Director of FP&A: Strategic Planning & Growth Analytics

Confidential; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in Chicago, IL is seeking a senior FP&A leader to own budgeting, rolling forecast, and long-range planning, including revenue, gross margin, operating expense, EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, and capex.

You will build driver-based models, run scenario analyses, provide actionable insights to executives, partner with commercial leaders to improve profitability, and lead a team to deliver timely, decision-ready reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership with timely, insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic plan, clearly explaining business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Drive accountability for forecast assumptions, forecast accuracy, and timely identification of risks and opportunities across the business.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership and functional leaders, with emphasis on partnering with commercial leadership to improve sales productivity, pricing discipline, margin performance, customer mix, product mix, and profitability.
• Challenge operational and commercial assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and translate complex financial information into clear business recommendations that improve performance and accountability.
• Coordinate planning activities across Finance, Accounting, Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, and other functions to ensure alignment between financial commitments, operating plans, and strategic priorities.
• Lead the development of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting packages, dashboards, KPIs, and business reviews for executive leadership and other stakeholders.
• Improve visibility into business drivers through enhanced reporting, data quality, and analytics, including clear insight into revenue, volume, price, mix, material margin, operating expense, working capital, cash flow, and EBITDA performance.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, consistent, timely, and decision-ready, with clear ownership of definitions, data governance, and recurring performance metrics.
• Support corporate strategy through financial modeling, business case development, ROI analysis, capital allocation support, and evaluation of strategic investments, acquisitions, divestitures, and integration activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operating efficiency, working capital productivity, and cash generation, and partner with business leaders to convert insights into measurable actions.
• Continuously improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and analytics processes through standardization, automation, stronger data governance, and effective use of ERP, financial planning, and business intelligence tools.
• Establish FP&A best practices that increase efficiency, improve forecast accuracy, reduce manual effort, and create scalable reporting and planning capabilities.
• Leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics tools to enhance financial planning, forecasting, reporting, scenario modeling, and decision-making across the organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop the FP&A team, setting clear goals, expectations, and accountability for high-quality analysis, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
• Promote a culture of curiosity, ownership, proactive problem solving, collaboration, and constructive challenge across Finance and the broader organization.

Job description

Confidential in Chicago, IL is seeking a senior FP&A leader to own budgeting, rolling forecast, and long-range planning, including revenue, gross margin, operating expense, EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, and capex.

You will build driver-based models, run scenario analyses, provide actionable insights to executives, partner with commercial leaders to improve profitability, and lead a team to deliver timely, decision-ready reporting.