Director, FP&A: Strategic Finance Leader for Growth

StarTech.com; Canada; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

StarTech.com seeks a Director, FP&A to elevate financial planning, forecasting, and commercial finance across the organization. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, Supply Chain, Operations, HR and Executive Leadership to translate complex data into actionable insights driving profitable growth.

You will lead enterprise-wide planning, executive reporting and analytics, building proactive, insight-driven FP&A capabilities and a future-ready team ready to transform finance functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related discipline.
• 8-12 years of progressive finance experience, with 4-5 years in FP&A leadership.
• Proven experience leading Financial Planning & Analysis within a global organization.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership to influence business decisions.
• Strong commercial finance experience including pricing, forecasting and business performance analysis.
• Advanced financial modelling and forecasting expertise.
• Experience leading annual planning cycles and multi-year financial planning.
• Strong understanding of gross margin, pricing, costing and operational finance.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience using ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics is an asset).
• Outstanding executive communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and organise high-performing teams.
• Naturally curious, proactive and comfortable in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Financial Planning & Forecasting.
• Own and improve annual budgeting and rolling forecasts.
• Develop three-year revenue and P&L plans across countries, product categories, buying centers and customer segments.
• Build scenario models (base, best and worst case) to support executive decisions.
• Improve forecast accuracy and visibility into future performance.
• Deliver executive business insights through meaningful financial analysis.
• Build executive reporting and dashboards communicating performance, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Translate financial information into concise recommendations for leaders.
• Identify and prioritise business issues with greatest financial impact.
• Drive commercial finance and gross margin performance with cross-functional partners.
• Analyze tariffs, sourcing strategies, pricing decisions and product mix.
• Develop commercial finance frameworks supporting profitability.
• Support sourcing optimization and inventory planning.
• Modernise FP&A processes, reporting and planning capabilities.
• Redesign enterprise KPIs and performance measurement.
• Improve measurement of commercial success and business performance.
• Build a proactive, strategic FP&A function with business partner alignment.
• Lead and develop the FP&A team with mentorship.
• Establish priorities, organize work and develop capabilities.
• Foster a collaborative and ownership-minded Finance culture.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership & mentoring

Financial planning & analysis

Pricing & cost analysis

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

StarTech.com seeks a Director, FP&A to elevate financial planning, forecasting, and commercial finance across the organization. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, Supply Chain, Operations, HR and Executive Leadership to translate complex data into actionable insights driving profitable growth.

You will lead enterprise-wide planning, executive reporting and analytics, building proactive, insight-driven FP&A capabilities and a future-ready team ready to transform finance functions.