Financial Planning & Analysis Director

JOB SUMMARY:
The Financial Planning and Analysis Director will partner with senior Finance and Accounting leadership to oversee all Business Unit planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes; analyze cost management and savings opportunities; perform cost/benefit analysis; prepare consolidated budget, forecast, and related variance analyses. Provide strategic planning and analysis, i.e., long term capitalization plan and analysis of business strategies. Support Business Unit executive management with financial analysis.

• Leads Division and Corporate financial planning and budgeting process, including Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow processes.
• Leads and coordinates monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting at the Business Unit and Corporate level for financial consolidation purposes.
• Participates in the strategic planning process for the business by designing, maintaining and utilizing financial models and metrics to support and analyze achievement of policy deployment and strategic actions.
• Understands and communicates how commercial decisions impact financial results of the Business Unit and utilizes financial tools to calculate and monitor key business targets, including revenue, direct costs, indirect costs, gross margin and EBITDA as well as asset metrics including ROIC, ROACE and EVA.
• Anticipates and identifies key variables that predict business performance and recommends process improvements based on data analysis to reduce costs, streamline work processes, and improve profitability.
• Prepares presentations for leadership reviews as well as budget, forecast and monthly review meetings.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE:

• BS Degree in Accounting/ Finance or equivalent work experience at the professional level.
• 5 or more year’s progressive experience in an accounting or controlling function within a service or facilities management environment.
• Advanced knowledge of Adaptive Planning and Oracle Fusion software.
• Knowledge of GAAP, financial consolidation systems (Adaptive Planning, Hyperion, Cognos, etc.) and internal control framework.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

• Strong financial analytical and problem solving skills and comfortable working within challenging and dynamic environments.
• Proven ability to perform with a high degree of accuracy under tight deadlines and to manage multiple projects.
• Collaborative skills, including strong communication ability, able to build strong networks in the organization, willingness and ability to work well with others, and ability to influence others.
• Ability to identify roadblocks to a process and to develop a strategy to effectively circumvent them.
• Solutions oriented – ability to quickly assess a situation and offer alternatives with related risks and rewards.
• Strong change agent with the ability to show the impact of change, minimize the impact and onboard effectively.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service to multiple customers with competing priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Strong initiative, able to work independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

ENVIRONMENT:
Position based at USA’s corporate office in Roswell, GA.

DISCLAIMER:
All the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

U.S. Security Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minorities/Females/Vets/Disabled)
Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status. We support and obey laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. U.S. Security Associates fully considers all qualified applicants including those with a criminal history.