Director of FP&A

Location: Grand Prairie / Fort Worth, Texas
Company: J.C. Pace Ltd.

J.C. Pace Ltd. is seeking an experienced Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and management reporting supporting Traders Village and other Pace Co businesses as assigned.

This is a hands‑on FP&A leadership role for someone who wants to understand how a business actually works—not simply report what happened after the fact. The Director will strengthen and advance the FP&A function by improving processes, reporting, analytical tools, and financial visibility as business needs evolve.

Working closely with senior financial and operating leadership, the Director will identify business drivers, test assumptions, evaluate trends, risks, and opportunities, and translate operating activity into meaningful financial insight and better decision‑making.

We are looking for someone who is analytically strong, intellectually curious, self‑directed, and comfortable asking the next question when the numbers do not tell the whole story. The successful candidate will take ownership of the FP&A function and bring the structure, discipline, and initiative needed to continue developing its capabilities.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of J.C. Pace Ltd., the Director of FP&A serves as a financial business partner to operating leadership, with primary responsibility for FP&A activities supporting Traders Village and additional Pace Co entities as assigned.

The position coordinates budgeting and forecasting, develops and maintains financial models, analyzes operating and financial performance, supports KPI development and reporting, and provides clear, actionable analysis for management decision‑making.

Success in this role requires more than technical financial ability. The Director must develop a strong understanding of the businesses being supported while maintaining the analytical independence and objectivity necessary to evaluate results and constructively challenge assumptions.

• Lead and coordinate annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long‑range financial planning processes.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve financial models incorporating actual results, historical trends, seasonality, operating initiatives, and business assumptions.
• Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and other relevant benchmarks.
• Identify and quantify significant revenue, expense, profitability, and operating variances.
• Work directly with operating leaders to understand the business causes behind financial results and changes in outlook.
• Evaluate forecast assumptions, operating trends, risks, and opportunities and constructively challenge assumptions when supported by analysis.
• Develop scenario models and financial analyses to evaluate strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, promotions, capital investments, and other business opportunities.
• Identify key business drivers and connect operating activity to revenue, profitability, EBITDA, cash flow, and other financial outcomes.
• Develop and maintain KPI definitions, measurement methodologies, dashboards, and recurring performance reporting.
• Prepare financial analysis and reporting supporting senior management and Board presentations.
• Communicate the financial story behind business performance—what happened, why it happened, its financial impact, and what it may mean going forward.
• Partner with Accounting and the Controller to ensure FP&A reporting is reconciled to accurate financial results.
• Improve FP&A tools, models, reporting processes, data structures, dashboards, and…