About This PositionThe Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will lead enterprise planning, forecasting, performance management, and decision support, with a strong emphasis on manufacturing finance, cost accounting, plant performance, and margin expansion. This leader will partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Product Development, and the divisional controllers to translate operational drivers into financial outcomes and actionable business decisions.
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director will establish rigorous planning and reporting processes, strengthen product and manufacturing cost visibility, and provide forward-looking insights that support profitable growth, cash generation, and disciplined capital allocation. The role requires a hands-on finance leader who can operate strategically while maintaining command of plant-level economics and accounting fundamentals.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities FP&A Leadership and Business Partnership - Own the annual operating plan, long-range plan, monthly forecasting, and periodic reforecasting processes across functions and operating locations.
- Lead monthly business performance reviews, converting financial and operational results into clear insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Build driver-based financial models for revenue, volume, price, mix, labor, material, overhead, freight, inventory, and capital investment.
- Partner with executive and functional leaders to evaluate business cases, strategic initiatives, commercial opportunities, and productivity programs.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development to the FP&A team, with clear accountability for analytical quality, timeliness, and business impact.
Manufacturing Finance and Cost Accounting - Lead financial analysis for manufacturing operations, including plant performance, conversion cost, capacity utilization, labor efficiency, material usage, scrap, yield, downtime, and overhead absorption.
- Own and continuously improve standard costing governance, including annual cost rolls, bills of material, routings, labor and overhead rates, and the review of cost standards with Operations and Engineering.
- Analyze and explain purchase price, material usage, labor efficiency, volume, mix, overhead absorption, and other manufacturing variances; drive corrective actions with plant and supply chain leaders.
- Partner with controllership to ensure inventory valuation, reserves, capitalization, and cost-of-goods-sold reporting are accurate, timely, and aligned with company accounting policies.
- Develop product, customer, channel, and SKU profitability views that reflect manufacturing complexity, freight, sourcing, and cost-to-serve.
- Support make-versus-buy, sourcing, network optimization, footprint, automation, and capital expenditure decisions through robust financial analysis and post-investment reviews.
- Establish consistent plant KPIs and dashboards to identify cost reduction, working capital, throughput, and margin improvement opportunities.
Reporting, Controls, and Performance Management - Oversee monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reporting packages, including consolidated operating results, financial position, KPI trends, and concise variance explanations.
- Ensure monthly results are loaded accurately into Dometic consolidation and reporting systems and that reporting aligns with Dometic financial standards.
- Work closely with divisional controllers to maintain clear ownership between FP&A, cost accounting, and financial accounting activities.
- Strengthen data quality, reporting automation, and management dashboards to create a reliable and scalable source of financial and operational insight.
- Provide timely communication and escalation of performance issues, forecast changes, control concerns, and emerging business risks.
Commercial and Strategic Decision Support - Partner with Sales, Marketing, Ecommerce, and Product Development on pricing, promotions, customer economics, new product introductions, and portfolio decisions.
- Provide detailed analysis of gross margin, contribution margin, freight, rebates, discounts, and cost-to-serve by customer, channel, and product.
- Track key strategic initiatives, quantify expected and realized benefits, and maintain transparent reporting on milestones and financial outcomes.
- Develop executive-ready presentations for management, ownership, lenders, and other stakeholders as required.
What do we offer?- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short term & Long-term disability
- Accidental death insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- Company paid holidays
- Flexible Spending Accounts
Minimum Requirements and Qualifications A suitable background would be a solid experience within the following qualifications and experiences:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience in manufacturing finance, FP&A, and cost accounting.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience with demonstrated success building high-performing finance teams.
- Deep knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, gross margin analysis, and plant performance management.
- Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations and partnering directly with plant, supply chain, procurement, and commercial leaders.
- Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, management reporting, and advanced Excel.
- Ability to communicate complex financial and operational topics clearly to senior leaders and non-financial stakeholders.
- Demonstrated record of improving processes, controls, data quality, and decision-support capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications: - MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification.
- Consumer products or durable goods manufacturing experience.
- Experience with ERP, consolidation, planning, and business intelligence platforms in a complex manufacturing environment.
- Experience leading cost transformation, footprint optimization, productivity, or margin expansion initiatives.
Leadership Profile - Strategic and commercially minded, with the willingness to work at a detailed operational level.
- Credible partner to Operations and Controllership who balances performance improvement with financial discipline.
- Curious, analytical, and decisive; able to challenge assumptions constructively and turn analysis into action.
- Director, Financial Planning & Analysis | Manufacturing Finance & Cost Accounting
- Comfortable leading through change, ambiguity, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
And of course - our Core ValuesTo thrive and succeed in this role, you understand the importance of our core values - Together We build our future, We play to win, We embrace change and We walk the talk; these values reflect the heart and soul of Dometic and they define what it takes to work here and how we do things.
Are you our next star? Then we would love to see your application.
Dometic is passionate about building together an inclusive and equitable working environment, that respects individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that diversity enables us to thrive across our differences. Be yourself and join us!
