Director, Enterprise Financial Planning

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the central coordination and steering point for financial planning across all business controlling teams, including Product Controlling, Production Controlling, Investment Controlling, Corporate Controlling, and Commercial Controlling.
• Consolidate, review, and challenge inputs from each team to ensure the combined enterprise plan aligns with financial targets, constraints, and strategic priorities.
• Facilitate trade-off discussions across functions when individual plans are misaligned with enterprise objectives, and drive alignment to the “one-company” view.
• Ensure consistency across assumptions, timing, definitions, and methodologies used in company-wide plans.

Official Forecasting, Long-Range Planning & Parent Company Reporting

• Own the company’s official enterprise forecasts submitted throughout the year.
• Lead long-range financial planning, integrating operating plans, investment strategies, and financial capacity.
• Serve as the primary finance interface for forecast and planning submissions to the parent company, including preparing executive-ready materials and narratives.

Enterprise Planning Across Multiple Entities

• Consolidate forecasts, plans, and scenarios across multiple legal entities and operating units into a single enterprise financial view.
• Ensure consistent assumptions, timing, and treatment of intercompany activities within enterprise planning models.
• Partner closely with Accounting to align planning-level views with legal-entity structures and group reporting requirements.
• Support the evolution of enterprise planning processes and models as the company adds new entities, operations, and complexity over time.

Integrated Financial Modeling

• Maintain and evolve the integrated enterprise financial model connecting the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Maintain an integrated enterprise financial model that supports multi-entity planning and consolidation across the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Translate functional and operational forecasts into enterprise-level impacts, including liquidity, working capital, and capital deployment.
• Partner closely with Accounting, Treasury, and Tax to ensure plans are financially sound, executable, and aligned to external reporting realities.

Enterprise Performance Reporting, Risks & Opportunities

• Lead enterprise-level financial reporting for executive leadership, internal steering forums, and parent-company reviews.
• Own the enterprise financial narrative: what happened, why it happened, and what management actions are required.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate enterprise-level risks and opportunities, including sensitivities and early-warning indicators.
• Drive scenario planning to support decision making under uncertainty and highlight key trade-offs for leadership.

Planning Standards & Ways of Working

• Define and help enforce enterprise planning standards, assumptions frameworks, timelines, and version control.
• Promote disciplined planning governance and a single source of financial truth across controlling teams and entities.
• Support the evolution of enterprise planning processes, tools, and reporting as the company grows.

Location & Travel Expectations

• This role may be based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC.
• This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events.
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.
• Occasional business travel (mostly domestic, occasionally international) to other locations will be required.