Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the role

Milacron is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Leader to lead the company’s global planning, forecasting, and decision-support function. This role will act as a strategic business partner to the CFO and Operating Leadership Team, using forward-looking analytics to drive business performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic business partner to the CFO and Operating Leadership Team, using forward-looking analytics to drive business performance.
• Translate planning, forecasting, and variance results into actionable insights across margin, pricing, cost structure, and working capital.
• Own the annual operating plan, quarterly re-forecasts, monthly outlooks, and three-year long-range plan.
• Develop and maintain driver-based financial models linking operational assumptions to revenue, margin, cash flow, and capital outcomes.
• Establish disciplined planning and forecasting processes with clear assumptions and forward-looking variance analysis.
• Lead Bain Capital sponsor and board reporting, including performance tracking, value creation plan updates, KPI dashboards, and financial narratives.
• Anticipate stakeholder questions and proactively build analyses and models to address them.
• Support lender reporting and covenant compliance in collaboration with Controller and Treasury teams.
• Lead financial modeling and analytics for M&A, including diligence, quality of earnings, and synergy modeling.
• Develop post-acquisition integration tracking frameworks to measure deal performance.
• Drive FP&A systems transformation, including planning, consolidation, and BI tools (e.g., OneStream, Power BI).
• Partner with IT and Finance to improve data architecture, reporting automation, and system scalability.
• Lead and develop the corporate FP&A team and India COE, building a high-performing, insight-driven organization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Controller, Tax, Treasury, Commercial Finance, and Operations Finance to ensure a single source of financial truth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive finance experience with significant focus in FP&A, including leadership of a function or major sub-function.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing FP&A teams.
• Strong track record of partnering with commercial and operational leaders to drive measurable performance improvement.
• Experience owning planning processes including annual operating plan, forecasts, and long-range planning.
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including driver-based modeling.
• Experience supporting M&A activities, including modeling, diligence, and integration tracking.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to develop executive-level and sponsor-ready financial narratives.
• Experience with enterprise planning, BI, or reporting tools and driving transformation initiatives.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Experience in a private equity-backed or sponsor-owned environment.
• Industrial manufacturing, capital equipment, or related industry experience.
• Experience leading enterprise FP&A system implementations (e.g., OneStream).
• Exposure to global multi-plant operations and international finance structures.