[Remote] Director, FP&A - Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LabConnect is hiring a Director of FP&A to lead enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and analysis. The role partners with senior leaders to identify risks and opportunities, improve business performance, and support strategic and financial decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve company-wide operating expense and capital expenditure planning and forecasting processes
• Perform monthly variance analysis against forecasts and budgets, partnering with stakeholders to explain results, identify trends, and recommend corrective actions
• Prepare and maintain periodic financial forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans
• Identify, quantify, and track cost optimization and productivity opportunities across the organization
• Perform ad hoc financial and scenario analysis, including what-if modeling, sensitivity analysis, investment evaluation, and assessment of business risks and opportunities
• Month end review, including developing insights into financial trends
• Develop recurring management and executive-level reporting and presentations that communicate financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to business leaders by participating in operating reviews, building stakeholder relationships, challenging assumptions, and supporting financial decision-making
• Support processes related to tracking and reporting value realization around strategic initiatives
• Develop metrics and analytical framework to build a disciplined approach to measuring performance and reporting to technology and business leadership
• Manage and develop FP&A team members, including interviewing and hiring, performance management, development, and coaching
• Support change and ongoing transformation

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in finance, accounting, or a business-related discipline required
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive FP&A experience is required, including financial reporting and consolidation experience
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing a team is required
• Ability to build strong business partnerships and collaborate across multiple business units and stakeholders
• Strong sense of urgency to meet deadlines with ability to lead multiple projects and initiatives concurrently
• Superior knowledge of financial analysis and building financial models
• Experience using management reporting, enterprise performance management, or FP&A systems to support planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis is required
• High level of proficiency of MS Office Suite, including PowerPoint and intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong executive presence
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results
• Collaborative, customer-focused and able to create visible value
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to perform calculations and manage budgets
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts to budget management for clinical trials
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or clinical research protocols
• Ability to draft reports and business correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from colleagues and clients
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including word processing, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint, as well as an aptitude for learning new database software quickly
• Master's degree in accounting or CPA preferred
• Global experience is strongly preferred
• Experience with Datarails is preferred
• Salesforce and SharePoint preferred
• Salesforce and SharePoint experience preferred

Benefits

• 401k Match
• Possible Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Health Benefits beginning on date of hire
• PTO plan
• 11 Paid Company Holidays
• 1 Day to Volunteer in your community
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• AD&D
• Career growth opportunities, globally
• Friendly and collaborative environment with open lines of communication
• Remote - US

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