Director, Planning Systems & Analytics

Viasat; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 261,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Viasat in California seeks a senior leader to run Planning Systems within Corporate FP&A. You will transform planning workflows, implement governance, lead a global team, and advance digital tools including AI.

The role partners with Finance and Global IT to deliver reliable planning, forecasting, close enablement, and reporting across the enterprise. Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of finance systems experience, Hyperion expertise, ERP transformation know-how, and a proven ability to drive

Qualifications

• 12+ years of related progressive experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Must be US Citizen.
• Strong project & program management experience gained on data centric programs.
• Deep experience with Hyperion(planning/forecasting cycles, model governance, performance, scripts & calculations, user experience / training, implementation).
• Demonstrable experience working with and understanding finance concepts.
• Experience with integrations with third party cloud applications such as EDMCS / EPBCS.
• Familiarity with Financial Data Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE), Essbase Calcs, Data Forms, etc.
• Experience with dimensional governance (cost centres/profit centres, product/customer hierarchies / Divisions) and finance master data concepts.
• Strong architecture-level understanding of finance system integrations, including data orchestration patterns, environment strategy, release discipline, and upstream/downstream dependency management.
• Hands-on experience supporting finance, planning, and close enablement during major ERP transformations, including SAP / Oracle migrations.
• Experience building and leading global finance system support teams in complex or public-company environments with rigorous reporting cadence, executive scrutiny, and audit expectations.
• Familiarity with regulated environments and U.S. government programs.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap for planning systems and support wider data strategy, AI rollout, and future ERP initiatives across Accounting and Finance.
• Develop and lead an effective team of professionals in support of your objectives. Oversee, train and mentor staff including those within wider Finance.
• Own standard work initiatives including preparing and maintaining up to date documentation of technical specifications, configurations & rules, processes, and solutions.
• Develop and own effective process governance, including a fit for purpose intake and prioritization process (e.g. through a Jira ticket management system).
• Partner with Finance and Global IT to define and implement future state requirements, including integration, dimensions, standards, data governance, etc.
• Define and manage KPIs / SLAs (e.g. availability, data refresh timeliness, feed success rates, reconciliation breaks, close-cycle readiness, defect escape rates, user satisfaction).
• Lead modernization initiatives that reduce complexity and risk (e.g. simplify scripts and calculations, improve performance, automate controls, rationalize custom logic, etc).
• Support Global IT with the overall control environment, ensuring audit readiness, access governance, change control, evidence discipline, maintenance, segregation of duties, access controls, and recurring control performance. Proactively assess and remediate control risks.
• Own day to day production support to the Finance community - Collaborate with end users to understand requirements and manage changes needed in the Planning Application.
• Develop and embed training, ensuring users have the right knowledge and tools to succeed.
• Ensure timely, scalable, and predictable system reliability and performance, ensuring rapid issue resolution, particularly over close to forecast periods.
• Deliver integrity to finance data including mapping logic governance, dimensional alignment, stability guardrails, exception handling, monitoring, and escalation protocols.
• Translate finance priorities into application capabilities: planning/forecasting cycles, scenario modelling, close readiness, reconciliations enablement, and management reporting.
• Support Global IT with planning system financial and vendor management.
• Build and mature a super-user network to strengthen adoption, reduce support burden, and improve governed self-service.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Program management

Hyperion planning

Financial data governance

Finance systems integrations

ERP transformations

Data governance

Executive communication

Lean methodologies

Stakeholder management

Technical analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Tools

EDMCS/EPBCS

FDMEE

Essbase

Data Forms

Job description

Viasat in California seeks a senior leader to run Planning Systems within Corporate FP&A. You will transform planning workflows, implement governance, lead a global team, and advance digital tools including AI.

The role partners with Finance and Global IT to deliver reliable planning, forecasting, close enablement, and reporting across the enterprise. Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of finance systems experience, Hyperion expertise, ERP transformation know-how, and a proven ability to drive