Director of FP&A

Vaco by Highspring; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring, based in the United States, is seeking a Director of FP&A to lead enterprise financial planning and analysis across a multi-division organization. The role reports to the CFO and guides budgeting, rolling forecasting, long-range planning, and executive analytics.

The role supports a finance transformation initiative and requires building a high-performance FP&A team, improving systems and reporting, and partnering with senior leadership to drive growth and profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience.
• Meaningful experience managing and developing FP&A professionals.
• Demonstrated ownership of corporate budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including integrated three-statement and driver-based models.
• Experience supporting a manufacturing, tangible goods, consumer products, or similarly operational business.
• Strong understanding of product costing, margins, pricing, and profitability drivers.
• Experience supporting a multi-division or multi-entity organization.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise planning or CPM platform.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual operating plan across multiple divisions and the consolidated organization.
• Lead the monthly rolling forecast process across the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Develop driver-based forecasts in partnership with operational and functional leaders.
• Build and maintain a 3 to 5 year long-range financial plan.
• Measure forecast accuracy and improve planning discipline across the organization.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity models to support strategic decisions.
• Lead monthly management reporting and executive financial reviews.
• Prepare Board and investor-level reporting packages.
• Develop EBITDA bridges, variance analysis, and price-volume-mix reporting.
• Translate operational and financial results into clear recommendations.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends before they materially affect performance.
• Establish consistent KPIs across multiple divisions and functions.
• Partner with operations to understand product costs, margins, volumes, pricing, and operational performance.
• Analyze product, customer, channel, and business unit profitability.
• Support cost reduction and productivity initiatives.
• Develop reporting around manufacturing and operating performance.
• Connect operational decisions to their impact on EBITDA and cash flow.
• Partner with commercial leaders on pricing, promotions, and profitability.
• Analyze pricing realization and margin performance.
• Support profitability analysis across both traditional and digital sales channels.
• Evaluate marketing effectiveness, customer economics, and channel performance where applicable.
• Develop business cases for growth and investment initiatives.
• Support strategic transactions, acquisition analysis, diligence, and integration activities.
• Develop financial models and analyses for potential business transactions.
• Support management projections, diligence requests, and transaction-readiness initiatives.
• Help establish scalable reporting and financial processes that can withstand external scrutiny.
• Improve budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes across the organization.
• Increase utilization of enterprise planning and performance management tools.
• Partner with technology teams to improve dashboards, data quality, and financial reporting.
• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce manual processes and accelerate analysis.
• Establish consistent financial definitions, reporting standards, and planning methodologies across the business.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of FP&A professionals.
• Establish clear responsibilities and performance expectations.
• Develop team members into stronger financial business partners.
• Move the FP&A organization toward higher-value analysis rather than manual data assembly.
• Partner closely with the CFO as a senior member of the finance leadership team.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Financial modeling

Budgeting & forecasting

Executive communication

Excel & PowerPoint

Multi-division experience

Manufacturing costing

Private equity exposure

Education

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting

MBA/CPA (strongly preferred)

Tools

OneStream

Hyperion

Adaptive Planning

Anaplan

Job description

Schedule: Hybrid - 3 to 4 days onsite per week

About the Role

A privately held, private equity-backed organization is seeking a Director of FP&A to lead enterprise financial planning and analysis across a multi-division business.

Reporting directly to the CFO and leading an established FP&A team, this individual will own the annual budget, rolling forecast, long-range plan, management reporting, and executive-level financial analysis. The Director will serve as a key partner to senior leadership, helping translate financial and operational performance into actionable decisions around growth, profitability, cost management, and capital allocation.

The organization is entering an important period of finance transformation. This role will be responsible for strengthening FP&A processes, improving systems and reporting, developing the team, and helping prepare the organization for future strategic transactions.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

• Own the annual operating plan across multiple divisions and the consolidated organization
• Lead the monthly rolling forecast process across the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
• Develop driver-based forecasts in partnership with operational and functional leaders
• Build and maintain a 3 to 5 year long-range financial plan
• Measure forecast accuracy and improve planning discipline across the organization
• Develop scenario and sensitivity models to support strategic decisions

Performance Management and Executive Reporting

• Lead monthly management reporting and executive financial reviews
• Prepare Board and investor-level reporting packages
• Develop EBITDA bridges, variance analysis, and price-volume-mix reporting
• Translate operational and financial results into clear recommendations
• Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends before they materially affect performance
• Establish consistent KPIs across multiple divisions and functions

Manufacturing and Profitability Analysis

• Partner with operations to understand product costs, margins, volumes, pricing, and operational performance
• Analyze product, customer, channel, and business unit profitability
• Support cost reduction and productivity initiatives
• Develop reporting around manufacturing and operating performance
• Connect operational decisions to their impact on EBITDA and cash flow

Commercial and Channel Finance

• Partner with commercial leaders on pricing, promotions, and profitability
• Analyze pricing realization and margin performance
• Support profitability analysis across both traditional and digital sales channels
• Evaluate marketing effectiveness, customer economics, and channel performance where applicable
• Develop business cases for growth and investment initiatives

Strategic Finance and Transactions

• Support strategic transactions, acquisition analysis, diligence, and integration activities
• Develop financial models and analyses for potential business transactions
• Support management projections, diligence requests, and transaction-readiness initiatives
• Help establish scalable reporting and financial processes that can withstand external scrutiny

FP&A Transformation

• Improve budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes across the organization
• Increase utilization of enterprise planning and performance management tools
• Partner with technology teams to improve dashboards, data quality, and financial reporting
• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce manual processes and accelerate analysis
• Establish consistent financial definitions, reporting standards, and planning methodologies across the business
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of FP&A professionals
• Establish clear responsibilities and performance expectations
• Develop team members into stronger financial business partners
• Move the FP&A organization toward higher-value analysis rather than manual data assembly
• Partner closely with the CFO as a senior member of the finance leadership team

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience
• Meaningful experience managing and developing FP&A professionals
• Demonstrated ownership of corporate budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including integrated three-statement and driver-based models
• Experience supporting a manufacturing, tangible goods, consumer products, or similarly operational business
• Strong understanding of product costing, margins, pricing, and profitability drivers
• Experience supporting a multi-division or multi-entity organization
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise planning or CPM platform
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership

Strongly Preferred

• Private equity-backed company experience
• Board or sponsor reporting experience
• Experience supporting acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, or other transactions
• Manufacturing FP&A and product costing experience
• Experience with OneStream, Hyperion, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, or a comparable platform
• E-commerce or direct-to-consumer finance experience
• Finance transformation or systems implementation experience
• MBA and/or CPA

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will:

• Operate as a player-coach who can lead a team while remaining close to the analysis
• Bring strong executive presence and communication skills
• Challenge assumptions constructively and hold business partners accountable
• Be comfortable operating with urgency in a PE-backed environment
• Think beyond traditional FP&A and actively pursue automation and AI-enabled process improvements
• Build strong relationships across finance, operations, sales, and executive leadership
• Be capable of growing into broader finance leadership responsibilities over time

By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

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With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).