FP&A Director - Search Services

FP&A DIRECTOR
Central Houston - HybridComp package includes STI and LTI
Summary
This is a newly created position in the company, which is very visible to the C-suite.

As Director of FP&A, you will work with the VP of FP&A, the CFO, CEO, and other members of the leadership team. You will be pivotal in decision support and work across departments and functional groups to provide a wide range of key metrics forecasts, variance analysis, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own corporate budgeting and planning processes 
• Conducts variance analysis on actuals vs forecast and forecast vs forecast; conducts trend analysis
• Produces short- and long-term forecasts for key metrics, including sensitivities
• Builds and maintains models for GAAP and non-GAAP financial and operational metrics
• Assists with month- and quarter-end reporting and analysis, including preparation of board reports, supporting analysis for SEC reporting, and investor relations requests  
• Process improvement – actively develop ways to improve systems, reports, and models; move Excel models to a systems-based approach and point out needed upstream IT/data improvements
• Manages and coaches professional FP&A staff that efficiently serves stakeholders
• Ad hoc analysis to support management decision-making

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree Accounting, Finance, or Economics
• MBA/CFA preferred
• Initial experience in Big4 audit
• Proven track record as a Director, FP&A, or in a similar leadership capacity.
• 6+ years’ experience with accountability for managing direct reports
• Able to master new financial/information systems quickly
• Experience with enterprise cloud financial reporting software, along with a high proficiency in Excel
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and overall business/commercial operations
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills, with a focus on mentoring and developing top talent
• Excellent emotional intelligence (EQ), communication and presentation skills
• Experience with planning tools like OneStream
• Tableau and/or Salesforce experience a plus
• Experience with structured finance, asset-level debt, and tax equity waterfalls structures also a plus
• Self-starter, proactive personality
• Able to direct and motivate others, even outside of team/group
• Strategic mindset