Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Senior Director, FP&A leads corporate financial planning and analysis activities across Westlake, with responsibility for enterprise-level FP&A deliverables and for partnering with segment and business unit finance teams (e.g., Performance & Essential Materials and Housing & Infrastructure Products segments). The incumbent serves as a key strategic finance leader and business partner to executive leadership, shaping Westlake’s financial plans in support of its long-term strategy and capital deployment priorities.

This role is accountable for driving an integrated, disciplined budgeting and target-setting process across the enterprise. The Senior Director, FP&A works closely with segment and business unit leaders to translate strategic and operational plans into clear financial targets, challenge underlying assumptions, and establish robust cost and productivity objectives. Through enhanced budget frameworks, standardized methodologies, and transparent performance dashboards, the incumbent increases ownership and accountability for results, improves cost visibility and accountability, and enables proactive cost management and margin optimization.

The Senior Director, FP&A also leads the development and continuous improvement of Westlake’s enterprise forecasting capabilities. This includes designing and refining driver-based forecasting models, coordinating regular forecast cycles with segment and business unit finance teams, identifying and implementing technological solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the FP&A process, and implementing scenario and sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of market conditions, commodity price movements, and operational initiatives on earnings and cash flow.

The incumbent plays a central role in supporting more accurate, insight-driven earnings guidance by ensuring forecasts are analytically rigorous, aligned with business realities, and effectively synthesized for the Executive Management team and other key stakeholders. Strong communication and collaboration skills are necessary.

• Lead the preparation, and presentation when required, of financial reports, executive‑level presentations, and related analysis for Senior Management and the Board of Directors for periodic Board meetings, monthly and quarterly business reviews, and other senior leadership forums.
• Work across senior financial leadership including the Segment CFOs and Business Unit Finance Directors to standardize processes, financial information, and associated reporting and KPI metrics to ensure a coherent view of performance analytics. performance drivers. and insight.
• Develop and maintain a robust KPI framework and executive dashboards that tightly link operational metrics to financial outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Synthesize complex financial, operational, and market information into clear insights and recommendations supporting corporate strategy and capital allocation decisions.
• Support the CFO, CEO, and other members of the executive team in capital allocation decisions, including evaluation and prioritization of capital projects, strategic investments and productivity initiatives.
• Serve as a primary FP&A contact for the CEO, CFO, CAO, Treasurer and segment leadership on planning, forecasting and performance topics.
• Identify, assess and implement technological tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the FP&A function in collaboration with other stakeholders such as the Sr. Director of Business Transformation, CAO, and Segment CFOs. Identify and utilize Artificial Intelligence and other digital tools in value-added ways.
• Lead the development of short- and long-range strategic plans at the corporate level,…