VP Financial Planning & Analysis

The Freeman Company is a global leader in events, on a mission to redefine live for a new era. With a data-driven approach and the industry’s largest network of experts, The Freeman Company's insights shape exhibitions, exhibits, and events that drive audiences to action. The integrated full-service solutions leverage a 99-year legacy in event management as well as new technologies to deliver moments that matter.

Freeman Company is seeking a Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to serve as a strategic finance leader within the FP&A organization. Reporting to the SVP, FP&A, this individual will lead the Corporate FP&A team and partner closely with the FP&A business partners embedded across the individual lines of business. The role is responsible for the consolidation of monthly financial results, ownership of the annual operating budget, implementation of a rolling forecast, and integrated three-statement modeling with a particular focus on cash and working capital.

The VP, Corporate FP&A will collaborate closely with line-of-business FP&A partners, accounting, treasury, tax, and operational leaders to drive performance management, financial discipline, and capital allocation decisions across the enterprise. The role will also play a critical part in the ongoing transformation of Freeman’s financial systems and processes, modernizing planning capabilities to scale with the business. This role is eligible to work a hybrid schedule based out of our Headquarters in Dallas, TX.

Consolidation & Monthly Financial Reporting

• Lead the consolidation of monthly financial results across all business units, geographies, and legal entities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency with accounting close.
• Own the monthly executive reporting package, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs, and variance commentary delivered to the CFO, CEO, and Board.
• Partner with the Controller’s organization to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory results, and to drive a faster, more insightful close-to-report cyclec

Annual Budget

• Own the end-to-end annual operating budget process, including calendar, templates, guidelines, target setting, and consolidation, culminating in Board-approved financial plans.
• Drive top-down and bottoms-up alignment with business units, ensuring plans are appropriately stretched, achievable, and tied to operational drivers.
• Partner with the SVP, FP&A and line-of-business FP&A leaders to translate corporate strategy and targets into actionable business unit budgets.

Rolling Forecast & Performance Management

• Design and implement a rolling forecast process across revenue, margin, operating expenses, working capital, and cash, replacing or augmenting the traditional periodic forecast cadence.
• Establish governance, cadence, templates, and driver-based models that connect operational performance to financial outcomes and enable continuous reforecasting.
• Build a culture of forecast accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement in partnership with line-of-business FP&A leaders.
• Deliver clear, decision-ready analyses of business performance, risks and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to executive leadership.

Three-Statement Modeling, Cash & Working Capital

• Own integrated three-statement financial modeling (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) at the consolidated and business unit level.
• Lead enterprise cash forecasting and working capital management, partnering with Treasury to optimize liquidity, debt capacity, and capital deployment.
• Support strategic initiatives including M&A, refinancing, and capital structure decisions with rigorous quantitative analysis.
• Lead the implementation of financial systems and transformation initiatives, including EPM/CPM platforms (e.g., Anaplan, One Stream, Oracle EPM, Workday Adaptive), ERP integration, and reporting tools.
• Modernize planning, forecasting, and reporting processes by leveraging data, automation, AI, and analytics to reduce manual effort and improve speed-to-insight.
• Champion standardization of charts of accounts, hierarchies, and management reporting structures across…