Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) plays a critical leadership role in providing forward‑thinking financial guidance and strategic partnership to senior executives across FINRA’s enterprise. This role combines financial expertise with exceptional business acumen to serve as a trusted advisor and executive‑level business partner to key stakeholders, helping them understand and optimize financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and drive informed, financially sound decision‑making in alignment with FINRA’s overall finance strategy.

As a senior leader on the FP&A team, this position is responsible for developing and elevating the FP&A function, creating high‑impact management reporting, ensuring robust forecasts, and providing strategic recommendations that enable data‑driven decisions. This leader drives proactive financial analyses across complex business units within the FINRA Enterprise and works closely with the Vice President, FP&A on high‑level strategic initiatives, serving as their alternate as needed.

The Director establishes strong relationships with executive leadership to reality‑test business strategy, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment of financial strategies with corporate objectives – particularly for newly consolidated groups requiring sophisticated financial partnership. This role also maintains Enterprise‑wide visibility and accountability driving cross‑functional strategy, consolidating insights across multiple business units, and ensuring cohesive financial planning that supports FINRA’s overall strategic objectives.

• Lead and deliver comprehensive Enterprise financial planning strategies and processes (across all business lines).
  • Develop BU‑specific annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long‑range financial plans across business units, owning end‑to‑end infrastructure, processes, and communication of operating expenses, capital initiatives and revenues.
  • Define procedures for FP&A team that align with organizational fiscal objectives and business goals.
  • Oversee creation of executive‑ready analyses, dashboards, and narratives for CFAO and senior leadership review.
• Monitor and report on financial KPIs and key business drivers; identify trends and areas for improvement; and provide recommendations to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Build and evolve decision‑enabling financial tools and models, leveraging data visualizations, storytelling, and emerging technology to enhance efficiency, scalability, and stakeholder financial literacy.
• Drive advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis supporting strategic initiatives, resource allocation, capital projects, and business case development including cost/benefit analysis and risk assessment.
• Partner closely across FP&A teams to ensure the department’s operating plans align with Enterprise strategic priorities and that senior leadership has timely visibility into performance.
• Establish frameworks and standards that ensure consistency, accuracy and strategic alignment across all business units.
• Develop and maintain enterprise financial models that integrate revenue, expense and capital projections across all business units, enabling comprehensive what‑if analysis and strategic trade‑off decisions.
• Oversee and develop FP&A team, managing operational aspects of workflow, performance, and compliance.

• Partner closely with executive leadership in aligned businesses to provide financial insights, evaluate business performance, and guide data‑driven decision‑making to support budgets, forecasts and long‑term growth
• Oversee monthly/quarterly management reporting and analysis for business segments to deliver insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year with strategic, business‑driven commentary to senior leadership.
• Oversee planning process for the business units, including annual budget and rolling forecasts; and initiatives to streamline budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes.

• Coach and develop team members, and conduct effective performance management and…