Advantage Solutions

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Advantage Solutions$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 8-10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis preferred
  • Proficient in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning methodologies
  • Strong financial reporting and data visualization skills
  • Experience with financial systems and data analysis tools
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong organizational and project management skills

Responsibilities

  • Partner with financial planning leads to design and implement forecasting and reporting processes
  • Establish best practices for financial management and performance metrics
  • Facilitate alignment among financial planning teams across business units
  • Collaborate with technology teams for effective reporting and financial data support
  • Develop and deliver financial reports and dashboards for leadership
  • Consolidate financial results and prepare reporting packages
  • Translate complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership
  • Lead annual budgeting and forecasting processes aligned with business objectives
  • Build financial models for scenario evaluation and cost optimization strategies

Benefits

  • No travel requirements
  • Direct report management responsibilities
  • Independence in decision-making and process improvement
  • Opportunity for establishing best practices in financial management
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
Full Job Description
Summary

Responsibilities
  • Partner with financial planning leads to design and implement standardized forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis processes across the organization
  • Establish best practices for financial management including use of planning tools, reporting templates, and performance metrics
  • Facilitate alignment across financial planning teams to ensure consistent financial support and reporting across business units
  • Partner with technology teams to ensure systems support reporting, planning, and financial data needs
  • Develop and deliver financial reports, dashboards, and analysis to support leadership decision making
  • Consolidate financial results and prepare reporting packages including metrics, variance analysis, and executive summaries
  • Translate complex financial data into actionable insights and recommendations for senior leadership
  • Lead annual budgeting and forecasting processes aligned with strategic business objectives
  • Build financial models to evaluate scenarios, investment decisions, and cost optimization strategies

Qualifications
  • Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree
  • Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field (Financial planning and analysis experience preferred)
  • Travel requirement: No travel requirements

Supervisor Responsibility
  • Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources
  • Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Required Knowledge and Skills
  • Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning methodologies
  • Strong financial reporting and data visualization capabilities
  • Experience using financial systems and data analysis tools
  • Ability to align cross functional teams around standardized processes
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to communicate financial insights to senior leadership
  • Strong organizational and project management capabilities

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law.

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Responsibilities
  • Partner with financial planning leads to design and implement standardized forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis processes across the organization
  • Establish best practices for financial management including use of planning tools, reporting templates, and performance metrics
  • Facilitate alignment across financial planning teams to ensure consistent financial support and reporting across business units
  • Partner with technology teams to ensure systems support reporting, planning, and financial data needs
  • Develop and deliver financial reports, dashboards, and analysis to support leadership decision making
  • Consolidate financial results and prepare reporting packages including metrics, variance analysis, and executive summaries
  • Translate complex financial data into actionable insights and recommendations for senior leadership
  • Lead annual budgeting and forecasting processes aligned with strategic business objectives
  • Build financial models to evaluate scenarios, investment decisions, and cost optimization strategies

Qualifications
  • Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree
  • Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field (Financial planning and analysis experience preferred)
  • Travel requirement: No travel requirements

Supervisor Responsibility
  • Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources
  • Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Required Knowledge and Skills
  • Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning methodologies
  • Strong financial reporting and data visualization capabilities
  • Experience using financial systems and data analysis tools
  • Ability to align cross functional teams around standardized processes
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to communicate financial insights to senior leadership
  • Strong organizational and project management capabilities

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law.

About Advantage Solutions

Advantage Solutions is one of North America’s leading sales, marketing and technology services company specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods.
Learn more about Advantage Solutions
Market Cap
$620.3 million
Industry
Net Income
-$2.7 million
Founded
1987
NASDAQ

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