Overview
Remote position.
Compensation starts at $140,000.
The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis leads budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance management processes. This role owns the organization-wide annual planning process, cash flow forecasting, performance monitoring, and management reporting. Reporting into the SVP of Strategy & Planning (rolling up into the CFO), the Director works closely with leaders across major departments to translate operating plans into measurable financial targets, identify risks and tradeoffs, and drive execution against the plan.
This role also manages the consolidated cash flow forecast model to support the organization’s short- to mid-term liquidity position and supports corporate finance activities to meet organizational goals. The Director will lead the FP&A function and manage associated direct reports, ensuring resources are effectively allocated to meet financial planning and analysis needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead the organization-wide annual planning and rolling forecast processes, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities with an efficient intake and analytics process for decision-making.
- Own the consolidated cash flow forecast model and outputs integrating portfolio performance, corporate overhead, liquidity, and scenario analysis; establish version control and documentation standards.
- Drive monthly and quarterly performance review and reporting, delivering reporting packages, variance analysis, narratives, insights, and strategic recommendations.
- Manage cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning in coordination with the CFO, Accounting, and Treasury activities; surface funding needs and covenant or compliance considerations early.
- Establish FP&A governance, including planning calendars, data sources, assumptions libraries, review gates, and approval thresholds to improve predictability and decision quality.
- Develop and maintain reporting dashboards and executive packages that provide a consistent view of performance, KPIs, and forward outlook; improve forecast accuracy and cycle time over time.
- Lead and develop the FP&A team by assigning work to match priorities, coaching analytical rigor, and ensuring high-quality deliverables on time in a lean environment focused on excellence and continuous improvement.
- Deliver board-ready materials and ad hoc decision support for major initiatives (e.g., portfolio prioritization, hiring plans, spend controls), synthesizing data into clear recommendations.
- Collaborate with senior management to evaluate financial performance and develop strategies to enhance profitability and growth.
- Ensure alignment of financial plans with corporate strategy, goals, and objectives.
- Support corporate finance transactions related to the corporate facility (amendments/expansions) or other strategic corporate transactions.
- Prepare and maintain projections of Financial Statements (simplified version) and estimate corporate credit facility covenant calculations.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field required.
- Advanced credential preferred: MBA, CPA, CFA, or similar.
- Experience: 10+ years of direct experience in FP&A, corporate or strategic finance within energy, infrastructure, or other capital-intensive industries.
- Leadership experience: 5+ years leading and developing teams.
Preferred Skills & Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to model organizational values (including behaviors such as flagging risks early, communicating directly, involving the right stakeholders early, and documenting and sharing learnings).
- Ability to translate strategy and goals into an executable FP&A roadmap with clear priorities, timelines, owners, and decision points; stops or deprioritizes low-value work.
- Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical capability, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, liquidity forecasting, and portfolio-level rollups.
- Cash-flow focused with required accounting/GAAP exposure and understanding.
- Strong business partnering skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders, resolve conflicts with data, and escalate risks with options and recommendations.
- Proven ability to build reliable processes, templates, and operating rhythms that improve forecast accuracy, shorten cycle times, and reduce rework.
- Executive-ready communication skills, including concise variance narratives, decision memos, and board-level materials.
- Working knowledge of renewable project and portfolio economics, including development spend, construction cash flows, operating budgets, and the linkage between revenue assumptions, financing, and returns.
- Proficiency in financial software and tools (e.g., Excel, ERP systems, financial planning software).
Location
Remote