Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

MW Components, Inc.; Fairfield (CT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MW Components, Inc. seeks a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead enterprise planning, forecasting, and management reporting across our multi-site manufacturing network.

You will partner with executives and business leaders to translate drivers into actionable financial insights, strengthen performance management, and support profitable growth. Build a high-performing FP&A team and drive automation and robust financial processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field; MBA/CPA/CMA preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership.
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or multi-site environments.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and cash-flow analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budget, long-range plan, and rolling forecast with clear ownership.
• Deliver timely management reporting, variance analysis, and risk/opportunity insights.
• Partner with commercial/operations on revenue, costs, and capital spending analysis.
• Develop scenario models and business cases for growth initiatives and investments.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and standardized reporting across locations.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Management reporting

Cash-flow drivers

Leadership

Change management

ERP & BI tools

GAAP/IFRS knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics

MBA

CPA

CMA

Tools

SAP

NetSuite

Visual/Legacy ERP

Epicor

Hyperion

Adaptive

Job description

The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a strategic finance leader responsible for enterprise planning, forecasting, management reporting, and decision support across a multi-site industrial business. The role partners closely with executives, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to translate business drivers into actionable financial insights, strengthen performance management, and support profitable growth. This position leads the FP&A and accounting functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget, long-range plan, and rolling forecast processes, ensuring clear assumptions, ownership, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Deliver timely management reporting, including variance analysis, business-driver commentary, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with commercial and operations leaders on revenue, volume, price, mix, material cost, labor, overhead, productivity, inventory, and capital-spending analysis.
• Develop scenario models and business cases for growth initiatives, pricing decisions, capacity investments, footprint optimization, acquisitions, and other strategic actions.
• Establish and maintain key performance indicators, dashboards, and standardized reporting that improve accountability and decision-making across locations and functions.
• Provide forward-looking insights on profitability, cash flow, working capital, and return on investment; recommend corrective actions when performance is off plan.
• Support executive and board-level presentations with concise, decision-oriented analysis and a clear financial narrative.
• Improve planning tools, data quality, reporting automation, and financial processes in partnership with accounting, information technology, and business teams.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing FP&A team with strong analytical, business-partnering, and communication capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field; MBA, CPA, CMA, or similar credential preferred.
• 5 or more years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success in manufacturing, distribution, industrial products, or another operationally complex, multi-site environment.
• Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, and cash-flow drivers.
• Advanced proficiency with enterprise resource planning, planning, business-intelligence, and spreadsheet tools; experience improving systems and automating reporting preferred.
• Experience leading and developing teams through change, evolving priorities, and tight reporting cycles.
• Knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting standards, IFRS knowledge a plus
• Experience with financial software and ERP systems (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, Visual, Epicor) and consolidation software (Hyperion, Adaptive) is a plus.