accounting and/or in a non-profit environment
• Experience with NetSuite financial application
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerBI
• Ability to package key analyses and reporting components and to communicate to key partners in an easy to understand but action-oriented manner
• Demonstrated ability to translate financial data into dynamic analysis
• High standards of accuracy and precision with strong organizational skills
• Articulate, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Supervisory and management experience, to include performance management

Working Environment

• Ability to thrive in a remote environment
• Some travel required
• May require work outside a traditional Monday – Friday work week, and outside normal business hours.

What We Offer:

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit package, effective day 1: Medical, Vision*, Dental*, Wellness
• Competitive compensation with annual incentive potential
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account Options
• Health Reimbursement Account fully funded by Make-A-Wish America
• Short Term Disability*, Long Term Disability* and Life Insurance
• Additional Insurance Plans: Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance through Figo
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with 5% match after one year of service
• Eligibility for student loan forgiveness through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• The organization will send a laptop, 24" monitor, and a docking station/adaptor to new hires

Time Off

• Up to 15 PTO days
• 10 Sick Days
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 2 Volunteer Days after one year of service
• 2 Personal Days accrued annually
• Parental Leave

Also...

• Employee Awards and Recognition Programs
• Individual and Leadership Development

• Discounts and special offers for theme parks, events, hotels, concerts, and movie tickets

• Monthly premiums paid for the employee for vision, dental, and short/long term disability.