Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Category
:
Finance

Requisition Number
: DIREC
002896

• Posted :
  October 1, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

Showing 1 location

Southfield, MI, USA

Summary of Position

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis leads Guardian Alarm’s FP&A function and is responsible for enterprise budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, financial analysis, performance measurement, and strategic decision support. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role partners closely with executive leadership, business leaders, and Finance partners to translate financial and operational data into clear insights, recommendations, and forward-looking analysis that support business performance and growth.

The Director of FP&A leads the development and preparation of financial content used in Executive Leadership Team, Board of Directors, lender, and investor reporting and plays an important role in acquisition analysis, financial due diligence, integration planning, and post-acquisition performance measurement. This position also leads and develops the FP&A team while continuously improving planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytical capabilities across the organization.

• Lead Guardian’s annual budgeting process, periodic forecasting activities, and long-range financial planning.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve financial models used for budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, and strategic decision-making.
• Monitor financial and operational performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and strategic objectives.
• Identify material variances, emerging trends, risks, and opportunities and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate financial performance, resource allocation, investment priorities, and operating assumptions.
• Support the CFO and executive leadership in development of long-range business plans and financial strategies.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of business performance and proactively identify areas requiring management attention.

• Lead the preparation of monthly and periodic management reporting packages, KPI dashboards, scorecards, variance analyses, and business-performance reporting.
• Analyze financial and operational results and translate data into clear insights regarding performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Develop and maintain meaningful financial and operational KPIs that support organizational decision-making.
• Ensure management reporting is accurate, timely, consistent, and appropriately tailored to the intended audience.
• Perform and oversee ad hoc financial analyses supporting operational, strategic, and executive decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting quality, relevance, automation, and efficiency.
• Partner with leaders across the organization to strengthen financial understanding and accountability for business performance.
• Lead the development and preparation of financial content, forecasts, KPIs, performance analysis, and supporting schedules used in Executive Leadership Team, Board of Directors, lender, and investor reporting.
• Prepare financial commentary, variance explanations, trend analysis, performance summaries, and other supporting materials.
• Partner with the CFO to develop clear, accurate, and decision-useful financial information for presentation to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure financial information included in recurring Board and stakeholder reporting is accurate, complete, timely, and appropriately supported.
• Coordinate with Accounting and other Finance partners to ensure consistency between management reporting and…