Location: VA - Reston
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Finance & Business Partnership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team.
- Translate corporate strategy into financial plans, operating targets, and performance metrics.
- Provide actionable insights regarding growth opportunities, operating efficiencies, profitability enhancement, and capital allocation.
- Support strategic initiatives, business cases, investment decisions, and transformation efforts across the company.
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Own and lead the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasting process, and long-range financial planning process.
- Implement and maintain driver-based forecasting models covering revenue, expenses, margins, EBITDA, cash flow, and capital expenditures.
- Develop scenario-planning analyses to evaluate risks, opportunities, and strategic alternatives.
- Lead a rolling forecast process that improves visibility into future performance and cash requirements.
Performance Management & Analytics
- Analyze financial and operational performance trends and identify key business drivers.
- Develop and maintain product-line P&Ls and any related financial reporting disclosures.
- Establish enterprise KPI frameworks, dashboards, and management reporting processes.
- Deliver timely and insightful performance reviews for executive leadership and business unit leaders.
- Drive accountability through rigorous variance analysis and performance monitoring
Executive, Board & Investor Support
- Prepare financial materials and presentations for Board meetings, executive reviews, earnings support activities, and investor-related discussions.
- Partner with Investor Relations and other finance leaders to ensure consistency and accuracy of financial messaging.
- Present complex financial information in a concise, business-oriented manner.
Corporate Development & Capital Allocation
- Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships, and investment analyses.
- Lead financial due diligence, valuation support, integration planning, and pro forma analysis.
- Evaluate resource allocation decisions to maximize shareholder value.
Systems, Process & Transformation Leadership
- Drive continuous improvement of planning, reporting, and forecasting processes.
- Lead the optimization and evolution of FP&A technology, reporting, and business intelligence tools.
- Champion automation, data quality, and enhanced financial visibility across the organization.
- Partner with Accounting, Sales Operations, Product, Technology, Human Resources, and Commercial leaders to improve enterprise decision-making.
Team Leadership
- Build, develop, and retain a high-performing FP&A organization.
- Establish a culture of accountability, collaboration, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and develop finance talent while creating succession depth and organizational capability.
- Promote a forward-looking, data-driven approach to finance leadership.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or related disciplines.
- Significant leadership experience within a publicly traded, multinational organization.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and executive reporting processes.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, performance analytics, and business partnering.
- Experience presenting to executive leadership teams and Boards of Directors.
- Deep understanding of GAAP, financial statements, cash flow management, and performance metrics.
Preferred
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credential.
- Experience in technology, media, analytics, information services, SaaS, or data-driven businesses.
- Experience supporting public-company earnings processes and investor communications.
- Experience with Adaptive Planning, Workday, ERP systems, and modern business intelligence platforms.
- Salary: $240k-$275k, commensurate with experience
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic thinking and business acumen
- Executive presence and communication
- Analytical problem-solving
- Cross-functional influence
- Results orientation and accountability
- Change leadership and process improvement
- Talent development and team building
- High integrity and sound judgment
- We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- Additional Locations: NY - NYC (Penn)
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