Sr Director Financial Analysis

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The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis is the senior FP&A leader for the SETT business unit, reporting to the VP Finance Business Partner. You will own the end-to-end planning and forecasting process, lead the SETT FP&A team, and drive the reporting, analytics, and technology work that makes financial planning credible and useful to the business.

This role is the operational execution engine of the SETT finance function — enabling the VP Finance Business Partner to focus on strategic business partnership with SETT leadership by ensuring the processes, models, and team performance that produce reliable financial intelligence are running well.

You will work across two technology environments — Workday and People Soft — while building toward the next phase of Kelly's planning platform evolution. You will bring both the analytical depth to explain what the numbers mean and the change management capability to improve how they get built.

• Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly outlooks for assigned SETT segments
• Own forecast inputs, model integrity, variance analysis, and cycle delivery
• Establish and enhance dynamic scenario planning models that leverage real-time data and reflect how the business operates
• Engage segment leaders as active participants in the planning process — not just recipients of output
• Monitor pipeline activity, revenue performance, cost trends, and other key inputs to maintain forecast accuracy and accountability

• Oversee close alignment with the Record to Report team; ensure month-end results and analysis are delivered accurately and on time
• Develop and maintain reporting on critical KPIs, competitor performance, client and pipeline analytics, and other decision-relevant metrics
• Drive the monthly operations and scorecard review process; ensure action planning follows material variances
• Support investment decision-making and performance reporting across distribution channels, specialty solutions, and geographies
• Deliver financial analysis that helps segment leaders understand their business — not just their budget

• Serve as the SETT FP&A lead for Workday Financial Management — owning data integrity, process continuity, and reporting accuracy across both Workday and People Soft environments
• Drive AI adoption within SETT FP&A workflows — identifying opportunities to automate, streamline, and improve the quality of financial analysis through AI tools
• Assess current FP&A processes across all five SETT segments and lead standardization where inconsistency creates risk or inefficiency
• Build and sustain process documentation so institutional knowledge is distributed across the team, not concentrated in any one person
• Bring Workday Adaptive Planning experience to position SETT for the next phase of the planning platform migration
• Partner with Finance Transformation and IT on systems initiatives; maintain functional accountability for FP&A outcomes

• Lead and develop the SETT FP&A team — set clear expectations, build capability, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
• Manage workload distribution across the team; flag capacity risk before it becomes a problem
• Create development opportunities that help team members grow toward broader finance roles

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CPA a plus
• 10+ years of progressive FP&A or finance experience,…