Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MediaKind is the world’s largest independent video technology company, leading in sports streaming. The Director, FP&A will build and own the financial planning and analysis processes, serving as the primary finance business partner to functional leaders and managing the financial performance against plan.
Responsibilities
- Owns the combined P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow model — single version of truth across both legacy entities
- Produce monthly EBITDA-to-cash bridge, working capital analysis, and liquidity forecast
- Drive the close-to-report cycle for opex and headcount in coordination with the Controller
- Own the opex and consolidation model architecture in the enterprise planning system, including logic and output
- Lead the AOP process end-to-end planning calendar, department submissions, consolidation, ELT alignment, etc
- Run quarterly reforecasts coordinated with the revenue forecast; produce integrated management reporting packages for the ELT and Board in a streamlined, ultimately automated manner through leverage of both systems and AI tools
- Support long-range planning and scenario analysis
- Serve as the point of escalation and strategic partner to functional leads, with analysts acting as primary Finance BPs
- Deliver monthly holistic budget variance analysis and commentary with root-cause analysis to functional leaders
- Own and enforce the Finance Approval Gate: no requisition is drafted and no PO is created without confirmed in-budget status from Finance — critical for spend discipline and cost tracking accuracy
- Own the combined headcount plan by function, grade, and geography versus AOP; coordinate with HR on open requisition approvals and backfill decisions to validate and ensure budget compliance
- Build and maintain integration cost tracking; reconcile actual results against transaction targets on a recurring basis
- Provide financial control and account coding integrity over integration-related cost line items
- Support the CFO on board materials, lender reporting, and covenant compliance inputs
- Oversee procurement operations for the combined organization supervising a procurement manager; consolidating inherited processes, systems, and vendor relationships from both legacy entities into a single operating model
- Ensure no purchase order is issued without confirmed in-budget status and appropriate vendor terms
- Assess and rationalize legacy procurement infrastructure — systems, contracts, and approval workflows — carried over from the merger, prioritizing near-term consolidation and risk areas
- Establish procurement policies, controls, and vendor governance appropriate for a PE-backed
Skills
- Demonstrable systems-thinking mindset and intellectual curiosity
- Experience in leveraging AI in some capacity and proven desire to expand/explore ongoing practical use cases
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline
- 8–12+ years of progressive FP&A experience, with direct ownership of full P&L consolidation and spend
- PE-backed company experience required — familiarity with sponsor reporting cadence, covenant compliance, etc
- Post-acquisition experience — you have built a budget process that did not exist yet, not just maintained one that did
- Three-statement modeling fluency and command of EBITDA-to-cash bridge, working capital, and cash forecasting
- CPM/EPM platform depth required — Adaptive Planning preferred; Oracle Fusion and/or NetSuite familiarity a plus
- Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complexity into clear narrative for executive and board audiences
- Experience at a PE-backed technology, SaaS, hardware/software hybrid, or media technology business
- Prior exposure to integration cost management, 1x/transaction cost tracking, or deal-model-versus-actual analysis
- Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, or comparable BI/data platforms
- Experience standing up or maturing procurement operations — P2P systems, vendor management, and approval workflows — in a similarly nascent or post-merger environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus structure
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, group life insurance, 401K, LTD, STD and unlimited paid time off.
- MediaKindness Wellbeing Program and Family Friendly Policies
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Flexible work arrangements, including remote work options
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