Director, FP&A

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The Director is the primary FP&A partner to the CFO of Health and leads the team supporting Health consolidation and agency FP&A. The Director owns the consolidated financial view and story of Health, translating performance, forecasts, workforce trends, risks, and opportunities into clear insights and recommendations.

The role combines strong financial execution with forward-looking decision support. The Director ensures that core planning, consolidation, workforce, bonus, and severance processes are well managed, while helping the CFO evaluate how headcount, staff costs, productivity, and capacity should align with revenue and business demand. The Director leads the team responsible for the underlying work and remains accountable for the quality and delivery of its outputs.

• Earns the confidence of the CFO of Health as a trusted FP&A partner who provides reliable execution, clear analysis, and practical recommendations.
• Delivers one cohesive financial story for Health, connecting current performance with the future outlook, key business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Ensures core FP&A processes and outputs are accurate, timely, well controlled, and appropriately owned across the team.
• Provides clear access to whether headcount, staff costs, efficiency, and capacity are aligned with revenue and changing business needs.
• Builds productive relationships with the Heads of Finance while constructively challenging assumptions and surfacing issues early.
• Develops a capable FP&A team that independently accomplishes its responsibilities and increasingly focuses on analysis and business partnership.
• Improves the efficiency and scalability of Health FP&A through clearer ownership, standardization, automation, and effective use of technology.

• Serve as the CFO’s primary FP&A partner, developing a strong understanding of business priorities, key decisions, and financial information needs.
• Translate financial and operating information into a clear view of performance, outlook, risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and recommended actions.
• Support decisions involving growth, margin, costs, workforce, productivity, investment, restructuring, and organizational capacity.
• Anticipate questions and emerging issues and direct the analysis needed to help the CFO evaluate potential actions.
• Drive appropriate follow-through on finance-supported decisions and commitments across the Health organization.

• Own the consolidated FP&A view and financial story for Health across approximately six agency brands.
• Integrate agency forecasts, business drivers, and operating perspectives into a cohesive view of current performance and future outlook.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the drivers behind revenue, pipeline, headcount, staff costs, productivity, utilization, overhead, margin, client profitability, and working capital.
• Identify patterns, inconsistencies, and emerging risks within agency forecasts and management assumptions.
• Ensure material risks and opportunities are quantified, monitored, and appropriately…