Senior FP&A Leader: Growth & Transformation

Vaco; 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

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.