Director, Financial Planning

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

Financial Planning & Analysis
• Own the enterprise-wide planning process, setting the standard for how the organization forecasts, budgets, and reports — establishing a cadence that is proactive, consistent, and decision-ready.
• Lead the monthly financial performance review, synthesizing results to deliver meaningful commentary and strategic insight that informs leadership decision-making.
• Translate financial performance into actionable guidance, delivering analysis that connects P&L results, capital deployment, and business initiatives to the Company’s growth objectives.
• Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the executive committee, proactively surfacing risks, opportunities, and recommendations through high-quality board packages, scorecards, and executive reporting.
• Drive cross-functional financial partnership, collaborating with business and functional leaders to embed financial rigor into operational strategies and organizational initiatives.
• Govern the capital planning and approval process, ensuring a rigorous investment evaluation framework — including ROI modeling — is in place to assess key initiatives and hold the business accountable to deliver shareholder value.
• Spearhead the evaluation and implementation of a new financial planning and reporting platform, leading adoption across the finance team to streamline, modernize, and elevate the Company’s planning and management reporting capabilities.

Leadership & Team Development
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence.
• Set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing coaching, and create meaningful development opportunities for all direct and indirect reports.
• Champion a data-driven, ownership-oriented culture.

Position Requirements:
• Proven track record as a finance leader with demonstrated success leading a high performing FP&A function.
• Experience operating in a multi-site retail environment is strongly preferred.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term vision with day-to-day execution and operational detail.
• Exceptional influencing skills — able to drive alignment, shape decisions, and lead change at the executive level and across the broader organization.
• Proven ability to create, implement and maintain best-in-class processes, systems and structure.
• Strong change management capabilities with a history of transforming functions and building organizations from tactical to strategic.
• Outstanding financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with financial planning systems or data visualization tools (e.g., Hyperion, Essbase, IBM Planning Analytics, Power BI, or similar).
• Clear, articulate communication style; someone that can make complex things simple and is able to synthesize information quickly.
• Ability to thrive under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset — actively seeks feedback, adapts to change, and fosters the same in others.
• A strong team leader who acts as a player/manager. Possesses the ability to recruit, retain and motivate a high-performance team, and hold them to account.

Position Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other quantitative discipline.
• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• MBA strongly preferred.