Planning Finance Director — Strategic Growth

Raytheon; Tucson (AZ); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 299,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Incentive compensation programs

Job summary

Raytheon, a leader in aerospace and defense, seeks an Associate Director of Planning Finance to drive the analytical interface with the functional planning team and align with Finance to support Raytheon’s growth programs.

You will influence material planning, capacity investment, and procurement, enabling optimal material availability and strategic inventory policies across factories.

Qualifications

• Typically requires: a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years experience.
• Experience supporting supply chain, operations, or manufacturing environments.
• Ability to travel to support critical initiatives.
• Experience with financial modeling, analytical, and quantitative skills.
• Executive communication experience, including executive-quality PowerPoint creation.
• Experience in Excel modeling.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the full financial cadence around strategic Supply Chain AR/CFRs and other tools to accelerate material, creating a value-add process that supports business needs
• Identify optimized target inventory levels to ensure material availability for critical growth programs and a process to manage/track the financial results
• Coordinate across SBU and Functional Finance to drive alignment between planning and Raytheon’s financial commitments
• Ensure aligned quantities between SBU Finance and Planning functions, validating that orders are appropriately planned and required investment is secured
• Lead strategic capacity investment support with financial business case analysis
• Conduct constraint analyses to support investment initiatives and improve material availability in Raytheon’s factories
• Provide budgetary support for S&OP planning functions (direct, indirect CER pools)
• Act as a catalyst for data‑driven decision making
• Capable of standing up a team and designing cross‑functional, results‑oriented business processes
• Lead others in turning complex data into clear insights that drive action
• Proactively drive financial performance including identifying key success enablers for Operations and other down-stream functions
• Comfortable supporting multiple workstreams in a fast‑paced environment with evolving priorities
• Must be able to influence without authority and build consensus among executive-level stakeholders
• Ability to solve complex problems and turn ambiguous or incomplete data into strategic actions
• Must demonstrate a strong sense of initiative and personal drive, actively seeking opportunities to improve processes, strengthen supply chain performance, and support organizational transformation

Skills

Executive communication

Excel modeling

Financial modeling

Analytical skills

Travel flexibility

Security clearance

Education

University degree or equivalent

Advanced degree in related field

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Raytheon, a leader in aerospace and defense, seeks an Associate Director of Planning Finance to drive the analytical interface with the functional planning team and align with Finance to support Raytheon’s growth programs.

You will influence material planning, capacity investment, and procurement, enabling optimal material availability and strategic inventory policies across factories.