Director of FP&A POST NUMBER: 483128
Our client is a large multi-national manufacturing company. They are looking for a Director of FP&A to join their team!
Why Work Here
- Fantastic leader and mentor
- Amazing culture with room for advancement
- Excellent long term opportunities
- Excellent total compensation plan
- Excellent benefits
- Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range planning processes for the service business.
- Develop robust revenue, margin, cost, and headcount forecasts based on operational and commercial drivers.
- Translate business strategies into financial plans with clear assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
- Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for service growth, pricing, labor utilization, and investment decisions.
- Performance Management & Analysis
- Deliver timely and accurate monthly financial reporting and variance analysis for service revenue, gross margin, SG&A, and operating income.
- Analyze business performance by region, product line, customer segment, channel, and service offering.
- Monitor and explain key drivers of performance, including labor utilization, absorption, contract profitability, attach rates, response times, and service productivity.
- Provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve growth, profitability, and working capital performance.
- Business Partnering
- Serve as the senior finance partner to service leadership, operations, commercial teams, and Customer Success leaders, providing insight and challenge on strategic priorities, business performance, and investment decisions.
- Lead financial evaluation of pricing strategies, contract renewals, service program design, and capital or operating investments to support sustainable growth and margin expansion.
- Provide proactive challenge and decision support to business leaders by identifying risks, opportunities, and trade-offs across growth, productivity, service delivery, and resource allocation.
- Lead cross-functional evaluation of new service offerings, business models, and transformation initiatives that improve service coverage, utilization, fulfillment, cost efficiency, and customer value.
- Sponsor finance and business transformation initiatives across Finance, including enhancements to processes, reporting, operating metrics, and decision frameworks that support growth, profitability, and scalability.
- Management Reporting & KPI Development
- Develop and enhance dashboards, reporting tools, and KPIs that improve transparency and decision-making.
- Standardize definitions and reporting for critical service metrics across the organization.
- Improve reporting automation and self-service analytics capabilities where possible.
- Present clear financial results and business insights to senior leadership.
- Process Improvement & Governance
- Strengthen forecasting accuracy, reporting discipline, and financial controls within the service business.
- Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, planning models, and reporting frameworks.
- Ensure alignment with corporate finance requirements, accounting policies, and internal controls.
- Support month-end close and planning processes in partnership with accounting and finance teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.
- CPA, CMA, CFA, or MBA preferred.
- 10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, commercial finance, or operational finance, including leadership responsibility.
- Experience in a service, aftermarket, field service, maintenance, or contract-based business strongly preferred.
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and business analysis skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience with ERP and planning/reporting systems.
- Executive presence with strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to influence senior leaders across functions and regions.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
- Preferred Experience in a Service Business
- Understanding of service revenue models such as time and materials, service contracts, preventive maintenance, subscriptions, and parts/service bundles.
- Experience analyzing operational KPIs such as technician utilization, service efficiency, contract margins, backlog, renewal rates, and service attach rates.
- Familiarity with pricing strategy, labor productivity, installed base analytics, and customer lifecycle economics.
$180,000 - $200,000 / year
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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.
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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.