Finance Director, Decision Support - West (AZ or NV)

$134,000 - $236,000/Yr

Gerber Collision & Glass - Phoenix, AZ

Full-time - Senior

Phoenix, AZ

1,001-5,000 employees

Repair and Maintenance

About the position

The Finance Director, Decision Support is responsible for leading a team of Finance Business Partners and FP&A Professionals to provide critical financial insights and support strategic decision-making across the company. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and the Vice President of Finance to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting processes. The Director is expected to drive the team by example, fostering a culture of value-added analysis and effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly planning and forecasting processes; owning the overall effectiveness to drive accurate financial forecasts
• Timely, concise and consistent management reporting, including dashboards, ad-hoc business trends, and recurring monthly business review information
• Develop insights and recommendations to improve business performance, understand key drivers of variance in performance and gather insights to report these variances to leadership along with recommendations for improvements
• Lead the company's annual budgeting and recurring forecasting process to ensure that both internal and external financial benchmarks are achieved
• Own the corporate model and financial plan and drive decision-making through the application of sound modeling, data-driven analysis, research and business judgment
• Conduct scenario analysis to understand opportunities and risks to the financial plan
• Work closely with Decision Support team members to manage Divisional and Corporate level models to ensure seamless consolidation into the forecast
• Identify opportunities within ad-hoc and recurring financial reporting and refine associated processes to improve transparency and accuracy of financial reports
• Support the establishment of long-term overall business strategy, planning goals and framework
• Establish and sustain capital budgeting and reporting process
• Facilitate meeting and communications to co-develop and confirm annual plan timeline/structure with key stakeholders
• Act as an advisor to team members in performing analysis and supporting decision making
• Approve and present activities performed by team members to leadership for feedback

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Business (preferably Finance or Accounting)
• Relevant designation: CPA
• Minimum of ten years of progressive finance or FP&A experience, including a minimum of 3+ years in a FP&A leadership role
• Experience leading business planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for a growing organization operating in multiple jurisdictions
• Ability to visualize data to convey analytical insights
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to extract, dissect, and analyze large and complex quantities of data drawn from various systems and create actionable insights for various key stakeholders within the Company
• Proven analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with strong financial modeling experience
• Outcome-oriented with an ability to make a difference in short-order

Nice-to-haves

• Public company experience will be considered an asset
• Specialized knowledge in the auto body repair industry would be an asset

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vacation & Paid Time Off
• 401K Plan