Strategic FP&A Director: Budget, Forecast & Insights

Tropicale Foods, LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Tropicale Foods, LLC seeks a Director of FP&A to lead corporate and operations finance functions, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting to support strategic initiatives.

This role partners with executives and department managers to develop five-year plans, dashboards, and board-ready analyses, driving cost controls and performance improvements across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business with strong financial analytical and accounting experience required; MBA strongly preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience plus 5+ years of financial management experience
• Experience managing and driving finance, budgeting, and cost reduction principles and processes
• Strong knowledge of product/service margin analyses, investment return analysis and capital planning and management
• Expert knowledge of financial modeling and constructing models in MS Excel
• Expert knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems

Responsibilities

• Directs and coordinates financial planning and budget functions for the entire organization and the departments within the organization
• Assists in establishing benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance and make recommendations to key stakeholders
• Monitors and analyze monthly operating results against budget and forecast, including variance analysis
• Manages the preparation of financial reports/analysis
• Manages the preparation of financial forecasts and projections
• Prepares financial analysis for critical business decisions
• Collaborates with department managers to develop five-year business plans
• Collaborates with department managers to develop short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures
• Provides recommendations for process, systems and procedural improvements
• Prepares and presents quarterly and annual performance reports for executives, Board of Directors and external analysts, including earnings call information and management
• Develops, maintains and presents executive dashboards and scorecards
• Manages a team of managers and financial analysts

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Management reporting

MS Excel modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business

MBA

Tools

MS Excel

Financial systems

Job description

Tropicale Foods, LLC seeks a Director of FP&A to lead corporate and operations finance functions, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting to support strategic initiatives.

This role partners with executives and department managers to develop five-year plans, dashboards, and board-ready analyses, driving cost controls and performance improvements across the organization.