Senior Director Of Financial Planning And Analysis

Our client, the world's largest multi-brand specialty travel portfolio, is currently looking for a Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis to join their team in the Toronto area!

The Senior Director - FP&A will be responsible for:

• Intimately understand each P&L line, key contracts, key decisions, key drivers and bring challenges and insights on efficiencies, including ROI of company products and services.
• Gap analysis and transition reports between actual results and previous year's forecasts, budget and financial results.
• Identify and monitor areas of opportunity and risk performance, both P&L and cash flow, with supporting analysis, including responsibility for maintaining operating accounts.
• Improve the timely dissemination of financial results and forecasts to budget holders and department heads, taking ownership and ensuring action items are taken and reviewed.
• Develop, prepare and manage financial planning, forecasting and analysis function, including variance analysis against previous forecasts and understanding the drivers of YTD vs. YTG performance, across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to support data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Responsible for the financial modeling of season launches, including costing and overall financial metrics, season by season and ship by ship, as well as trend analysis
• Supporting analysis, including responsibility for maintaining O&R finances with phasing in collaboration with budget managers.
• Ongoing development of KPIs and results dashboards for management team and parent company.
• Work with project teams to report and analyze expenses against forecasts/budgets for major capital projects and other initiatives, including M&A opportunities.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• KPIs and performance measures, including funnel (leads, conversion), sales, pricing and financial metrics.
• Draw lessons for future forecasts and identify areas for performance improvement and cost minimization.
• Work with sales and marketing teams on customer booking and deposit forecasts and strategies to improve them, including the impact of promotions/discounts and customer terms and conditions.
• Prepare annual budgets and longer-term strategic plan templates and presentations, incorporating KPIs and performance measures, including funneling.
• Maintain financial models that feed into execution summaries, such as cost variance analysis (fuel divided by price and consumption, shipping staff salaries vs. travel).
• Lead packages for monthly business review meetings and quarterly business unit updates, creating presentations that provide insight into business activities.
• Creating presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required actions and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Work with sales and commercial teams on customer booking and deposit forecasts and strategies to improve these forecasts, including the impact of promotions and competition.
• Consumption, shipping staff salaries vs. trips, variable vs. fixed costs and underlying factors, etc.).
• Ensure that action items are taken and reviewed at least monthly with department heads.

The required qualifications for the Senior Director - FP&A are:

• Strong financial acumen and understanding of general accounting rules, with a proven track record of high performance financial analysis and reporting.
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with different levels of management.
• Proven track record in financial analysis and reporting.
• MBA or CA/CPA preferred.
• 10+ years experience in financial planning and business analysis.
• Experience of Hyperion would be an asset.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, ability to prepare PowerPoint presentations for management team.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining an overview.
• Experience in developing highly flexible financial models enabling rapid analysis of constantly changing scenarios.
• Willingness to be both a leader and a "doer" and ability to work with a minimum of direction.
• Proven and extensive financial forecasting, budgeting and modeling experience in an equivalent organization.
• Experience as an FP&A manager with frequent contact with all areas of the business, including finance, operations, commercial, sales, marketing and product.
• Experience in a fixed-cost business that relies heavily on revenue management to deliver financial results would be ideal.
• Experience in a dynamic business requiring iterative financial modeling across a number of scenarios.