VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Summary:

The Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (VP, FP&A) will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and serve as a key member of the Finance leadership team for an approximately $800 million global manufacturing organization operating across 24 sites.

This role comes at a critical point in the Company’s evolution following a significant merger that brought together two organizations consisting of 14 sites and 10 sites, respectively. The VP, FP&A will play a central leadership role in integrating the two organizations, establishing a common financial operating model, and building a best-in-class Finance organization for the combined company.

Rather than simply adopting the processes of one legacy organization, this leader will assess the capabilities, processes, systems, talent, and best practices of both companies and determine the optimal approach for the newly combined organization. The VP will lead the standardization and continuous improvement of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, demand planning, performance management, and related processes across all 24 locations.

The VP, FP&A will have global responsibility for Financial Planning & Analysis and Demand Planning and will lead a team with three direct reports: two FP&A Directors and a Demand Planning Manager.

The successful candidate will be a highly capable finance executive who combines strong financial and analytical expertise with demonstrated leadership in organizational transformation, business integration, and change management. This individual must be able to move seamlessly between enterprise-level strategy and detailed operational execution, partnering with senior leadership and site teams to improve performance, increase accountability, and support profitable growth.

The VP, FP&A will help transform Finance into a best-in-class organization that provides timely insights, challenges the business constructively, drives accountability, and plays an active role in developing and executing the Company’s strategy.

Success in this role requires a leader who operates with integrity, urgency, practicality, and accountability; develops strong teams; challenges the status quo; and can influence leaders throughout the organization.

The role will operate within Tecomet’s principles of continuous improvement, customer-driven innovation, and a win-first culture while delivering the Company’s financial and operational performance objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Post-Merger Integration and Finance Transformation

• Lead the financial integration of the two legacy organizations across the Company's 24 sites, developing a common operating model for FP&A, Demand Planning, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• Evaluate the processes, systems, tools, organizational capabilities, and best practices of both legacy companies and determine the optimal processes for the combined organization, leveraging the strongest capabilities from each.
• Develop and execute a Finance integration roadmap that establishes clear priorities, milestones, ownership, and performance expectations.
• Drive standardization across sites while recognizing where business requirements warrant appropriate flexibility.
• Establish common financial definitions, reporting standards, calendars, assumptions, methodologies, and performance metrics across the organization.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve Finance processes and reduce manual or non-value-added work.
• Serve as a senior change leader, building alignment across corporate functions, business leaders, and site leadership while successfully navigating organizational change.

Global Financial Planning & Analysis

• Lead the global FP&A organization and establish a best-in-class budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business partnership capability.
• Own the Company's annual operating plan, long-range financial plan, periodic forecasting processes, and financial outlook driving continuous improvement in these processes.
• Establish forecasting disciplines that improve accuracy, identify risks and opportunities early, and enable management to take timely corrective actions.
• Lead consolidated financial analysis and provide the CFO, CEO, senior leadership team, Board, lenders, and other stakeholders with clear insights into financial performance, trends, risks, opportunities, and outlook.
• Develop and maintain meaningful financial and operational KPIs that drive action, accountability, profitability, cash generation, and operational improvement.
• Build effective performance management processes that clearly connect operational drivers to financial results.
• Transform financial and operational data into actionable insights and recommendations that improve revenue growth, profitability, working capital, cash flow, and return on investment.
• Partner with business and site leaders to understand performance drivers, identify gaps to plan, and establish measurable corrective actions.

Global Demand Planning

• Provide executive leadership and oversight for the Company's Demand Planning function and strengthen the integration between commercial demand, operations, supply chain, and financial planning.
• Establish a consistent global demand planning process that improves forecast accuracy and provides greater visibility into future revenue and capacity requirements.
• Ensure demand forecasts are appropriately connected to financial forecasts, production planning, inventory requirements, capacity decisions, and the broader Sales & Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning process.
• Develop performance measures for forecast accuracy, bias, and other relevant demand-planning metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Commercial, Operations, and Supply Chain leadership to improve visibility into customer demand, revenue risks and opportunities, backlog, capacity constraints, and inventory requirements.

Business Partnership and Strategic Leadership

• Serve as a trusted strategic and financial partner to the CFO, executive leadership team, business leaders, and site leadership.
• Help develop, evaluate, and drive the strategic direction of the Company through strong financial analysis, scenario modeling, and fact-based recommendations.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and provide an independent financial perspective on significant business decisions.
• Support evaluation of organic growth opportunities, capital investments, capacity decisions, pricing initiatives, operational improvements, restructuring opportunities, and other strategic initiatives.
• Develop financial models and scenario analyses that enable management to understand alternatives, risks, returns, and sensitivities.
• Promote a culture of fact-based decision-making and financial accountability throughout the organization.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Synergy Realization

• Support the evaluation of potential acquisition opportunities, including financial analysis, modeling, due diligence, valuation support, and assessment of strategic and financial implications.
• Identify and quantify revenue, cost, working-capital, and operational synergies associated with acquisitions and integration activities.
• Partner with functional and business leaders to establish detailed synergy realization plans with clear owners, timing, financial impact, and accountability.
• Establish processes to track merger-related commitments and synergy realization against approved business cases.
• Support future acquisition integrations by applying lessons learned and building repeatable Finance integration processes.

Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain a high-performing global team, including direct leadership of two FP&A Directors and the Demand Planning Manager.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, objectives, and accountability throughout the organization.
• Assess organizational capabilities and develop the structure, talent, tools, and competencies necessary to support the Company's future growth.
• Build strong succession plans and develop Finance talent capable of taking on broader leadership responsibilities.
• Create a culture focused on business partnership, continuous improvement, analytical rigor, accountability, collaboration, and results.
• Develop strong relationships across corporate functions and the 24-site manufacturing network and influence effectively without relying solely on formal authority.

Systems, Data, and Process Improvement

• Lead Finance initiatives focused on systems, reporting tools, data quality, automation, and analytical capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to rationalize or integrate legacy systems and reporting processes following the merger.
• Partner with IT and other functions to improve the Company's financial data architecture, reporting capabilities, and management information.
• Increase automation and self-service analytics while reducing manual reporting, reconciliation, and spreadsheet dependency.
• Establish scalable processes and tools capable of supporting continued organic and acquisitive growth.
• Perform other duties and lead special projects as required or assigned by the CFO.

Qualification Requirements

Educational/Training Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field required.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.
• CPA, CMA, or similar professional certification preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive Finance and FP&A experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading FP&A within a complex, multi-site organization of meaningful scale.
• Strong manufacturing experience highly preferred, including understanding of manufacturing economics, standard costing, inventory, operational variances, productivity, capacity, and working capital.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational transformation, process standardization, and change across multiple locations or business units.
• Significant experience with mergers, acquisitions, and post-merger integration strongly preferred.
• Experience integrating organizations with different processes, cultures, systems, and ways of working and successfully creating a common operating model.
• Experience leading or working closely with Cost Accounting and Demand Planning / S&OP processes strongly preferred.
• Experience operating within a Private Equity portfolio company preferred.
• Experience working within a dynamic, rapidly changing, and results-oriented environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Deep understanding of what best-in-class FP&A, Demand Planning, and financial business partnership capabilities look like in a complex manufacturing organization.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate effectively with the CFO, CEO, Board, lenders, senior executives, operating leaders, and Finance teams.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale organizational and process transformation while maintaining business continuity and delivering near-term results.
• Strong integration mindset with the ability to objectively evaluate different legacy practices, retain what works best, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and create improved processes for the combined organization.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define problems, identify key business drivers, analyze complex information, draw sound conclusions, and recommend practical actions.
• Strong understanding of the relationships among commercial demand, operational performance, manufacturing costs, inventory, financial forecasting, and cash flow.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, concise, actionable insights.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and attention to detail.
• Strong leadership and talent-development capabilities with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to drive accountability across an organization and influence leaders outside of the direct reporting structure.
• Ability to challenge the status quo constructively and introduce new approaches while building organizational alignment and support.
• Strong project-management and change-management skills with an ability to manage multiple priorities and meet business-critical deadlines.
• High degree of integrity, accountability, urgency, intellectual curiosity, and business judgment.
• Ability to build and deliver effective executive-level presentations and communicate a clear financial narrative.
• Demonstrated willingness to take ownership of issues beyond formal job responsibilities and drive them through resolution.
• Experience implementing or optimizing financial planning systems, ERP platforms, business intelligence tools, and automation capabilities strongly preferred.

Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer / Protected Veterans / Disabilities / Drug Free Workplace

Other Requirements

Mental Requirements:

The work environment is representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee could be required to stand. The employee could frequently be required to walk; use hand to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee could be required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee could occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job could include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA):

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.