We are is seeking a highly strategic, forward-thinking, and technology-enabled leader to serve as Managing Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).

Job Profile Summary:

This senior leadership level position is responsible for leading financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, strategic decision support, financial systems optimization, and finance transformation initiatives across the organization.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted strategic advisor to executive management, providing forward-looking insights, recommendations, and decision support that enhance organizational performance and drive long-term value creation.

This role is expected to modernize the FP&A function through automation, advanced analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), predictive modeling, and enhanced reporting capabilities. The Managing Director will lead a team responsible for planning, analytics, reporting, and business intelligence.

Reports To: Vice President, Finance

Job Description and Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Partnership & Advisory Services

Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to management, providing financial leadership, actionable insights, and decision support that drive growth, profitability, operational excellence, and long-term enterprise value.

2. Financial Planning & Analysis

Lead the Company's budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, actual results analysis, and enterprise performance management reporting processes.
Direct and develop financial planning governance, enterprise reporting, and Board reporting.
Identify and evaluate key business drivers, risks, opportunities, trends, and performance against financial and operational objectives.
Support enterprise performance metrics, analytics, and decision-support capabilities.
Lead FP&A modernization through financial systems, automation, AI, and data governance.
Oversee international cost-share budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and billing.

3. Business Intelligence & Decision Support

Lead business intelligence and analytics capabilities that deliver actionable insights, enhance performance visibility, and support strategic decision-making.
Oversee financial models, business cases, investment analyses, dashboards, and scenario planning supporting key organizational initiatives and decisions.

4. Leadership & Talent Development

Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and results.

Leadership Expectations: The ideal candidate will be recognized as:

A strategic thinker and trusted advisor.

A finance transformation business leader.

An exceptional communicator and collaborative enterprise leader.

A developer of high-performing teams.

An intellectually curious problem solver.

Required and Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related discipline.
Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in FP&A, strategic finance, business intelligence, analytics, or related functions; including people leadership and management experience.
MBA, CPA, CFA, CMA, or similar professional designation preferred.
Experience partnering with executive leadership teams.
Experience with Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning a plus.
Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.

Work Arrangement: Full-time, in-office (5 days per week) with occasional work-from-home flexibility. The office address is 6201 N 24th Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona 85016.