Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Our vision is to grant the wish of every eligible child. We are uniting communities to grant life-changing wishes. As the world's largest wish-granting organization, we strive to create a sense of community and an environment where we warmly embrace our wish families, volunteers, and colleagues.

The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis manages all aspects of internal management reporting, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and results analysis. This role develops timely, comprehensive, and clear messaging of financial results to explain our story and drive actions to move results. This position partners closely with functional leaders and manages the build-up of all financial plans including budget, forecasts, and multi-year strategies. Working closely with the CFO, the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis will develop financial projections to support the Organization's strategic plans.

Duties & Responsibilities :

• Drive a robust annual budgeting process for the Make-A-Wish national office, including target setting, model / template creation, partnership with key constituents, and formalization of final budget reviews.
• Responsible for National and Enterprise financial reporting and present financial data to AFC committee and Board reviews. Drives preparation of Monthly / Quarterly Executive Leadership Team and Board deck. Review income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows to assist with trend analysis and identification of operational risks and / or opportunities.
• Partner with all National business functions. Collect, interpret, and model retrospective and prospective data to assist in business direction and decision-making.
• Development and management of long-range financial planning models to run in parallel to the strategic planning cadence.
• Play key role in development and implementation of the financial planning tool for the enterprise.
• Own financial forecast process, including partnering with all functions to develop variance analyses and forward-looking driver-based outlooks, as well as creating forecast rollup, review, and approval processes.
• Provides support and build business cases on key decisions for headcount investments and resource deployment.
• Lead and manage members of the Finance, Payroll, and Accounting team. Sets priorities, remove obstacles for delivering on objectives, and ensures team is focused on providing value-added support that helps deliver strong financial performance.
• Lead and own holistic financial reporting strategy and execution, including monthly performance reporting, dashboard creation, and action-oriented communication to departments.
• Execute on various other analytic projects as assigned to provide decision support for key trends in performance.
• Play a role in financial project assessment as part of our project management intake process.
• Partner with key functions to help co-create driver-based ROI and cost-benefit assessments.

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This Role's Hiring Range : $152,900 - $164,000 USD

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