What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Enterprise Forecasting & Strategic Modeling position at S&P Global Mobility?
About The Role
This leader will play a central role in the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and strategic evaluations. The Director will serve as a senior finance partner to executive leadership, helping translate business strategy, operating performance, and investment choices into a clear and credible financial outlook.
The ideal candidate combines deep financial modeling and planning expertise with strong business judgment, executive communication skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional processes in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment. This is a highly visible role with broad exposure to senior leadership, board-level materials, strategic initiatives, and investor-readiness support.
Responsibility And Impact
Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits that we provide to our employees, please click here.
What We're Looking For
Basic Required Qualifications:
It is the policy of Mobility to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Mobility will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- S&P Global has recently announced the intent to separate our Mobility Segment into a standalone public company.
- For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/mobility.
This leader will play a central role in the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and strategic evaluations. The Director will serve as a senior finance partner to executive leadership, helping translate business strategy, operating performance, and investment choices into a clear and credible financial outlook.
The ideal candidate combines deep financial modeling and planning expertise with strong business judgment, executive communication skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional processes in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment. This is a highly visible role with broad exposure to senior leadership, board-level materials, strategic initiatives, and investor-readiness support.
Responsibility And Impact
- Own the company’s integrated financial modeling architecture, including the core three-statement model and supporting frameworks used for forecasting, planning, and strategic decision-making.
- Lead the enterprise forecasting process across short-term outlooks, quarterly reforecasts, and long-range planning, including governance, calendar management, assumption setting, cross-functional alignment, consolidation, and executive review.
- Direct the development of multi-year financial plans that reflect corporate strategy, market dynamics, investment priorities, and key business assumptions.
- Establish and maintain governance over forecast assumptions, model controls, documentation standards, and analytical outputs to ensure rigor, consistency, and scalability.
- Partner with business unit finance leaders, functional leaders, and corporate stakeholders to align revenue, expense, headcount, cash flow, and investment assumptions across the enterprise.
- Lead scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to support capital allocation, strategic initiatives, operating tradeoff decisions, and enterprise performance management.
- Oversee the preparation of executive and board-level reporting materials, ensuring financial insights are clear, decision-oriented, and tied to key performance drivers and business priorities.
- Support strategic finance initiatives, including M&A evaluations, new business opportunities, investment cases, and other high-priority analytical workstreams.
- Serve as a senior advisor to FP&A leadership and executive stakeholders on forecast risks, planning assumptions, and financial implications of strategic decisions.
- Drive continuous improvement in forecasting processes, financial tools, management reporting, and analytical capabilities, including opportunities for automation and increased scalability.
- Build and enhance standardized reporting outputs and planning templates to support monthly business reviews, forecast cycles, and leadership discussions.
- Partner closely with Accounting, Treasury, Strategy, Corporate Development, and other finance teams to ensure consistency between forecast outputs, actual results, external reporting needs, and strategic planning activities.
- Lead, coach, and develop team members and/or provide leadership across cross-functional planning processes, helping elevate forecasting discipline and modeling capability across the FP&A organization.
- Mobility Global has a scalable, well-governed forecasting and strategic modeling capability that supports enterprise decision-making and long-range planning.
- Executive leadership operates from a clear, credible, and consistent view of financial performance, key drivers, risks, and strategic scenarios.
- Forecasts become increasingly accurate, actionable, and aligned with business performance, capital priorities, and resource allocation decisions.
- Board, executive, and investor-readiness materials are more forward-looking, analytically rigorous, and connected to the company’s strategic objectives.
- The FP&A organization benefits from stronger modeling standards, more consistent planning processes, improved reporting capabilities, and elevated team effectiveness
Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits that we provide to our employees, please click here.
What We're Looking For
Basic Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, financial modeling, or a related field.
- Deep experience leading budgeting, forecasting, reforecasting, and long-range planning processes in a complex business environment.
- Advanced financial modeling skills, including experience building and overseeing complex, dynamic models from the ground up.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning processes and influence senior stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment.
- Strong Excel skills and a track record of developing clear, reliable, and decision-useful financial models and planning outputs.
- Experience with financial planning or EPM tools such as Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Hyperion, or Planful.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Working knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting concepts.
- Proven ability to operate at both a strategic and detail-oriented level, balancing hands-on analytical rigor with broader enterprise leadership.
- MBA, CFA, or other advanced finance credential.
- Experience in data, SaaS, financial technology, information services, or other analytically intensive industries.
- Experience supporting executive leadership, board reporting, strategic finance initiatives, M&A analysis, or investor-related planning.
- Exposure to public-company readiness, separation or spin activity, IPO preparation, Form 10 support, or other transaction-related finance work.
- Experience leading FP&A process improvements, forecasting redesign, or planning system enhancements.
- Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Experience with Python or SQL for financial analysis, automation, or data extraction.
It is the policy of Mobility to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Mobility will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.