Director of financial planning

Imagine yourself…

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.
• Collaborating with a bright, diverse, global team.
• Joining a colorful company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future ahead.

It’s all possible with a role at X-Rite Pantone, the global leaders in color science and technology.

X-Rite Pantone, a Veralto company, provides complete end-to-end color management solutions for clients in every industry where color matters. At X-Rite Pantone, you’ll deftly blend the art and science of color to help customers inspire, select, measure, formulate, communicate and match color so that users get color right the first time, every time. And along the way, you’ll build a vibrant career through rich skill-building opportunities, on-the-job learning, and coaching and training that supports your continued development and growth.

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of X-Rite Pantone. As Director, FP&A, you’ll lead a talented team of analysts and serve as a strategic business partner to our leadership team. Your insights and analytics will drive decisions that enhance our financial performance and uncover opportunities for operational improvement.

In this role, you’ll develop and execute both short-term and long-term financial plans, optimizing our cost structure and guiding organizational investments. You’ll collaborate across the company to deliver actionable insights, streamline global finance processes, and champion improvements in systems and reporting. Your leadership will be key in driving growth, expanding margins, and managing working capital to support our continued success.

This position is part of the Finance & Accounting team, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will be hybrid .

We offer:

• 14 Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust
• Ongoing investment in your career through dedicated training, on-the-job development, and coaching
• Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Lead the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes, set calendar actions, and related activities for the group.
• Generate monthly forecast and business review decks with qualitative comments and insights on business performance drivers, highlighting key takeaways and key bullet points on story of business performance.
• Partner with global functional area owners to forecast future trends, capitalize on opportunities, and mitigate financial risks.
• Maintain focus on growth and appropriate cost structure, challenge the status quo.
• Own the optimization and standardization of our financial modelling process.

Reporting and Analytics

• Lead the monthly consolidation process and the preparation of submission of reporting packages (statistics and Key Performance Indicators), perform insightful analytics, and variances and trends.
• Coordinate the reporting of the global financial results for the business and related qualitative commentary.
• Run monthly OPEX reviews with global functional area owners on trends and variances, identify cost savings and organizational optimization opportunities.
• Working Capital Analysis and management

Strategy

• Lead and develop the FP&A team and drive alignment and communication with the broader Finance organization.
• Challenge existing processes, systems and reports (output), identify simplification opportunities, and implement necessary changes to create a best-in-class FP&A structure.
• Partner with the organization to drive process standardization and continuous improvement across the group.
• Develop, implement, and sustain standard work on policies and procedures for financial closing, analysis and reporting.
• Support Commercial VP for financial analysis and reporting and work with product management team on creating product business plans for new products, creating return on investment model, and evaluating results against plan, product pricing and product positioning.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• 10+ years of finance experience with minimum of 5 years of experience in strategic business planning, financial analysis, and reporting
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of professional level direct reports
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modelling and presenting data driven insights to management.
• Proven ability to drive alignment and trade-off decisions across diverse organizational functions
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10%

Preferred

• CPA/MBA is highly desirable
• Experience in implementation of financial reporting and consolidation systems
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Alteryx, Power BI, financial modelling, and reporting
• Experience working with Oracle and OneStream

X-Rite Pantone is proud to part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of nearly 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility : where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $170,000 - $185,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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