Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Who We Are

Formerra is a preeminent distributor of engineered materials, connecting the world’s leading polymer producers with thousands of OEMs and brand owners across healthcare, consumer, industrial, and mobility markets. Powered by technical and commercial expertise, it brings a distinctive combination of portfolio depth, supply chain strength, industry knowledge, service, leading ecommerce capabilities, and ingenuity. The experienced Formerra team helps customers across multiple industries to design, select, process, and develop products in new and better ways – driving improved performance, productivity, reliability, and sustainability.

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Formerra leads in the market with the following key capabilities:

• Problem-solving mindset, based on ingenuity and backed by a skilled and experienced commercial team that brings differentiated insights across markets including healthcare, consumer, industrial and mobility
• Expansive material portfolio, including engineering thermoplastics and traditional polymers across leading material brands
• Integrated, long-standing relationships with leading, global suppliers
• Unparalleled and highly specialized technical, processing, and design support
• Regulatory-compliant material support and expertise

Position Summary

The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis leads the company’s management reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic analysis processes. This role partners closely with executive leadership and functional leaders to translate financial and operational data into clear insights, actionable recommendations, and improved business performance. The Director will strengthen the FP&A function by improving forecast accuracy, enhancing management reporting and analytics, elevating commercial and operational decision support, and building a proactive, curious, and business-oriented finance team.

Success in this role requires going beyond the numbers to understand business drivers, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions that support sustainable EBITDA growth, cash generation, and strategic decision-making.

Location Requirement: This role is considered hybrid, and candidates must be within a commutable distance to our Romeoville office for 3 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial planning, forecasting, and performance management:Lead the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, including revenue, gross margin, operating expense, EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, and capital investment planning.
• Develop and maintain driver-based financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses that support strategic planning, resource allocation, pricing, customer/product profitability, and major business decisions.
• Provide executive leadership with timely, insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic plan, clearly explaining business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Drive accountability for forecast assumptions, forecast accuracy, and timely identification of risks and opportunities across the business.
• Commercial and operational business partnership:Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership and functional leaders, with particular emphasis on partnering with commercial leadership to improve sales productivity, pricing discipline, margin performance, customer mix, product mix, and profitability.
• Challenge operational and commercial assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and translate complex financial information into clear business recommendations that improve performance and accountability.
• Coordinate planning activities across Finance,…