The Associate Director will lead the Global Financial Planning & Analysis Center of Excellence (FP&A COE) within Commercial Controllership, managing a team of four employees. The role advances consistent standards, processes, tools, and finance capabilities that enable timely, informed decisions across global commercial finance.
Responsibilities:
Lead the COE, team, and operating model
- Lead, coach, and develop four employees while setting priorities across the COE’s four pillars.
- Define preparation, review, approval, and decision responsibilities across Commercial Controllership and the LBE and Plan/LRP teams.
- Align priorities and resolve issues with planning, forecasting, SG&A, business-unit FP&A, shared services, procurement, and HR partners.
Standardize practices and advance technology
- Develop and drive adoption of standard procedures, planning guidance, reporting templates, mock books, and presentation standards.
- Oversee SG&A, headcount, net sales, and related reporting guidance and deliverables across all planning cycles while establishing consistent methodologies across global commercial.
- Lead automation and AI initiatives using tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and Wdesk.
- Maintain COE platforms and tools and promote adoption across the finance community.
Drive financial insight and business support
- Oversee COE deliverables for net sales, weekly trends, sales incentives, SG&A, distribution margin, and post-execution reclassifications.
- Ensure quality and accuracy of reconciliations, royalty true-ups, standard cost reconciliations, and planning data verification.
- Lead technical analyses, including exchange adjustments and industry fee calculations, with relevant finance partners.
Build the team and broader finance capability
- Lead quarterly FP&A forums and finance learning and development programs.
- Strengthen onboarding through consistent documentation and training on key FP&A topics.