Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis

Park Capital Search; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Park Capital Search is seeking a VP, FP&A for a hands-on leadership role at a private equity–backed operator in the leisure and entertainment sector. You will personally build and refine financial models, partner with investors and site leaders, and translate operational detail into decision-ready insights.

The role requires deep FP&A experience (15+ years), multi-site operations, and excellence in Excel and ERP systems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of FP&A experience, ideally in PE-backed or closely scrutinized environments.
• Hands-on financial modeling and deep quantitative analysis required.
• Strong leadership, team development, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced Excel proficiency; experience with ERP systems and planning tools.
• Experience partnering with investors and multi-site operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models driving labor, Opex and COGS decisions.
• Lead and develop a team of 3–5 analysts, setting high standards.
• Act as primary finance contact for institutional investor and senior leaders.
• Analyze cost drivers, labor trends, and operating expense across sites.
• Partner with site leaders to understand drivers and validate spend.
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting and forecasting with rigor.
• Leverage systems/tools to improve speed and repeatability of analysis.
• Bring extensive FP&A experience to independent complex analyses.

Skills

Financial modeling

Team leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Excel

Power BI

S/4HANA

Adaptive Planning

Multi-site ops

Education

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting

Tools

S/4HANA

Power BI

Job description

A hands-on leadership seat at the analytical core of a fast-moving, private equity–backed operator – where sharp financial insight directly shapes how the business manages cost, labor, and performance across a national footprint of sites.

Our client is a private equity–backed operator in the leisure and entertainment sector, running a portfolio of consumer-facing operating locations across a national footprint. The business pairs the scale and intensity of multi-site operations with the financial discipline expected of an institutionally owned platform. Backed by an active institutional investor, the company operates in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment in which rigorous financial insight is central to how the business plans, manages cost, and measures results.

This is a hands-on leadership role at the analytical heart of the company’s finance function. Reporting to senior finance leadership, the Vice President, FP&A will lead a focused team of three to five analysts while remaining directly engaged in the modeling and analysis that drive decisions across labor, operating expense, and cost of sales.

This is a builder-and-operator role rather than a purely strategic oversight position. The successful candidate will personally develop models, produce analysis, and partner closely with the company’s investor and operating leaders – translating granular operational detail into clear, decision-ready financial insight. It will suit a finance leader who is energized by the details and equally effective leading a team and doing the work.

The role operates in a demanding, high-accountability setting defined by close, frequent engagement with the sponsor and senior stakeholders. It calls for someone who is self-sufficient, resilient, and effective in a fast-moving environment that periodically requires availability beyond standard business hours, including occasional evening and weekend engagement to meet reporting and analytical demands.

• Financial analysis & modeling. Personally build and maintain the models and analyses that drive decisions across labor, operating expense, and cost of sales – operating hands-on rather than solely directing the work of others.
• Team leadership & development. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three to five analysts, setting a high standard for quality and rigor while staying close to the underlying analysis.
• Sponsor & stakeholder partnership. Serve as a primary finance point of contact for the company’s institutional investor, providing detailed, timely financial information and engaging productively at a granular level of operational and financial detail.
• Cost & labor management. Manage and analyze labor, operating expense, and cost of sales, bringing deep command of the operational drivers behind the numbers.
• Site & operations partnership. Partner constructively with site and operating leaders to understand cost drivers and evaluate expenses – building trust and genuine curiosity about the business rather than simply challenging spend.
• Reporting & forecasting rigor. Produce accurate, decision-ready reporting and analysis independently, meeting the pace and precision the business and its investor require, including on time-sensitive requests.
• Systems & process improvement. Leverage the company’s financial systems and planning tools to improve the speed, accuracy, and repeatability of analysis, including supporting an ongoing planningsystem implementation.
• Extensive FP&A experience, typically 15+ years, with the depth to lead complex analysis independently. High-caliber candidates earlier in that range will be considered where the requisite capability and capacity are clearly evident.
• A genuinely hands-on orientation – comfort personally building models and performing detailed quantitative analysis, not solely leading a team or reviewing others’ work.
• Strong analytical horsepower and quantitative fluency, with command of granular operational and financial detail.
• Experience within private equity–backed businesses, or other environments involving close, detailed financial scrutiny.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, together with experience across ERP systems and data extraction (S/4HANA experience valued) and financial planning tools.
• The ability to operate self-sufficiently, including on time-sensitive and after-hours requests, while developing and supporting a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships with operating and site leaders across a multi-site footprint.
• An even-keeled, low-ego, and collaborative style, with the resilience to thrive amid constant, detailed engagement and to receive feedback constructively.
• Multi-site or operationally intensive industry experience, with a track record of building relationships with site-level leaders.
• Experience with Adaptive Planning and Power BI.
• Familiarity with labor- and operations-heavy cost structures and the drivers behind them.
• A relevant degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related discipline; an advanced degree or relevant certification is a plus.