What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis position at Consultative Search Group?
A global entertainment and media organization is hiring a senior finance leader to strengthen corporate planning, cost discipline, and decision support across a complex, multi-business operating environment.
Position Summary
The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as the lead finance partner for corporate departments, translating strategic priorities into disciplined budgets, forecasts, controls, and performance insight. The role combines executive partnership with hands-on ownership of operating expense, capital expenditure, vendor-level analysis, and recurring reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with department heads and senior leaders to align operating plans, resource decisions, and financial priorities.
- Lead the annual corporate budgeting process and maintain recurring forecasts for operating and capital expenditures.
- Deliver monthly departmental reporting, variance analysis, and vendor-level reconciliations against budget and prior periods.
- Apply a zero-based budgeting mindset to challenge spending assumptions, evaluate vendor relationships, and identify margin-improvement opportunities.
- Build and maintain accurate financial models, statements, projections, and scenario analyses.
- Partner with Corporate Accounting to improve the accuracy and timeliness of close-related and management reporting.
- Implement and reinforce financial controls covering budgets, payments, cash management, and departmental spending.
- Prepare clear financial reporting and analysis for senior management, investors, and lenders.
- Develop and deploy business-intelligence tools that improve visibility, forecasting, and decision support.
- Lead ad hoc strategic analyses and support merger-integration projects as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- At least seven years of experience in financial planning and analysis or a closely comparable finance leadership role.
- Demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, modeling, and management reporting.
- Ability to analyze substantial financial datasets and produce accurate reports, statements, and projections.
- Financial-management experience establishing policies, procedures, and controls.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex financial concepts to senior leaders.
- Demonstrated leadership, managerial capability, organization, and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within a large, global, or multi-business organization.
- Experience using or managing NetSuite, OneStream, or comparable accounting and planning platforms.
- Experience developing business-intelligence tools or improving forecast and reporting processes.
- Experience supporting merger-integration or other enterprise finance initiatives.
- Entertainment, media, professional-services, or another complex stakeholder-driven operating environment.
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