Pinnacle Search Partners Looking for VP of Financial Planning and Analysis at Glendale, AZ Full Time

High visibility role reporting to the CFO for an industry leader providing supplies and services to aviation clients across the globe. Headquartered in Glendale, AZ, and backed by a top tier private equity firm. The CFO is building a best-in-class team and is looking for a hands-on executor with a strategic mindset, data enthusiast, and adept leader skilled at partnering with people at all levels across the organization. The CFO takes pride in being able to mentor and develop his team and views this role as a major step on the path to being a CFO.

The VP of FP&A will build a robust FP&A capability and drive data-backed decision-making across the organization. S/he is a partner to the CFO and the Corporate Controller in growing the company and transforming the Finance & Accounting function by streamlining and, implementing scalable processes, developing KPIs and scorecards, and establishing business intelligence frameworks. S/he will drive budgeting, planning, and forecasting initiatives. The VP, FP&A will manage a Financial Analyst, who will reside in the Finance Team, and work with the private equity sponsor to evaluate bolt-on opportunities, as they arise.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Business Partnering

• Partner with business leaders to attain strategic EBITDAR targets by persuasively communicating fact-based insights and data driven analysis to support value creation initiatives.

Leadership and Building the Organization’s Capabilities

• Outline organizational and functional requirements for a “fit for purpose” FP&A function and develop transformation roadmap
• Assist Treasury Operations team in developing capability to report weekly cash flow and liquidity reporting (“13 Week Cash Flow Forecasts”)

Analytics and Decision Making

• Own KPI process, measure results, and explain variances; implement KPIs and analytics to enable informed, fact based, “real-time” decisions
• Build/optimize the acquisitions ROI model to drive better business decisions in a BI solution (Power BI) or other

Reporting, Planning & Forecasting

• Establish reporting cadence and automate monthly Operating Council reporting
• Lead Annual Operating Plan creation and maintain budget/forecasting
• Manage and direct monthly and annual budgeting process for business units including analysis of financial statement data and variances
• Design and develop reporting capabilities such as websites, digital dashboards, mobile applications, etc. to increase utilization of information produced through the monthly and annual budgeting process, the 13 Week Cash Flow Forecast process, and Business Intelligence processes

M&A Support

• Support the private equity sponsor and Deal team as required in evaluation of bolt-on opportunities and various modeling scenarios and lead process to execute synergies

Qualifications, Education, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Master’s degree preferred
• 10 – 15 years’ experience in related industry
• 5 – 10 years’ managerial experience
• Private equity experience required
• Experience with consolidating tools such as Planful and Hyperion
• Experience working with business intelligence tools (SQL, MS Power BI) strongly preferred
• Exceptional attention to detail & obsession with accuracy

Skills:

• Organizational Agility: Ability to work across functions and influence stakeholders
• Action Orientation: Bias for action and pace of execution. Fact base – operates with a set of operational and financial facts
• Leadership: Transformation leader who drives change and supports the vision of the executive management team
• Technical skill set: Expertise in Excel based modeling, definition of KPIs and “metrics that matter”. Ability to professionally represent the current state of the business and variances/deviations from budget; management information systems; administration focus on bottom line and long-term goals; P&L responsibility
• Strategic perspective: Business strategy development and implementation, company restructuring or reengineering; creating a new focus; business plans
• Information Design/Data Visualization: Visual presentation of information in a manner that provides relevant stakeholders with an efficient and effective understanding of the data
• Experience performing due diligence on and integrating bolt-on acquisitions
• Applies objective business judgement in supporting management decisions

This client is open to well-qualfied candidates considering relocation!

• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be fluent in English (read, write, speak, and fully understand)