Division Leader, FP&A

POSITION SUMMARY

As the Division FP&A Leader, you will serve as a strategic financial leader for our division, positioned on a clear succession path to the Division Finance Leader role. This newly created position offers both immediate leadership impact and long-term career advancement.

In this pivotal role, you'll lead a small team of FP&A specialists across multiple North American sites, coordinating critical financial processes including weekly forecast updates, monthly reporting cycles, and business unit reviews. You'll partner closely with the Finance Director, Power Management teams, and both Division and Segment Leadership to drive financial excellence throughout the organization.

We're seeking an intelligent, adaptable professional who can see the big picture while maintaining strong attention to detail. The ideal candidate will build strong cross-functional relationships, engage effectively at all levels of the organization, and leverage data analytics to provide meaningful business insights and decision support. Your ability to influence others through well-presented analyses and recommendations will be critical to your success.

This position requires a flexible, hands-on approach with a high sense of urgency to meet business demands while staying organized and meeting deadlines. You'll have opportunities to drive improvements and efficiencies across planning, reporting, and finance operations while gaining high visibility with senior leadership across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Partner with the business leadership to implement robust Commercial Operations reporting, analytics performance by channel, customer insights and financial reporting practices to drive accountability and execution.

· Partner with the business leadership to enhance the visibility of the current Supply Chain and Materials Management processes and financial reporting practices to drive accountability and execution. Identify and correct data irregularities while proposing and implementing reporting enhancements.

· In partnership with the Divisional finance teams, lead review of Daily KPI’s and comprehensive analyses of P&L expense management. Harmonize and support policy development for price / cost reporting, orders, backlog, and other key statistical metrics and KPI’s. Identify areas for improvement and develop action plans to enhance metrics.

· Perform analysis and research including market and competitor assessment for the preparation of long-range planning, operating reviews, annual operating plans, quarterly Earnings content and Board of Directors content for the Division.

· Consolidate forecasts and analyze trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, general business conditions, profitability and other related areas.

· Conceptualize, design and iteratively build data-driven analytical models.

· Lead a small team of finance professionals as well as provide strategic FP&A guidance and support across the Division finance organization and operating teams.

· Conduct analyses and reporting for headquarters functions including, monthly financial analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and graphical summaries of financial performance.

· Provide key analyses and recommendations on strategic and other executive projects.

· Provide ad-hoc reports for decision-making and business assessments at a glance.

· Routinely and proactively conduct detailed financial analysis (minimize surprises). Report on root causes, remediation plans, and updated status.

· Drive consistency and continuous improvements in processes and financial tools across the business

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications: