Director, Cost & Financial Planning

The Director, Cost & Financial Planning is responsible for analyzing trends and metrics, and designing and executing project plans to convert analysis to action plans and solutions. The position will also be responsible for developing timely, accurate, and actionable data and analysis to help guide the business.

General Responsibilities

• Directs cost and financial planning and analysis activities to identify risks and opportunities and contribute to the achievement of the organization's short and long-term financial goals

• Develop, implement and maintain an effective planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of the Company's portfolio of businesses

• Routinely communicate business unit and company consolidated financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics

• Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications

• Lead scenario modeling efforts for the development and growth of the portfolio

• Participate as a key thought leader of the global finance team, influencing decision making, identifying finance priorities, managing directly and indirectly - finance staff in multiple locations

• Influence the accuracy and effectiveness of the corporate accounting consolidation and closing process and treasury operations through analytical review and trend analysis

• Develop and execute processes to allow for routine analytical reviews of company financial and operational performance, leveraging business unit analytical resources and tools

• Support the strategic business planning process

• Directs, coaches, and develops a team of financial professionals to ensure financial planning and analysis projects are conducted credibly and that recommendations and reports are accurate and timely

Experience / Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.

• Ability to lead, coach, and develop team members

• Holds self and others accountable to achieving goals and standards

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to handle multiple competing tasks and demands

• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation

• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results

• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity

• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers

• Demonstrated experience partnering with strategic sourcing, category management, and supply chain leadership; direct experience supporting procurement, supply chain or operations in manufacturing equipment

• Experience in global and/or multi-site manufacturing organizations

Strong capability in:

• Large data set analysis (spend, pricing, usage)

• Building dashboards for procurement KPIs

• Advanced Excel and/or BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)

Proven experience in:

• Direct material cost management (raw materials, components, subassemblies)

• Spend analytics and cost transparency by category, supplier, and commodity

• Price variance, purchase price variance (PPV), and inflation tracking

• Experience supporting cost reduction programs, including:

• Strategic sourcing initiatives

• Supplier negotiations and should-cost models

• Value engineering / VA-VE programs

Experience developing and validating sourcing business cases, make vs buy analysis, supplier transitions and dual-sourcing financial models

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