Executive Director, Corporate FP&A

Role Overview

The Corporate FP&A Executive Director reports to the Chief Financial Officer and leads the company's global FP&A agenda, including long-range planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, performance management, strategic decision support, management reporting, and enterprise performance monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead long-range planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning; ensure alignment of strategic, operational, and financial plans.


• Anticipate in-year decisions; identify risks/opportunities; evaluate trade-offs and support dynamic resource reallocation.


• Provide strategic decision support to CFO, executive leadership, and Board on profitability, cash flow, capital allocation, investment prioritization, strategic planning, M&A support, and enterprise performance.


• Develop management reporting, KPI frameworks, dashboards, driver-based analysis, and business review materials.


• Champion predictive analytics, AI-enabled forecasting, scenario modeling, cost analytics, profitability improvement, and data-driven insights.


• Lead FP&A technology roadmap; partner with Finance/IT/business to scale decision-support tools and analytics products.


• Build, mentor, and develop a global FP&A team.


• Establish governance over planning assumptions, data quality, analytics outputs, and recurring decision-support processes.


• Partner cross-functionally to monitor leading indicators and drive corrective actions.


• Provide specialist R&D finance support (pipeline strategy through therapeutic area investment decisions), including evaluating portfolio cost/value/risk/return.


• Ensure disciplined cost management, compliance with finance standards, and adherence to SOX and FCF control requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required (Finance/Econ/Business/Accounting or related quantitative); MBA/CFA/CPA preferred; Lean/Ag preferred.


• 10–15 years progressive finance/FP&A, including leading/managing teams; strategic decision support to CFO/C-suite; long-range planning, profitability improvement, capital efficiency, investment evaluation, feasibility studies, M&A support.


• Advanced enterprise financial systems proficiency (ERP, BI, advanced FP&A systems); strong knowledge of predictive analytics, AI/ML forecasting, scenario modeling, data visualization; ability to translate digital tech into finance process improvements.


• English required.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $294,483–$386,511 USD.


• Performance-based bonus and/or equity (eligible roles).


• Medical/dental/vision; 401(k) match vesting fully on day one; 8 weeks paid parental leave after 3 months; paid time off (vacation, personal, sick, floating holidays) and 11 company holidays; additional voluntary benefits including FSAs/HSAs, life/AD&D, short/long-term disability, legal assistance, and supplemental insurance; voluntary commuter benefits, family planning/care resources, well-being initiatives, and peer-to-peer recognition.