Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

About the role

The Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) leads enterprise planning and analytics, and performance management, with clear accountability for building and embedding standard FP&A work and a scalable enterprise financial data backbone that improves consistency of visibility, insight and action across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Build on existing FP&A processes and foundations to establish and embed FP&A standard work, common definitions and improve enterprise planning and forecasting frameworks.
• Simplify tools, reports and processes and partner with business and finance leaders to improve financial data management approach to enable more consistent, decision-ready insights across the organization.
• Lead the enterprise long-range financial plan, as well as the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecast, with clear ownership for translating enterprise priorities into P&L, cash, and balance sheet outcomes; partner with group finance leaders to drive clear performance commitments across all global operations; own timely decision making with accountability for high-quality trade-off analysis.
• Drive the CFO operating rhythm (MBRs/QBRs), delivering clear driver-based insights, forward looking risks and opportunities, and explicit “so-what/now-what” actions tied to accountable owners.
• Own Corporate FP&A data flows and data governance, alignment, and automation; own Corporate modeling, planning and FP&A reporting processes; accountability for simplifying and standardizing processes and tools, including through shared service finance offerings.
• Partner with business operations and finance leaders to advance maturity in data liquidity and digital analytics to provide internal data users with streamlined access to decision-ready information through a clear data liquidity framework supportive of accountability and autonomy of businesses within the portfolio.
• Partner with executive leadership team and CFO as the owner of financial analysis that shapes enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, and resource allocation, providing fact-based perspectives on growth, returns, and risk and capital productivity.
• Support Board and executive strategy discussions with clear, decision-ready scenarios and value-creation narratives, and integrated scenario planning tied to macroeconomic, supply chain, FX and geopolitical risk.
• Partner with ABM, business and finance leaders to connect key financial value drivers throughout the organization to create transparency and linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes across the business, and opportunities for support and best-practice acceleration on high-impact margin, cash, and productivity programs and early-warning analytics for execution and investment risk across the portfolio.
• Provide Investor Relations and the CFO with external-facing support on guidance frameworks, long-term value-creation narratives, and the linkage between operational performance and financial outcomes.
• Drive best practice across the company’s global finance organization through active use of ABM tools and methodology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
• MBA, CFA, and/or CPA strongly preferred.
• Expert financial modeling: driver-based and scenario planning; variance analysis and KPI design.
• Mastery of financial platforms (SAP, JDE, OneStream) and BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) with ability to identify and utilize new AI tools for digital finance, including Databricks.
• Advanced data analytics skills and proven experience maturing data liquidity.
• 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership of enterprise or multi-segment FP&A functions in complex, global organizations.
• Demonstrated impact on forecast accuracy, cycle time reduction, margin expansion, and cash conversion.
• Proven success in strong business partnering and driving continuous improvement.

Benefits

Details of these benefit plans will be provided when the selected job candidate receives an offer of employment.

Pay

The Compensation offered will be based on the local job market and may vary depending on factors such as the job-related knowledge, skills, experience of the selected candidate, as well as other objective business considerations.

Schedule

Subject to these considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, such as an annual cash incentive in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and/or other benefits.