Financial Planning & Analysis Director

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Full Time Senior Management Minneapolis, MN, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Flagstone Foods:

At Flagstone Foods, we believe appreciation grows goodness. It lives at the heart of our work, and is our main ingredient, woven into everything we do for our customers, our teammates, and the communities we call home.

We’re one of North America’s largest manufacturers of snack nuts, trail mixes, and dried fruits, with plants in Robersonville, NC and El Paso, TX. Our teams keep our lines running, our food safe, and our quality high.

And we’re growing.

We’re looking for creative, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial people who want to make a meaningful impact and grow with us. If you share our passion for goodness, collaboration, and doing things the right way, you just might find your home at Flagstone Foods.

POSITION: FP&A Director

Position Summary

Flagstone Foods is seeking a strategic, hands‑on Director of FP&A to join our team, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer.

This role combines the core responsibilities of a traditional finance director (accurate and timely monthly reporting, operational analysis, and day‑to‑day decision support for the business) with a clear mandate to modernize how finance works. We are looking for a leader who will find practical ways to integrate AI into the business and leverage that information to inform the decision‑making process.

The ideal candidate brings deep finance and operational expertise, a proven record of leading transformation, genuine curiosity about AI and advanced analytics, and the leadership presence to influence change at all levels of the organization.

Essential Functions

Business Performance Reporting & Financial Performance

• Lead the monthly business results reporting package, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, operational KPIs results, with clear commentary on variances to budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Facilitate weekly and monthly business performance review meetings with functional leaders, explain key financial and operational drivers, align on corrective actions and follow up on accountability and results.
• Lead the annual budget and rolling forecast processes, maintaining driver‑based models for volume, price, mix, commodity costs, and manufacturing performance.
• Prepare reporting and presentation materials for the CFO, executive leadership, the board, and private equity sponsors.

Operational Analysis & Business Support

• Build and evaluate business cases for capital investments, cost‑savings initiatives, and new products, and track realized results against plan.
• Enhance SKU profitability reporting to facilitate timely review of bid versus actual information and provide insights to business partners.
• Develop a sourcing‑based commodity position management framework that links purchase commitments, inventory, demand forecasts, customer contract terms, and pricing exposure by commodity and SKU to support timely coverage, margin protection, and sourcing decisions.
• Apply predictive and optimization models to recommend the product and channel mix that maximize margin within plant capacity, commodity, and customer constraints.
• Evaluate current KPIs across the organization and establish best‑in‑class metrics to drive performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Finance Digital Strategy & Transformation

• Lead the identification, prioritization, and deployment of AI and advanced analytics use cases across finance and the broader business, each with a clear business case and measurable return.
• Partner with IT and data owners to establish the data foundation…