Senior Director, Corporate FP&A

Regal Rexnord•Rosemont, IL

About The Position

The Senior Director Corporate FP&A Leader will partner closely with the Regal Rexnord VP of FP&A, CFO and the Enterprise leadership team to support the Enterprise Strategic Planning, Annual Planning, and Forecasting process as well as provide key analyses and recommendations on both short term and long-term strategic initiatives, operational improvement projects and other business priorities. This role requires strong collaboration across the business as analyses, insights and recommendations are presented, including strong capability to influential leadership. This position will oversee a team, and will have strong dotted line influence to the Segment FP&A teams. We are looking for someone who can: build strong relationships within the organization; build a strong team and engage at all levels in the organization; take advantage of data & analytics to provide business insight and decision support, drive improvements, efficiencies, and harmonization in planning, reporting and finance operations; interpret technical accounting on a variety of routine and non-routine matters; provide financial insight on external markets and M&A opportunities. The role requires a “hands on” person who is detail oriented and results driven. This role will have significant visibility to executive leadership throughout the Company as well as have responsibly for Board of Director presentations and partner with the Investor Relations team to provide financial analysis connected to the external markets.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
Minimum of 10 years of relevant and progressive accounting/finance experience that included global financial leadership and experience in a manufacturing environment required.
Corporate Finance and/or FP&A experience is a plus, but not required.
Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly establish a personal brand within the organization to drive cross functional collaboration and influence resources outside one’s direct responsibility.
Ability to connect and drive high level strategic objectives for the business while at the same time able to dive into transactional detail if needed to resolve questions or issues.
Ability to identify trends and themes for continuous improvement across the function and the business.
Knowledge of ERP systems including Oracle ERP system, Hyperion and OneStream is a plus.
High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree and/or a CPA is strongly preferred
Ability to overcome obstacles and achieve objectives, and where needed change operational tactics along the way to achieve business goals.
Commitment to coaching and mentoring staff to enhance the proficiency, competencies and long-term development of the team.
Motivated by and thrives in a fast-paced environment with ability to assess and effectively rank priorities to allocate resources to highest impact objectives.
Proven ability to be hands on, roll up sleeves and demonstrate resourcefulness, initiative, results-orientation.
Has a mindset of continuous improvement and can embrace Regal Rexnord’s 80/20 principles.
Create a work environment with high standards of performance but where team members feel engaged and supported.

Responsibilities

Support VP of Corporate FP&A in their responsibilities and be capable to step in and back them up in all aspects of their duties where required
Lead a direct/indirect team of finance professionals as well as provide strategic FP&A guidance and support across the Enterprise finance organization and operating teams
Conducts and presents more complex financial and business analyses and research in areas such as Business Growth, Operations performance, Production Footprint analysis, Capital investment and rate of return, Working Capital opportunities and Profitability improvement
Research and leverage technological development in financial processes including analytical modeling, process automation and AI, and drive process optimization for financial processes across the Enterprise
Performs commercial analysis and research including market and competitor assessment for the preparation of long range planning and annual operating plans
Critically review Segment submissions of long range and annual operating plans for consistency with underlying business and industry trends and known events
Provide key analyses and recommendations on strategic and other executive projects with ad-hoc analysis that enables business assessments at a glance and support strategic decision making.
Supports M&A related financial requirements by creating comprehensive ROI models.
Drives consistency and continuous improvements in processes, and financial tools across the business including leadership for the OneStream and BI implementations.
Partners with VP of Corporate FP&A as well as the Executive Leadership team on the design and development of the framework that will guide effective operating reviews, annual operating plans, and long-range planning processes.