What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis position at Milacron?
Milacron is looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Leader to join our team in Batavia, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati). In this position, you will be responsible for leading the company’s global planning, forecasting, and decision-support function, shaping the financial narrative, and partnering with leadership to drive performance and strategic decisions.
Work You’ll Do
Must have:
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.
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The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@milacron.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Work You’ll Do
- Act as a strategic business partner to the CFO and Operating Leadership Team, using forward-looking analytics to drive business performance.
- Translate planning, forecasting, and variance results into actionable insights across margin, pricing, cost structure, and working capital.
- Own the annual operating plan, quarterly re-forecasts, monthly outlooks, and three-year long-range plan.
- Develop and maintain driver-based financial models linking operational assumptions to revenue, margin, cash flow, and capital outcomes.
- Establish disciplined planning and forecasting processes with clear assumptions and forward-looking variance analysis.
- Lead Bain Capital sponsor and board reporting, including performance tracking, value creation plan updates, KPI dashboards, and financial narratives.
- Anticipate stakeholder questions and proactively build analyses and models to address them.
- Support lender reporting and covenant compliance in collaboration with Controller and Treasury teams.
- Lead financial modeling and analytics for M&A, including diligence, quality of earnings, and synergy modeling.
- Develop post-acquisition integration tracking frameworks to measure deal performance.
- Drive FP&A systems transformation, including planning, consolidation, and BI tools (e.g., OneStream, Power BI).
- Partner with IT and Finance to improve data architecture, reporting automation, and system scalability.
- Lead and develop the corporate FP&A team and India COE, building a high-performing, insight-driven organization.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Controller, Tax, Treasury, Commercial Finance, and Operations Finance to ensure a single source of financial truth.
Must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 12 years of progressive finance experience with significant focus in FP&A, including leadership of a function or major sub-function.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing FP&A teams.
- Strong track record of partnering with commercial and operational leaders to drive measurable performance improvement.
- Experience owning planning processes including annual operating plan, forecasts, and long-range planning.
- Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including driver-based modeling.
- Experience supporting M&A activities, including modeling, diligence, and integration tracking.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to develop executive-level and sponsor-ready financial narratives.
- Experience with enterprise planning, BI, or reporting tools and driving transformation initiatives.
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Experience in a private equity-backed or sponsor-owned environment.
- Industrial manufacturing, capital equipment, or related industry experience.
- Experience leading enterprise FP&A system implementations (e.g., OneStream).
- Exposure to global multi-plant operations and international finance structures.
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.
Eeo
The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@milacron.com. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.