Director of Financial Planning & Analysis - RCO (PLANO)

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Reporting to the Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, the Director, FP&A provides strategic and financial planning support to the Ribbon's mission, goals and objectives.  The position is responsible for creating and implementing a robust budget and financial planning function for the assigned operating segment.  The role will lead efforts to leverage technology to enhance the budget and planning process, with a strong focus on enhancing reporting and data analysis.

The role will lead a small team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes for the assigned operating segment, including annual budgets, monthly performance reports, and financial modeling for the business outlook and long-range plan.
• Analyze complex financial and operational data, provide accurate and timely recommendations to company leadership for decision making.
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including revenue, cost of sales, expenses, capital expenditures and SaaS based KPIs; analyze and report on financial and operating trends and explain causes of variances and offer recommendations to minimize those variances.
• Collaborate with IT management in the selection, development, implementation, maintenance, and training of business intelligence tools across the company.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and departmental leaders to develop and implement recommendations for ongoing and annual planning processes.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A processes across multiple functions, including forecasting, scenario planning, variance analysis and management reporting.
• Maintain dashboards of key performance metrics and monitor business performance.
• Structure, build, and maintain complex financial and decision-making models to develop meaningful business insights.
• Support department tracking of budgets and coordinate with key stakeholders to actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning and coordinate ad hoc requests from Business Unit leadership.
• Identify and drive cross-functional initiatives to improve process, systems, and automation to enable efficiency and help the business scale.
• Supporting Sarbanes-Oxley activities, including the coordination of worldwide compliance of departmental reviews of monthly operating expenses and preparation of budget to actual variance analysis.

Experience:

• 10+ years of directly applicable experience with time spent in FP&A within a public, fast growth, technology company.
• Ideal candidates will possess an MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Highly skilled with Excel spreadsheet financial models, and PowerPoint presentation
• Strong critical thinking skills – you should be comfortable with financial modeling and working with large amounts of data.
• Superior communication skills - verbal, written & presentation skills with ability to transition seamlessly from complex analyses to simple/precise business implications
• Strong customer service focus with a sense of urgency and excellent follow through
• Proven ability to lead cross functionally.
• Superb analytical/quantitative and communication skills and strong executive presence
• Experience with Oracle, Hyperion and Planful, a plus
• CPA Preferred

Please Note:

'All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, on the basis of disability, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.'

US Citizens and all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.