Finance director Jobs in Carmel, IN

Director of Finance (FP&A)

The Director of Finance (FP&A) is a senior finance leader responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, business intelligence, profitability analysis, and decision support for a $2.5+ billion Verizon Authorized Retailer. This position partners closely with executive leadership, operations, sales, accounting, treasury, and field leadership to provide accurate financial insight, actionable reporting, and strategic recommendations.

The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in FP&A, financial modeling, retail analytics, and data management. This individual must demonstrate the ability to extract, reconcile, and interpret complex data from multiple systems, translate operating performance into financial outcomes, and develop high-integrity forecasts and business models that support informed decision-making and long-term growth.

The Director leads the FP&A function, supports enterprise planning processes, develops performance reporting and KPI frameworks, and serves as a trusted business partner across the organization.

Essential Job Functions:

Financial Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and performance management processes.
• Develop and maintain financial models supporting profitability, labor planning, liquidity forecasting, capital allocation, acquisitions, and strategic initiatives.
• Produce executive reporting packages and present financial results, trends, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, lenders, and ownership.
• Monitor performance against budget and forecast while driving accountability throughout the organization.
• Perform scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling to support strategic decision-making.

Data Extraction, Business Intelligence & Analytical Modeling

• Demonstrate expert ability to tactically pull data from multiple systems and sources, including financial systems, operational databases, carrier reporting, POS platforms, inventory systems, payroll systems, and business intelligence tools.
• Validate relationships across operational and financial data sources including sales, commissions, payroll, inventory, traffic, customer performance metrics, and general ledger systems to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.
• Build and maintain analytical models and reporting dashboards.
• Identify data anomalies, reconciliation issues, and process breakdowns.
• Establish and maintain a trusted "single source of truth."

Business Partnership & Operational Finance

• Partner with operations and field leadership to evaluate store performance, labor productivity, compensation programs, sales effectiveness, and profitability initiatives.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations supporting new store investments, remediation plans, acquisitions, transfers, and strategic business decisions.
• Translate operational activity into actionable financial insights and communicate findings to leadership in a clear, concise manner.

Process Improvement, Controls & Data Integrity

• Establish rigorous standards for financial and operational reporting accuracy.
• Improve reporting processes, close support, data governance, and reconciliation procedures.
• Lead efforts to automate recurring reporting and reduce dependence on manual workarounds while preserving data integrity.
• Create repeatable and auditable processes for forecast updates, management reporting, KPI tracking, and store-level financial review.
• Ensure key analyses and models are transparent, logically structured, and capable of standing up to executive, lender, audit, or transaction scrutiny.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A and business analytics team.
• Establish a culture of accountability, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, and business partnership.
• Coach team members on financial analysis, forecasting, storytelling, and executive communication.

Education and/or Experience:

• BS or BA in Finance (CPA or MBA preferred)
• Minimum 15 years of FP&A experience
• Demonstrated skills necessary for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, financial management, cost management and process improvement
• Successful project management across multiple initiative and projects
• Finance experience supporting corporate functions, business operations and executive leadership
• Minimum 5 years management experience

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven experience turning raw data into trusted business insight
• Expert understanding of how operational data translates into financial performance
• Ability to build high-integrity forecasts and models that leadership can rely on
• Strong tactical capability to pull, organize, validate, and interpret complex data
• Deep understanding of retail performance drivers and field-level economics
• Bias toward accuracy, root-cause analysis, and practical decision support
• Ability to create clarity where data is fragmented, inconsistent, or incomplete
• Willingness to dive into details personally when needed, not just manage at a high level
• Strong partnership mindset with operations, accounting, and executive leadership
• Proven ability to connect, integrate and synthesize analysis and data into a meaningful'so what' to drive concrete strategic recommendations for company tactics and strategies. Capable of describing relevant caveats in data or in a model and how they relate to business questions.
• Experience defining problems, collecting data and testing conclusions.
• Ability to effectively communicate both in writing and verbally, as well as to interact in a professional manner and collaborate across all functions of the company
• Analytical Thinker
• Strong Data and Information analysis capabilities
• Possess a high degree of proficiency with MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, and Outlook
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining efficiency and meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Exceptional organizational skills required.
• Ability to meet designated deadlines.

Work Environment

Typically works in a general office environment. Overtime hours as needed

Physical Demands

• Able to sit up to 90% of the time.
• Able to stand and/or walk over 10% of the time

Travel Requirements

Travels less than 10% of the time, including overnight.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.