Director Financial Planning & Analysis Resume

SUMMARY

Multi - faceted Vice President Finance with specialized expertise in various aspects of finance, business analytics, and reporting.
Astute strategist that excels in partnering with the executive team to present reports while meeting business and financial objectives.
Excels in combining strategic and tactical thinking while providing financial oversight to planning, forecasting, and analytics.
Instrumental in presenting financial results to the executive team, streamlining financial processes, introducing process improvements, implementing technology solutions, and supporting business analysis for budgets and long-term planning.
Proven track record of expertly driving financial and modeling processes, analyzing variances, influencing business decision-making through reliable analytics, and motivating teams.
Highly adept at developing consistent and timely reporting, analysis, and delivery of business results that align with strategic objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Director Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities:

Improved monthly reporting process by streamlining the preparation and variance analysis process.
Spearheaded the implementation of a forecasting tool, Adaptive, to move multiple Excel budgeting/forecasting sheets, which forecasted within 1% of variance.
Established a collaboration with revenue team that aided in identifying areas that needed additional attention, which improved reporting and analysis capabilities.
Maintained accountability for managing the global budget, financial forecast, and long-term strategic plan using sound business acumen.
Implemented weekly management KPIs to provide understanding of fundamental business drivers and business trends.
Engaged with the leadership team to track financial progress towards identified milestones and goals.
Played a key role in implementing change management strategy to ensure achievement of targets.

Confidential

Director of Finance

Responsibilities:

Played a key role in driving and improving business growth and profitability while increasing margin by 310 basis points over 3 years by leveraging strategic financial planning.
Prepared and presented monthly financial results to the Board of Directors and executive management team, which included partnering with the Interim CFO on various financial and strategic initiatives.
Charged with oversight of the global budget and long-term strategic global planning process.
Provided thought leadership to key business leaders in business decision-making.
Spearheaded the development of global consolidation reports to streamline current reporting requirements, which significantly enhanced business decision-making.
Implemented weekly management KPIs including sales, margin performance, growth, and on-time delivery through a weekly flash report.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Created monthly Board of Directors packets to support business decision-making processes.
Developed monthly accruals and monthly actual vs. budget reports for budget managers.