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Resultant

Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Resultant
🇺🇸In-Person - Indianapolis, IN$185K–$250K/yri3h ago
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Role Snapshot

As Senior Director of FP&A, you will provide executives and investors with financial analysis and strategic insights to drive business decisions, owning critical budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes that enable informed leadership at a high-growth organization.

Key Responsibilities: Own comprehensive monthly investor and financial reports, manage budget and rolling forecast processes across departments, conduct variance analysis to advise management on performance improvements, and mentor a junior FP&A resource while leading special projects.
Skills & Tools: Advanced financial modeling, data analysis, and business acumen with proficiency in reporting tools; strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills with ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field with 10+ years of FP&A experience; preferred background includes private equity exposure, service-based organization experience, and demonstrated success in leading financial planning functions.
Location: In-Person - Indianapolis, IN
Compensation: $185K–$250K/yr (estimated)

Job Description

As the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), you will provide executives and investors with the financial information and analysis required to make effective business decisions. Specifically, the reports and recommendations you create will help our leadership team understand business trends, review past company performance, anticipate future challenges, and forecast the company’s future financial results.  You will take ownership of key elements that are critical to continued financial success at Resultant, including budgeting and forecasting processes, monthly reporting packages to key stakeholders, and financial modeling.

This role is perfect for you if you’re a critical thinker who is passionate about intelligently analyzing large volumes of data to gain insight and understand the story it tells.  You’ll also be a naturally curious person, asking the right questions and understanding the bigger picture to contextualize financial data in consideration of the organization’s strategic growth plan.  A high growth, fast-paced environment energizes you and you’ll be skilled in adapting to shifting priorities and changing needs.  Ideally, you will have previous experience with private equity partners and service-based organizations with regard to diligence, modeling, and integration.

Consider your day-to-day responsibilities in this role:

  • Own all reporting requirements, inclusive of comprehensive monthly investor reports, financial leadership reporting, bank covenants, and ad-hoc requests
  • Drive a rigorous budget and rolling forecast process for the organization, obtaining appropriate inputs from delivery, sales, and operations teams to consistently provide the most accurate and detailed financial outlook
  • Utilize data from variances analysis, reports, and forecasts to proactively advise management in improving performance, minimizing risk, or capturing new opportunities from both an internal company and external environment perspective
  • Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, including senior executives and functional leadership; Work with key leaders across departments to provide improved visibility and insights on business drivers and results
  • Develop systematic reporting through available tools to streamline the current reporting process
  • Manage, develop, and mentor a junior FP&A resource who will assist in supporting reporting needs and special project requests
  • Engage in special projects as required, inclusive of development and evaluation of optional paths – including return on investment, and improving processes and systems utilized to create and analyze data