Senior Director, Global Head FP&A
CellCarta
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇧🇪 Belgium
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Senior
About the role
- Own forecasting accuracy and monthly financial performance management
- Build and maintain reporting frameworks for backlog, bookings, revenue, costs, and cash flow
- Translate operational metrics into financial insight and predictive forecasts
- Lead scenario modeling related to demand volatility, staffing ramps, pricing changes, and regulatory impacts
- Establish consistent forecasting processes across regions and business units
- Lead long-range planning, annual budget, and rolling forecast processes
- Work with divisional leaders to ensure visibility into demand, capacity, backlog, and performance
- Analyze key operational and financial drivers including resource and capacity utilization, standard costs and billable rates, contract mix, backlog to revenue conversion, productivity
- Support M&A (acquisitions, add-ons, and integrations), including financial modeling, diligence support, and synergy tracking
- Serve as primary FP&A interface with the private equity sponsor team
- Prepare board deck financials, KPI reporting, and other investor analyses
- Deliver insights on growth, profitability, and operational performance
- Lead and coach a high-performing global FP&A team
- Drive standardization of reporting, planning tools, and data governance
- Partner with finance, IT, and operations to improve forecasting systems and business intelligence tools
- Optimize financial processes for scale, visibility, and transaction-readiness
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA, CPA, or CFA preferred)
- 10+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, consulting, or investment experience
- Experience in life sciences services (CRO, CDMO, diagnostics, or laboratory services) preferred
- Experience in private equity–owned or highly growth-oriented organizations strongly preferred
- Strong financial modeling and forecasting expertise
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills
- Willing to work Eastern Time Zone hours
- Experience working with global, cross-functional teams
Benefits
- 100% remote
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelingforecastingreporting frameworksscenario modelingbudgetingKPI reportingdata governancecapacity utilizationcost analysispredictive forecasting
Soft skills
executive communicationpresentation skillsleadershipcoachingcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsinsight deliveryteam management
Certifications
MBACPACFA