Overview
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis Jobs in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area at Confidential Jobs
Title: Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Company: Confidential Jobs
Location: Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Duties:
Financial Planning & Analysis:
- Lead all aspects of financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for the assigned business unit.
- Partner with commercial and operational leaders to develop accurate sales forecasts across products and channels.
- Analyze and communicate financial performance, including monthly results, KPI trends, and budget vs. actuals, to business unit leadership and Executive Leadership during regular business reviews.
- Build financial bridges to explain variances between actuals, forecast, budget, and prior year.
- Provide actionable financial insights and strategic recommendations directly to the Business Unit President and senior stakeholders.
- Support long-range planning and scenario modeling for growth initiatives and risk management.
Pricing Strategy & Management
- Own and manage customer program pricing, marketing specials, promotional discounts, and their profit impacts in collaboration with Sales
- Apply pricing policies to review and adjust pricing based on cost changes, margin targets, sales performance, and competitive benchmarks
- Maintain, communicate, and distribute pricing using catalogs, websites, and internal tools/spreadsheets
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Sales, Supply Chain, Product, and Pricing) to ensure pricing strategies align with product and cost changes
- Monitor competitive landscape and market trends to support value-based pricing initiatives
Strategic Analysis & Business Support
- Conduct deep-dive financial assessments at the customer, product, and channel level to identify opportunities for margin expansion, revenue growth, or cost saving
- Develop business cases and financial models for new products, pricing structures, or strategic initiative
- Leads projects that solve targeted business challenges, develop project plans and monitor progress and performance to those plans
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives that drive efficiency, scalability, or profitability across the business unit
- Perform ad hoc analysis and support special projects as assigned by senior leadership
Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Economics from a four-year College or University or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience. MBA preferred
- Minimum 7-10 years of job-related experience required
- Experience with financial planning
- Experience leading pricing initiatives
- Understanding of overall platform functionally, including ERP, CRM, PIM, and WMS
- Analytical mindset to organize stakeholder feedback, develop solutions, and prioritize improvement opportunities
- Ability to solve complex technical, managerial, or operational problems
- Ability to operate and manage significant activities and resources to produce and take responsibility for result
- Ability to take a stand on an issue from a place of respect and open-mindedness
- Exceptional communication skills across all mediums, including the ability to communicate clearly with both business and technical stakeholders one on one, in groups of varying size, and across all levels of the organization
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a tea
- Demonstrated integrity, independent thinking, judgment, and respect for other
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Traits for success: big picture thinking, collaborative, resourceful, curious, creative problem-solving, assertive, influencer, critical thinker
- Ability to travel periodically, 10-25% of the time
