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Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

City
Irving
State/Province
Texas

Overview:

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) plays a critical leadership role in driving financial insight, strategic decision-making, and performance management across the business. This role partners closely with senior business leaders to translate strategy into actionable financial plans, deliver forward-looking analysis, and ensure sustained value creation. The Director leads planning, forecasting, and reporting processes while mentoring a high-performing FP&A team.

Responsibilities:

 

Financial Planning, Forecasting & Analysis

  • Lead the annual budgeting, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, translating business strategy into financial plans and scenario analyses to assess risks and opportunities.
  • Validate monthly business actual financial results, partnering closely with Accounting and Controllership to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of reported financials
  • Deliver timely and insightful variance analysis against forecast, identifying key performance drivers and recommending corrective actions.
  • Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical rigor.

Strategic Business Partnership

  • Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business and functional leaders, providing data-driven insights to support strategic initiatives, investments, and resource allocation.
  • Develop and maintain robust financial models to support business cases, pricing decisions, and profitability analysis.
  • Support M&A, capital investment, and other strategic initiatives through financial modeling, valuation, and post-investment performance tracking.

Process Improvement & Systems

  • Enhance FP&A processes, tools, and systems to improve scalability, automation, and insight generation.
  • Partner with IT and finance transformation teams on planning system enhancements and data model improvements.
  • Ensure strong governance, controls, and documentation across planning and reporting processes.

Qualifications:

 

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required
  • MBA, CPA, CFA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred

Experience

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or related roles, with demonstrated business partnership at a senior level
  • Prior experience leading and developing high-performing teams
  • Industry experience in a complex, matrixed, or global organization preferred

Skills & Competencies

  • Strong strategic and analytical capabilities with the ability to simplify complex financial information
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, including executive-level financial storytelling
  • Advanced financial modeling and scenario analysis expertise
  • Strong systems aptitude to ERP and financial reporting system (SAP and BPC) and high proficiency in Excel
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, ambiguity, and tight deadlines

Leadership Attributes

  • Business-oriented, proactive, and results-driven
  • Collaborative partner with strong commercial acumen
  • Comfortable challenging assumptions and driving change
  • High integrity and commitment to sound financial governance

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Celanese is a global leader in chemistry, producing specialty material solutions used across most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use our chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders. We support sustainability by responsibly managing the materials we create and growing our portfolio of sustainable products to meet customer and societal demand. We strive to make a positive impact in our communities and to foster inclusivity across our teams. Celanese Corporation employs more than 11,000 employees worldwide with 2024 net sales of $10.3 billion. For more information about Celanese Corporation and its product offerings, visit www.celanese.com.

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