Director of Strategic Finance & FP&A

Foreword Companies is a growing group of businesses serving the commercial construction and e-commerce industries, and we’re building something pretty special. We work hard, have fun, care genuinely about one another, and give people room to grow and make an impact. Our purpose (Glorify God, Grow People, Change Lives) isn’t just something written on a wall; it shapes how we do business and treat people.

We also offer some pretty great benefits, including free employee health insurance, company-paid life insurance, a 401(k) match, paid time off, and paid parental leave.

The Director of Strategic Finance & FP&A is a senior strategic finance leader and key partner to the Chief Financial Officer and executive leadership team, responsible for translating enterprise strategy into financially grounded plans, investment decisions, and performance actions across Foreword Companies. This role leads enterprise and long-range planning, scenario analysis, executive decision support, capital allocation, growth initiative evaluation, business-case development, M&A modeling, and pricing and profitability analysis.

The Director partners closely with the Corporate Controller for validated actuals, accounting assumptions, liquidity baselines, and the Controller-owned rolling forecast, and with BI & Automation for governed data models, dashboards, and scalable reporting. Through rigorous analysis and clear recommendations, this role helps leadership evaluate strategic opportunities, allocate resources, and make informed decisions that support sustainable enterprise growth and long-term value creation.

• Provide strategic finance leadership across enterprise planning, performance management, capital allocation, and executive decision support.
• Build repeatable FP&A and strategic finance processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Develop finance capability and talent as the strategic finance function grows, with the ability to expand into broader finance leadership responsibility.
• Partner across Accounting, Operations, Commercial, and BI & Automation while respecting clear ownership boundaries and required handoffs.
• Exhibit strong leadership behaviors aligned with the company’s Great 8 Leadership Core Competencies; consistently model sound judgment, accountability, collaboration, and professional conduct.
• Exhibit the company’s core values:
  Good Character, Fun, Above and Beyond, Genuinely Cares, and Passionate about Winning.

• Lead the annual budgeting and planning process, including balance sheet, cash flow, financing capacity, and strategic milestones.
• Develop long-range plans and scenario models that clearly document assumptions, ranges, risks, and financial implications.
• Establish a formal handoff from the Controller-owned rolling forecast into strategic planning and scenario work.

• Translate financial and operating performance into corrective actions with clear owners, timing, and quantified financial effects.
• Identify forward-looking risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to executive leadership.
• Launch and maintain an executive KPI scorecard and monthly business review package supported by BI-enabled automation.
• Partner with the Corporate Controller to establish governed definitions for margin, profitability, working capital, EBITDA, and cash.

• Evaluate strategic initiatives and capital requests for strategic fit, cash requirements, return, risk, capacity, NPV, ROIC, and payback.
• Support financing analysis, banking and lender-readiness activities, and executive evaluation of capital alternatives.
• Maintain transparent approval gates and post-investment tracking for…