The Director of FP&A will apply a pragmatic approach to building and streamlining the financial planning and analysis function, build scalable processes, and will partner with and advise the Executive Leadership Team in supporting the delivery of the value creation plan to deliver accretive EBITDAR growth.

Essential Functions:

• Partner with business leaders to attain strategic EBITDAR targets
• Partner with the CFO to help grow the business and drive the organization for 100%+ EBITDAR growth
• Take ownership of KPI process, measure results and explain variances.Implement KPIs and analytics that enable management to make informed, fact based, “real-time” decisions and automate monthly Operating Council reporting
• Establish reporting cadence with functional leaders
• Build and optimize the acquisitions ROI model to drive better business decisions in a BI solution (PowerBI) or other
• Be a business partner to the leadership team by developing and persuasively communicating fact-based insights and data driven analysis for the strategic direction of the business to support value creation initiatives across the organization
• Lead Annual Operating Plan creation and maintain budget/forecasting within
• Provide accounting and financial reporting to support management decisions and drive accountability to plans, budgets and forecasts
• Partner with each Executive Leadership Team member and their organizations to establish a monthly cadence of P&L reviews with an aim to stay on track with financial performance goals
• Support Platinum Ops and Deal team as required in evaluation of bolt-on opportunities and various modeling scenarios
• Execution of synergies and financial benefit realization
• Build a sustainable FP&A capability. Outline the requirements, both organizationally and functionally, to build a fit for purpose FP&A function at Unical Aviation
• Build an FP&A transformational roadmap that clearly addresses gaps in tools, KPIs, metrics, etc. Roadmap should align with the business requirements for and size of Unical Aviation
• Manage and direct monthly and annual budgeting process for business units including analysis of financial statement data and variances
• Work with business units to address budget performance and variances
• Review FTE requirements relative to individual department budgets and special projects.
• Develop Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) for each business unit, determine methods to measure and report such KPIs and to incorporate them into the monthly and annual budget process.
• Assist the Treasury Operations team to develop capabilities similar to the above for weekly cash flow and liquidity reporting purposes (“13 Week Cash Flow Forecasts”).
• Manage a financial analyst who will reside in the Finance Team
• Work in partnership with Finance and Accounting Leadership team to coordinate budgets with financial reporting.
• Design and develop reporting capabilities such as websites, digital dashboards, mobile applications, etc. to increase utilization of the information produced through the monthly and annual budgeting process, the 13 Week Cash Flow Forecast process, and Business Intelligence processes.
• Periodically create updated Outlooks and/or Re-Budgets as directed by Executive leadership.

   

  Additional Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and present complex financial concepts effectively to a non-financial audience.
• Develop positive professional relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Continually improve and optimize the processes, financial reporting, and KPIs associated with the monthly and annual budget process.
• Support colleagues in Finance with respect to their core duties as required.
• Consider regulatory compliance relative to budget proposals.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Master’s degree preferred
• 10 - 15 years experience in related industry
• 5 – 10 years managerial experience
• Experience with consolidating tools such as, Planful and Hyperion
• Experience working with business intelligence tools (SQL, MS Power BI…) strongly preferred
• Exceptional attention to detail & obsession with accuracy

Skills:

• Organizational Agility: Ability to work across functions and influence stakeholders
• Action Orientation:  Bias for action and pace of execution.  Fact base - operates with a set of operational and financial facts.
• Leadership:  Transformation leader who drives change and supports the vision of the executive management team
• Technical skill set:  Expertise in Excel based modeling, definition of KPIs and “metrics that matter”.  Ability to professionally represent the current state of the business and variances/deviations from budget; management information systems; administration focus on bottom line and long term goals; P&L responsibility
• Strategic perspective: business strategy development and implementation, company restructuring or reengineering; creating a new focus; business plans
• Information Design/ Data Visualization:  Visual presentation of information in an manner that provides relevant stakeholders with an efficient and effective understanding of the data.
• Experience performing due diligence on and integrating bolt-on acquisitions 
• Applies objective business judgement in supporting management decisions

Salary Range:  $150K-$170K

Working Conditions:

• Regularly spend long hours sitting and using office equipment and computers.
• Regularly spend long hours in intense concentration reviewing and entering financial information into a computer.

• Flexibility to work non-standard hours to meet critical deadlines.

Travel:

There is limited travel required.

Language:

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.