Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is seeking a Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as a key strategic partner to the CFO and executive leadership team. This role will lead the evolution of the finance function to enhance forecasting accuracy, strengthen business visibility, and improve decision support across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the CFO on global enterprise-wide financial planning, business performance management, and strategic initiatives
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by providing objective analysis and recommendations that influence business decisions
- Support strategic investments, growth initiatives, capital deployment decisions, and organizational prioritization efforts
- Develop financial frameworks that connect operational performance to enterprise value creation
- Lead the annual operating plan, rolling forecast process, long-range strategic plan, and scenario modeling activities
- Build and refine forecasting methodologies that incorporate commercial trends, operational drivers, market conditions, and investment plans
- Drive accountability across functions by establishing clear planning assumptions, ownership structures, and performance expectations
- Enhance the organization's ability to identify emerging risks and opportunities through forward-looking analytics and performance indicators
- Improve forecast reliability while increasing transparency around key business drivers and outcomes
- Partner with commercial leadership to evaluate revenue trends, pricing dynamics, product mix, market opportunities, and customer profitability
- Collaborate with operations and supply chain teams to assess manufacturing performance, inventory strategies, capacity utilization, productivity initiatives, and cost optimization opportunities
- Develop meaningful analyses that connect demand planning, production capabilities, margin performance, cash generation, and working capital efficiency
- Provide financial insight supporting product launches, investment decisions, and operational improvement programs
- Lead the preparation of financial and operating reviews for executive leadership, board-level discussions, and external stakeholders
- Deliver concise, decision-oriented analysis focused on performance drivers, business implications, and recommended actions
- Establish consistent metrics, definitions, and reporting standards across regions and functional organizations
- Elevate management reporting beyond historical results by emphasizing future performance and strategic implications
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing global FP&A organization
- Streamline planning and reporting processes while improving analytical depth and business partnership capabilities
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives related to data quality, business intelligence, planning systems, and reporting automation
- Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, and constructive challenge within the finance team
- Drive adoption of modern planning tools and analytical capabilities that support scalable growth
Skills
- Fifteen or more years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, business finance, or related disciplines
- Demonstrated success supporting complex global manufacturing operations
- Strong understanding of cost accounting, margin analysis, inventory management, capital investment evaluation, and working capital optimization
- Experience leading enterprise budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and performance management processes
- Ability to translate operational and commercial activity into meaningful financial outcomes and actionable business recommendations
- Proven capability influencing senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams
- Advanced financial modeling, planning systems, ERP, business intelligence, and analytical skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
- Experience within medical device, life sciences, healthcare products, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments
- Background in private equity-backed or high-growth organizations
- Exposure to operational transformation, margin expansion initiatives, manufacturing optimization, or supply chain improvement programs
- Experience implementing or enhancing FP&A technologies, reporting infrastructure, and data governance frameworks
- MBA, CPA, CFA, CMA, or similar professional designation
Company Overview
Robert Half provides staffing, recruiting, finance, and accounting services. It was founded in 1948, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Hessen, DEU, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.roberthalf.de.