Finance - Director of FP

The Director of Finance (FP&A) is a senior finance leader responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, business intelligence, profitability analysis, and decision support for a $2.5+ billion Verizon Authorized Retailer. This position partners closely with executive leadership, operations, sales, accounting, treasury, and field leadership to provide accurate financial insight, actionable reporting, and strategic recommendations.

The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in FP&A, financial modeling, retail analytics, and data management. This individual must demonstrate the ability to extract, reconcile, and interpret complex data from multiple systems, translate operating performance into financial outcomes, and develop high-integrity forecasts and business models that support informed decision‑making and long‑term growth.

The Director leads the FP&A function, supports enterprise planning processes, develops performance reporting and KPI frameworks, and serves as a trusted business partner across the organization.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, long‑range planning, and performance management processes.
• Develop and maintain financial models supporting profitability, labor planning, liquidity forecasting, capital allocation, acquisitions, and strategic initiatives.
• Produce executive reporting packages and present financial results, trends, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, lenders, and ownership.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast while driving accountability throughout the organization.
• Perform scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling to support strategic decision‑making.

• Demonstrate expert ability to tactically pull data from multiple systems and sources, including financial systems, operational databases, carrier reporting, POS platforms, inventory systems, payroll systems, and business intelligence tools.
• Validate relationships across operational and financial data sources including sales, commissions, payroll, inventory, traffic, customer performance metrics, and general ledger systems to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.
• Build and maintain analytical models and reporting dashboards.
• Identify data anomalies, reconciliation issues, and process breakdowns.
• Establish and maintain a trusted "single source of truth."

• Partner with operations and field leadership to evaluate store performance, labor productivity, compensation programs, sales effectiveness, and profitability initiatives.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations supporting new store investments, remediation plans, acquisitions, transfers, and strategic business decisions.
• Translate operational activity into actionable financial insights and communicate findings to leadership in a clear, concise manner.

• Establish rigorous standards for financial and operational reporting accuracy.
• Improve reporting processes, close support, data governance, and reconciliation procedures.
• Lead efforts to automate recurring reporting and reduce dependence on manual workarounds while preserving data integrity.
• Create repeatable and auditable processes for forecast updates, management reporting, KPI tracking, and store‑level financial review.
• Ensure key analyses and models are transparent, logically structured, and capable of standing up to executive, lender, audit, or transaction scrutiny.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A and business analytics team.
• Establish a culture of accountability, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, and business partnership.
• Coach team members on financial analysis, forecasting, storytelling, and executive communication.

• BS or BA in Finance (CPA or MBA…