Finance Director, Decision Support

2 weeks ago

Canada Mobile Auto Solutions, LLC Full time

Company: Gerber Collision & Glass

WELCOME TO GERBER COLLISION & GLASS

Our Team Members Drive Us Gerber Collision & Glass is one of the largest collision repair companies in North America. With $2+ billion in sales, over 800 locations and growing, our 10,000+ team members across the United States and Canada are passionate about delivering our goal to WOW Every Customer and Be the Best We invite you to join our team. Gerber offers a great place to launch and grow careers. As we continue to grow, we have endless opportunities for you to grow with us. Gerber Collision & Glass recognizes, values and welcomes all applicants with unique talents and abilities from all backgrounds and characteristics. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply, including individuals with disabilities and Protected Veterans.

Job Description:

The role of the Finance Director, Decision Support is to lead a team of Finance Business Partners and FP&A Professionals that serve to and bring together cross-functional stakeholders within the Company. Working closely with the Vice President Finance, the Director will be responsible for creating relevant, accurate, and timely information and insights that will drive critical strategic, operational, and financial decisions across the Company. The Director is a leader that drives the team by example, exhibiting a hands-on work ethic and whose team delivers concise analysis. The Decision Support team, under the Directors leadership, thrives on creating and delivering value-added analyses to all aspects of the business.

Key Job Responsibilities

  • Lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly planning and forecasting processes; owning the overall effectiveness to drive accurate financial forecasts
  • Timely, concise and consistent management reporting, including dashboards, ad-hoc business trends, and recurring monthly business review information
  • Develop insights and recommendations to improve business performance, understand key drivers of variance in performance and gather insights to report these variances to leadership along with recommendations for improvements
  • Lead the company's annual budgeting and recurring forecasting process to ensure that both internal and external financial benchmarks are achieved
  • Own the corporate model and financial plan and drive decision-making through the application of sound modeling, data-driven analysis, research and business judgment
  • Conduct scenario analysis to understand opportunities and risks to the financial plan
  • Work closely with Decision Support team members to manage Divisional and Corporate level models to ensure seamless consolidation into the forecast
  • Identify opportunities within ad-hoc and recurring financial reporting and refine associated processes to improve transparency and accuracy of financial reports
  • Support the establishment of long-term overall business strategy, planning goals and framework
  • Establish and sustain capital budgeting and reporting process
  • Facilitate meeting and communications to co-develop and confirm annual plan timeline/structure with key stakeholders
  • Act as an advisor to team members in performing analysis and supporting decision making
  • Approve and present activities performed by team members to leadership for feedback

Oversees the following team members:

Finance Business Partners

  • Role that is aligned to a specific Division and provides an integration point between Finance and the Division
  • Perform proactive analysis and reporting to drive value-added insight and decision-making
  • Perform ad-hoc reporting based on requests

FP&A

  • Responsible for FP&A Activities (long range planning, budgeting, forecasting)
  • Serve as analytical data expert for the Finance organization
  • Responsible for identifying key business drivers and relevant metrics for performance
  • Performs data aggregation and manipulation to create comprehensive dashboards and recurring management reporting

Education and/or Experience Required (including certifications)

  • Undergraduate degree in Business (preferably Finance or Accounting)
  • Relevant designation: CPA
  • Minimum of ten years of progressive finance or FP&A experience, including a minimum of 3+ years in a FP&A leadership role
  • Experience leading business planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for a growing organization operating in multiple jurisdictions
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to extract, dissect, and analyze large and complex quantities of data drawn from various systems and create actionable insights for various key stakeholders within the Company
  • Proven analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with strong financial modeling experience
  • Outcome-oriented with an ability to make a difference in short-order
  • Public company experience will be considered an asset

Ability to visualize data to convey analytical insights

Required Skills/Abilities

  • Business strategy modeling and portfolio management
  • Influencing business decisions
  • Driving business value & performance
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a focus on process rigor
  • Strong quantitative, analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills combined with outstanding business acumen
  • Ability to work well under pressure in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Experience advising and engaging senior stakeholders and leading initiatives across cross-functional teams
  • Ability to drive urgency while maintaining high quality of work
  • Strong team leadership skills

Knowledge

  • Specialized knowledge in the auto body repair industry would be an asset
  • Sound knowledge of financial statements and operational reporting

Other Requirements (i.e., physical requirements, travel, etc. that is not covered above).

Valid passport required, may be required to travel up to 25% of the time within the US and Canada

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Benefits That Drive Your Success
Gerber offers the comprehensive benefits you expect from an industry leader, including:

  • Competitive Pay Plans
  • Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
  • Employer Paid Short-Term Disability & Life Insurance
  • Paid Vacation & Holidays
  • Continuing Education Opportunities

Gerber Collision & Glass is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status, or any other consideration, prohibited by law or by contract.

About Us
Gerber Collision & Glass has been WOWing customers with our collision repair services for over 80 years. Please visit to learn more about our company.

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