Financial Planning & Analysis, Sr Director

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Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Synopsys, provides advanced engineering simulation and digital mission solutions supporting U.S. national security, defense, space, and microelectronics programs. AGI operates where commercial technology innovation meets government mission requirements, with finance leadership playing a critical role in enabling compliant growth, disciplined execution, and operational resilience.

You are a strategic, business-focused finance executive who has led finance organizations where financial decisions directly affect national security customers, competitive positioning, operational resilience, and enterprise growth. You are comfortable functioning as a CFO for a mission-critical business while operating within a matrix organization to the parent company finance function and shared services teams.

You understand that finance in a defense and government contracting environment is not only about reporting results; it is about making deliberate choices on investment, pricing, forecasting, controls, cost structure, compliance, capital allocation, and risk. You know how to translate complex financial, contractual, and regulatory obligations into operationally sound business processes that enable leaders to move with confidence.

You have earned credibility with executive leaders, program teams, finance shared services, auditors, and parent company stakeholders by balancing speed with compliance, supporting growth while protecting enterprise assets, and preserving contractual integrity. You operate comfortably at both altitudes: advising the VP & GM and senior leadership on business strategy while also ensuring the financial operating cadence, controls, forecasts, and decision support are accurate, timely, and actionable.

• Function as the CFO-like finance leader for AGI, serving as the principal financial advisor to the VP & GM, AGI executive leadership team, and parent company finance stakeholders.
• Develop and execute the finance strategy for AGI, aligning financial planning, forecasting, reporting, controls, investment decisions, and operating rhythms with business priorities and government program requirements.
• Lead executive-level financial reviews, business performance discussions, long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, headcount planning, cost optimization, and investment tradeoffs.
• Translate financial results, risks, and opportunities into clear business recommendations for senior leaders, parent company finance, board/proxy governance participants, auditors, and business partners.

• Operate effectively in a matrix organization to the parent company finance function, partnering with corporate FP&A, controllership, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement, payroll, revenue, systems, internal audit, and shared services groups.
• Build strong operating mechanisms with parent company finance and shared services to ensure AGI gets scalable, compliant, and timely support while maintaining clear business ownership and AGI-specific decision accountability.
• Represent AGI requirements in parent company planning, budgeting, systems, controllership, policy, and reporting processes, ensuring finance delivery reflects the needs of a defense-oriented operating model.
• Partner with parent company finance leaders to maintain alignment on financial policies, controls, reporting, revenue recognition, internal audit expectations, and enterprise governance.

• Own AGI financial planning and analysis, including annual budget, long-range plan, rolling forecast, monthly business reviews, variance analysis, KPI reporting, scenario modeling, and executive dashboards.
• Develop driver-based financial models for revenue, bookings, ARR or recurring revenue metrics where applicable, program costs, labor utilization, headcount, margin, working capital, and cash flow.

• Provide business insights that improve P&L performance, pricing discipline, cost structure,…