# Financial Planning & Analysis, Sr Director **Company**: Synopsys **Location**: Exton, Pennsylvania **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $188000-$281000 **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: SNPS **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478 **Apply**: https://careers.synopsys.com/job/exton/financial-planning-and-analysis-sr-director/44408/98399792992?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_018898b0-8d3 ## Description You will be a strategic, business-focused finance executive leading finance organizations where financial decisions directly affect national security customers, competitive positioning, operational resilience, and enterprise growth. **Finance Leadership & CFO-Level Business Partnership** - Function as the CFO-like finance leader for AGI, serving as the principal financial advisor to the VP & GM, AGI executive leadership team, and parent company finance stakeholders. - Develop and execute the finance strategy for AGI, aligning financial planning, forecasting, reporting, controls, investment decisions, and operating rhythms with business priorities and government program requirements. - Lead executive-level financial reviews, business performance discussions, long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, headcount planning, cost optimization, and investment tradeoffs. - Translate financial results, risks, and opportunities into clear business recommendations for senior leaders, parent company finance, board/proxy governance participants, auditors, and business partners. **Matrix Organization to Parent Company & Shared Services** - Operate effectively in a matrix organization to the parent company finance function, partnering with corporate FP&A, controllership, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement, payroll, revenue, systems, internal audit, and shared services groups. - Build strong operating mechanisms with parent company finance and shared services to ensure AGI gets scalable, compliant, and timely support while maintaining clear business ownership and AGI-specific decision accountability. - Represent AGI requirements in parent company planning, budgeting, systems, controllership, policy, and reporting processes, ensuring finance delivery reflects the needs of a defense-oriented operating model. - Partner with parent company finance leaders to maintain alignment on financial policies, controls, reporting, revenue recognition, internal audit expectations, and enterprise governance. **FP&A, Forecasting, Financial Reporting & Business Decision Support** - Own AGI financial planning and analysis, including annual budget, long-range plan, rolling forecast, monthly business reviews, variance analysis, KPI reporting, scenario modeling, and executive dashboards. - Develop driver-based financial models for revenue, bookings, ARR or recurring revenue metrics where applicable, program costs, labor utilization, headcount, margin, working capital, and cash flow. - Provide business insights that improve P&L performance, pricing discipline, cost structure, investment prioritization, program profitability, and resource allocation across AGI. - Partner with Sales, Contracts, Legal, Product, Security, Program Management, and Operations to evaluate growth initiatives, proposal economics, non-standard deals, strategic investments, and risk-adjusted profitability. **Government Contracting Finance, Compliance & Controls** - Lead finance support for an organization serving Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, aerospace, defense, space, microelectronics, and federal customers, emphasizing mission assurance and compliant execution. - Partner with Legal, Contracts, Compliance, Security, and parent company finance to support federal acquisition, DFARS/FAR, cost allowability, indirect cost, labor charging, contract accounting, export control, and audit-readiness expectations as applicable. - Maintain strong financial governance, internal controls, documentation, and management review processes that support GAAP, corporate policy, SOX/internal control requirements, and government contracting expectations. - Support audit readiness and responses for internal audit, external audit, customer inquiries, government agency reviews, and other compliance matters, ensuring issues are surfaced, tracked, and remediated with discipline. **Commercial Finance, Deal Support & Growth Enablement** - Partner with sales and business development teams to assess opportunity economics, pricing, discounting, deal structure, license or SaaS terms, renewal dynamics, customer profitability, and margin impact. - Provide strategic finance support during proposal, capture, contract negotiation, program ramp, and post-award execution phases, balancing commercial speed with contractual, financial, and compliance requirements. - Develop financial analyses for new markets, product offerings, customer segments, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, integrations, and investments that support AGI growth goals. - Improve forecast accuracy, contract financial visibility, revenue predictability, and cross-functional decision quality through disciplined operating cadence and data-driven insights. **Team, Systems, Process & Governance** - Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing finance team or matrixed finance operating model with strong ethics, accountability, customer service, analytical rigor, and business partnership. - Improve finance processes, reporting tools, planning systems, controls, data quality, BI dashboards, and operating routines to increase efficiency, visibility, and decision velocity. - Establish finance metrics that matter, not metrics that simply look good in presentations, enabling executive visibility into performance, risk, cash, margin, bookings, revenue, program execution, and operational resilience. - Use AI-enabled and automation tools responsibly to improve forecasting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial insight generation while maintaining control, privacy, and human oversight. **Requirements** - 12+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, controllership, corporate finance, business finance, or government contracting finance experience, including senior leadership responsibility in a complex organization. - Demonstrated success serving as a CFO, divisional CFO, business unit finance leader, or senior finance partner for a business with material revenue, complex customers, regulated requirements, or matrixed enterprise support. - Experience in aerospace, defense, federal contracting, national security, software/SaaS, advanced technology, semiconductor, engineering simulation, or similarly regulated industries strongly preferred. - Strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, revenue, bookings, margin analysis, cost controls, cash flow, headcount planning, capital allocation, management reporting, and executive decision support. - Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, corporate controls, SOX/internal controls, audit readiness, business systems, and finance operations; familiarity with FAR/DFARS, CAS, DCAA/DCMA, labor charging, indirect rates, or government program finance is highly desirable. - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent credential preferred. - Ability to work with U.S. government customers and within a defense-oriented operating environment; active or prior U.S. security clearance is preferred where applicable. ## Skills ### Required - financial planning - analysis - CFO - government contracting - compliance - controls - forecasting - budgeting - financial reporting ### Nice to have - aerospace - defense - federal contracting - national security - software/SaaS - advanced technology - semiconductor - engineering simulation --- Source: [Apply at careers.synopsys.com](https://careers.synopsys.com/job/exton/financial-planning-and-analysis-sr-director/44408/98399792992?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)