Director, FP&A

Job Description

ABOUT SINCH

Sinch is pioneering the way the world communicates. More than 150,000 businesses-including Google, Uber, Paypal, Visa, Tinder, and many others-rely on Sinch’s Customer Communications Cloud to power engaging customer experiences through mobile messaging, voice, and email.

Whether you need to verify users or craft omnichannel campaigns, Sinch makes it easy. Our AI-infused Super Network, APIs, and applications ensure you can connect with your customers reliably and securely, at every step of their journey.

At Sinch we “Dream Big”, “Win Together”, “Keep it simple”, and “Make it Happen”. These values are our foundation!

DESCRIPTION

The Director, Financial Planning and Analysis will play a critical role in the company, leading the management reporting function and driving business analysis and insight for the Sinch’s North America region. The role will report directly to the Americas Region CFO. This person will work closely with the senior management team and other business and finance leaders and hold a highly visible position within the Company.

You will be primarily responsible for:

• Building a consistent framework for analyzing and reporting on the growth, profitability and returns of the North America business.
• Delivering frequent and time sensitive ad hoc analyses.
• Reporting on and presenting operational and financial results to senior management team and other business leaders.
• Creating and maintaining short-term and long-range business forecasts.
• Driving the annual budget process for the North America region.
• Managing and developing North America FP&A team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and collaboration.

The ideal candidate must be driven by a high degree of intellectual curiosity, have exceptional organizational capabilities, be highly motivated to influence and push for positive change through their work, have a strong grounding in complex and detailed financial modeling, and have excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in interacting with senior executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Lead the modeling and forecasting function for the North America region through collaborations with business owners and executive management to establish the region's financial plans for new and existing businesses.
• Prepare and present monthly and quarterly operational and financial reporting to senior management, including assisting in preparation of quarterly board of directors’ material and earnings report.
• Analyze and evaluate the strategic and budgetary impact of new business opportunities including new service offerings.
• Analyze and monitor key financial trends and critical metrics for the region for internal reporting to the leadership team to support business decisions, understanding key variances and business drivers.
• Analyze complex data to deliver actionable information for recommendations to senior management. Build, evaluate, and improve global systems, methods, and databases which support the business divisions.
• Assist in the due diligence process on M&A and financing transactions including working with external legal, accounting and investment banking advisors.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND / WORK EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting with advanced degree and/or certifications (MBA, CFA or CPA) required.
• Excellent business modeling and analytical skills; superior understanding of business drivers; and strong capabilities in translating business terms into financial models.
• 10 plus years of experience in FP&A, Public Accounting, investment banking or private equity
• Strong knowledge of accounting concepts as they relate to financial modeling and analysis.
• In-depth practical knowledge and understanding of financial analysis techniques and methodologies, financial and business planning, and budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Ability to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to perform analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information. Extensive financial modeling experience required.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative communication skills with well-developed presentation skills.
• Ability to handle competing priorities…