Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Georgia.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the organization-wide Annual Operating Plan, rolling forecast, and multi-year long-range strategy.

• Direct the monthly and quarterly planning cycles, forecast discussions, variance analysis, and business reviews each month.

• Develop performance packages that connect business drivers to financial outcomes.

• Sustain forecasting assumptions, documentation, and controls.

• Act as a senior finance partner to leaders in commercial, operations, supply chain, sourcing, and marketing.

• Collaborate with Accounting to align forecasts with GAAP results, landed costs, freight, and tariff accounting.

• Enhance visibility into pricing, revenue, profitability, product economics, trade spending, advertising ROI, and returns on growth investments.

• Boost inventory productivity, freight and fulfillment economics, procurement decisions, cost-to-serve visibility, and working capital efficiency.

• Mentor, lead, and develop the Manager of FP&A.

• Construct financial models for pricing, promotions, assortment, inventory, sourcing, and capital investment decisions.

• Assess profitability across retail, e-commerce, marketplace, B2B, and direct-to-consumer channels.

• Collaborate with the executive team to convert strategy into multi-year financial objectives and actionable initiatives.

• Advocate for automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and practical application of AI.

• Enhance the utilization of NetSuite, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, ADP, and related tools.

• Maintain definitions of KPIs and reporting frameworks.

• Oversee planning, forecasting, long-range strategy, cash models, and materials for executives and the board.

• Prioritize tasks across competing demands and automate, simplify, or decline low-value work.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive finance leadership experience.

• Proficiency in translating complex analyses into clear recommendations and executive-level communication.

• Proven record of leading through influence in a highly cross-functional environment.

• Strong judgment, attention to detail, problem-solving capabilities, and stakeholder management skills.

• An enterprise mindset, intellectual curiosity, and commercial orientation.

• Hands-on leadership style and comfort in working with a lean team.

• A direct and transparent approach, with the ability to challenge constructively while maintaining trust.

• A commitment to developing personnel, enhancing accountability, and building an effective finance function.

• Preferred experience in consumer products, furniture, e-commerce, wholesale, manufacturing, distribution, retail supply chain, or other inventory-intensive sectors.

• Preferred experience with multi-channel business models, global supply chains and logistics, and environments with institutional or private equity ownership.

• Familiarity with NetSuite or similar ERP systems, planning tools, business intelligence, automation, and practical use of AI in finance and accounting is preferred.

• An MBA or other graduate degree is preferred but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Broad visibility and significant influence.

• Opportunity to develop scalable FP&A capabilities.

• Direct engagement with senior leaders on growth, profitability, cash flow, and enterprise performance decisions.