Director, Financial Planning and Analysis
Celanese · Irving, TX · 1 wk ago
HybridFinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual budgeting, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, translating business strategy into financial plans and scenario analyses to assess risks and opportunities.
- Validate monthly business actual financial results, partnering closely with Accounting and Controllership to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of reported financials.
- Deliver timely and insightful variance analysis against forecast, identifying key performance drivers and recommending corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical rigor.
- Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business and functional leaders, providing data-driven insights to support strategic initiatives, investments, and resource allocation.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support business cases, pricing decisions, and profitability analysis.
- Support M&A, capital investment, and other strategic initiatives through financial modeling, valuation, and post-investment performance tracking.
- Enhance FP&A processes, tools, and systems to improve scalability, automation, and insight generation.
- Partner with IT and finance transformation teams on planning system enhancements and data model improvements.
- Ensure strong governance, controls, and documentation across planning and reporting processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or related roles, with demonstrated business partnership at a senior level.
- Prior experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Industry experience in a complex, matrixed, or global organization preferred.