The Associate Director will lead the Global Financial Planning & Analysis Center of Excellence (FP&A COE) within Commercial Controllership, managing a team of four employees. The role advances consistent standards, processes, tools, and finance capabilities that enable timely, informed decisions across global commercial finance.

Responsibilities

Lead the COE, team, and operating model

• Lead, coach, and develop four employees while setting priorities across the COE’s four pillars.
• Define preparation, review, approval, and decision responsibilities across Commercial Controllership and the LBE and Plan/LRP teams.
• Align priorities and resolve issues with planning, forecasting, SG&A, business-unit FP&A, shared services, procurement, and HR partners.

Standardize practices and advance technology

• Develop and drive adoption of standard procedures, planning guidance, reporting templates, mock books, and presentation standards.
• Oversee SG&A, headcount, net sales, and related reporting guidance and deliverables across all planning cycles while establishing consistent methodologies across global commercial.
• Lead automation and AI initiatives using tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and Wdesk.
• Maintain COE platforms and tools and promote adoption across the finance community.

Drive financial insight and business support

• Oversee COE deliverables for net sales, weekly trends, sales incentives, SG&A, distribution margin, and post-execution reclassifications.
• Ensure quality and accuracy of reconciliations, royalty true-ups, standard cost reconciliations, and planning data verification.
• Lead technical analyses, including exchange adjustments and industry fee calculations, with relevant finance partners.

Build the team and broader finance capability

• Lead quarterly FP&A forums and finance learning and development programs.
• Strengthen onboarding through consistent documentation and training on key FP&A topics.