Creation Technologies · 6 hours ago
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expCreation Technologies is a company committed to passion and customer focus. The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will oversee standard costing accuracy and lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance business performance, partnering closely with various departments to drive financial insights and improvements.
LogisticsManufacturingSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Serve as an objective financial steward, with an enterprise perspective, who enables effective decision making that creates value by identifying areas of financial underperformance to help turn them into opportunities to drive revenue growth, margin improvement and cost savings
Execute, maintain, and continuously improve annual standard costing process. Work with Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering to ensure purchase price variance, material usage variance, direct labor variances and overhead variances and absorption concepts are understood and evaluated for accuracy
Drive process improvements by identifying need for change, proactively gathering requirements, designing, developing, and implementing change
Provide leadership and support to Global FP&A projects supporting overall process improvements and standardization as required
Standardize and harmonize company’s cost pools and costing processes globally where possible. Ensure structure is optimized for tax and statutory purposes where applicable
Be the financial owner for the global cost and quoting policies
Support and improve variance reporting, cost-to-quote process, and KPI’s with an operational lens including working with IT to make system updates where needed
Prepare financial reviews, including coordinating activities across functions, businesses, and groups, developing a thorough understanding of the results (P&L, Balance Sheet and Free Cash Flow) and providing insights on trends
Identify and communicate financial/operational trends that represent a significant impact to the business and possible “what if” scenarios
Develop financial forecasts and support long-range planning processes with BU partners and Regional/Enterprise teams
Provide support to BU teams in matters of cost, variance analysis, and budget including preparing analytics impacting materials and labor to influence manufacturing operational process improvements
Understand customer profiles and market dynamics impacting pricing of products
Partner with other finance disciplines to enable business performance: controllership, analytics, systems, and continuous improvement
May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
10+ years of experience in an FP&A or a related accounting role
5+ years of planning, executing, and leading projects
Experience in a global manufacturing and supply chain environment
Standard costing environment required
Experience working with a SaaS CPM Solution such as Adaptive Planning, Hyperion, etc
Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Deep understanding of financial budgeting and forecasting concepts and modeling
A continuous improvement mindset
Strong results orientation with a track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact successfully with all levels of management
Professional executive presence and poise; drives business results through clear communication and collaboration
A team player who is collaborative and receptive to ideas from others and works effectively across functions to identify and resolve critical issues
A creative, yet pragmatic, problem solver who is hands-on as and detail oriented
High level of integrity, attend to detail and dependability with a strong sense of urgency
Preferred
CPA and/or MBA preferred
Oracle experience a plus
Company
Creation Technologies
Creation Technologies provides start-to-finish manufacturing and supply chain solutions to a global clientele.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$68.23MKey Investors
Birch Hill Equity Partners
2019-07-17Acquired
2014-03-20Series Unknown· $0.26M
2013-06-27Series Unknown· $0.11M
Leadership Team
Farid Anani
VP / Global Manufacturing Engineering
Jon Hanson
VP GM
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