Strategic FP&A Leader: Enterprise Planning & Insights

Midwest BankCentre; Missouri; On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Professional growth

Community focus

Job summary

Midwest BankCentre is seeking a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead enterprise budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, profitability analysis, and strategic decision support. This hands-on leader will build a scalable FP&A function and partner with executives and business leaders to translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions.

A key near-term priority is helping lead the implementation, adoption, and ongoing development of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related field; CPA, CMA, MBA, or similar advanced qualification strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, FP&A, or related experience including budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial analysis; leadership experience preferred.
• Banking or broader financial-services experience strongly preferred, including familiarity with funds transfer pricing, net interest margin, balance-sheet planning, and profitability analysis.
• Experience implementing, optimizing, or administering a modern EPM/CPM platform preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex data into clear executive communications, lead cross-functional initiatives, manage competing priorities, and improve scalable financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget, periodic forecasts, financial target setting, and multi-year strategic plan.
• Develop driver-based models, scenario analyses, and sensitivities that identify risks, opportunities, and required management actions.
• Provide financial analysis for strategic investments, products, contracts, capital initiatives, and other business decisions.
• Partner with Accounting, Treasury, and business leaders on balance-sheet, net interest margin, funding, and profitability planning.
• Establish enterprise and divisional KPIs, scorecards, reporting cadences, and performance-management routines.
• Partner with Accounting to explain actual-to-budget and actual-to-forecast results and identify underlying business drivers.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reporting and financial narratives for executive management, committees, and the Board.
• Advise and constructively challenge business leaders on assumptions, tradeoffs, risks, opportunities, and accountability for results.
• Serve as a Finance owner and power user for modern FP&A platform, supporting implementation, testing, training, adoption, administration, and future development.
• Translate business needs into scalable planning models, templates, workflows, dimensions, hierarchies, security roles, and reporting solutions.
• Partner across Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Enterprise Analytics, Digital/PMO, and external resources on integrations and process design.
• Oversee source-to-report data integrity, reconciliations, exception management, master-data changes, documentation, and appropriate controls.
• Use automation, business intelligence, and emerging technology to improve speed, insight, accuracy, and organizational capacity.

Skills

Leadership experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

EPM/CPM platforms

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or related field

Professional qualification (CPA/CMA/MBA) strongly preferred

Tools

EPM/CPM platform

Job description

Midwest BankCentre is seeking a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead enterprise budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, profitability analysis, and strategic decision support. This hands-on leader will build a scalable FP&A function and partner with executives and business leaders to translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions.

A key near-term priority is helping lead the implementation, adoption, and ongoing development of