Wave

Director, Business Planning

Wave$120K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of accounting, business planning and finance experience
  • 5+ years of management experience
  • Proficient in data analysis and interpretation
  • Clear verbal and written communication skills with all levels of management

Responsibilities

  • Guide Business Planning Analysis team to deliver strategic insights
  • Evaluate and recommend updates to departmental procedures
  • Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting
  • Serve as a liaison for departmental budgets during monthly reporting
  • Oversee data management, analyzing information for actionable solutions
  • Support analysts and monitor continuous improvement initiatives
  • Direct cost analysis to inform executive decisions

Benefits

  • Collaborative office environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Exposure to strategic decision-making processes
  • Access to cutting-edge data analysis tools
  • Role in shaping company policy and business processes
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Drive operational and financial strategy by leading Spectrum's Business Planning Analysis team. As a Director, Business Planning at Spectrum, you'll oversee integrated analysis of financial and operational metrics while ensuring data-driven reporting and informed decision-making. Your expertise will shape key policies, empower your team and optimize business processes, directly influencing Spectrum's growth and performance.

Responsibilities

How You'll Make an Impact
  • Guide your Business Planning Analysis team to deliver strategic operational and financial insights
  • Evaluate and recommend policy changes, updating and distributing departmental procedures as needed
  • Manage budgeting, forecasting, model development, and comprehensive financial reporting
  • Serve as a liaison between teams to support monthly reporting and forecast trends related to departmental budgets
  • Oversee complex data management, reviewing and analyzing information to provide actionable solutions for leadership
  • Lead a team responsible for gathering, refining and maintaining business requirements for opportunity to cash order flow across all business lines
  • Assign projects, support analysts, review performance and monitor continuous improvement initiatives
  • Ensure thorough analysis of interdependencies, risks and mitigation strategies impacting new products, services or processes
  • Direct cost and metric analysis to inform executive decisions


Working Conditions
  • Office environment


Qualifications

What You'll Bring to Spectrum

Required Qualifications

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent experience

Experience
  • 8+ years of accounting, business planning and finance experience
  • 5+ years of management experience

Skills
  • High sense of ownership, collaboration and execution excellence
  • Strong prioritization and organizational abilities
  • Proficient in data analysis and interpretation
  • Quick identification of business problems and opportunities
  • Clear verbal and written communication skills with all levels of management
  • Strong analytic, organizational and problem-solving skills
  • Effective presentation skills to executive audiences
  • Decision-making and problem-solving capabilities under pressure
  • Initiative, judgment and collaborative problem-solving
  • Expertise in Word, Excel and related software
  • Demonstrated planning and forecasting abilities
  • Strategic focus and team-building abilities
  • Leadership and mentoring skills
  • Ability to develop and present data-driven reports
  • Executive-level documentation and presentation skills


Preferred Qualifications

Skills
  • Knowledge of telecommunications industry

About Wave

Wave is a Canadian financial services company that provides accounting, invoicing, and payment processing software for small businesses. The company was founded in 2010 by Kirk Simpson and James Lochrie. Wave's software is used by over 4 million small businesses around the world. In 2019, the company was acquired by H&R Block for $405 million. Wave is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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