Lead Finance Control

Role Overview

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead annual operating plans, budgets, and long-range financial plans.
• Partner with business leaders to develop assumptions and align plans with strategic priorities.
• Review planning inputs for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Own monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts.
• Track and analyze actual versus plan versus forecast performance.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities and provide actionable insights.
• Perform variance, driver-based, scenario, and sensitivity analysis.
• Support business cases, investment decisions, and cost optimization initiatives.

Reporting, Governance, and Leadership

• Act as a finance business partner to Operations, Sales, HR, and other stakeholders.
• Present financial results and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead management reports, dashboards, and KPIs and improve reporting frameworks.
• Drive automation and efficiency improvements in planning and reporting processes.
• Create SOPs, documentation, and process-standardization initiatives.
• Ensure data integrity across financial systems and reports.
• Work with ERP, planning, and BI platforms to improve reporting capabilities.
• Ensure adherence to financial controls and governance policies.
• Support audits with analysis, reconciliations, and documentation.
• Mentor junior analysts and review deliverables for quality and accuracy.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field is required.
• 6-8 years of FP&A, financial analysis, or corporate finance experience is required.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for financial modeling, dashboards, and automation are required.
• Experience with ERP systems is required.
• Exposure to planning and reporting tools including Anaplan, Hyperion, SAP BPC, or Adaptive Insights is required.
• Strong familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools is required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in a shared services or global business environment is preferred.
• Financial modeling, scenario planning, and business case evaluation experience is preferred.
• Exposure to Power Query, VBA, or Python automation tools is optional.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills are preferred.
• Experience with large, complex datasets is preferred.