Director Financial Planning & Analysis

Stratas Foods offers an onsite leadership opportunity in Cordova, TN for a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to steer enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, profitability analytics, and performance management across the organization. This role partners with Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Executive leadership to translate operational activity into financial outcomes and provide actionable insights that shape strategic decisions.

What you will do

• Lead the annual operating budget, rolling forecast, long-range planning, and monthly performance management for all business functions.
• Establish and manage disciplined planning processes with clear accountability, milestone tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
• Act as a primary business partner to Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Executive Leadership to align activities with financial objectives.
• Cement a culture of financial accountability and operational transparency through consistent reporting, analytics, and business reviews.
• Provide executives with actionable financial insights, scenario modeling, and strategic analyses to inform decisions.
• Develop advanced profitability analyses for customers, SKUs, channels, and plants to improve margin visibility.
• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models for forecasting, pricing analysis, margin management, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.
• Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and key drivers of profitability and cash flow.
• Collaborate with Commercial and Operations leadership to improve gross margin, cost visibility, and operational efficiency.
• Lead variance analysis and performance reporting for executive leadership with a focus on actionable operational insights.
• Advance analytics and reporting capabilities using Power BI, advanced Excel modeling, ERP data integration, AI-enabled analytics, and related BI tools.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to improve data quality, automate reporting, standardize dashboards, and enable enterprise-wide access to decision-useful information.
• Help define and execute a long-term FP&A data and reporting strategy with scalable analytics infrastructure and self-service capabilities.
• Apply modern analytical techniques and emerging technologies to improve forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team and shape the function's future structure and capability roadmap.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, analytical rigor, and strong business partnership within FP&A.
• Assess organizational capability needs and scale the FP&A team as the business evolves.
• Lead special projects, strategic initiatives, and executive-level analyses as required.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive FP&A, finance, or operational finance leadership experience within a complex manufacturing or consumer products environment.
• Strong experience leading enterprise planning, forecasting, and cross-functional business review processes.
• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations and ERP-enabled financial environments.
• Prior food, ingredient, commodity, or manufacturing industry experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with customer and SKU profitability analytics, margin management, and operational performance analysis.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional leadership teams and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Experience building or scaling FP&A teams and analytical capabilities.
• Advanced Power BI and Excel expertise, including development of sophisticated financial models, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Strong ERP and data systems experience.
• SQL, data modeling, programming, or related analytical/automation experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with modern BI, data visualization, AI-enabled analytics, or cloud-based data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric) preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Technologies

• Power BI
• Excel
• ERP systems
• SQL
• Databricks
• Snowflake
• Fabric

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision