Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

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Who We Are

Formerra is a preeminent distributor of engineered materials, connecting the world’s leading polymer producers with thousands of OEMs and brand owners across healthcare, consumer, industrial, and mobility markets. Powered by technical and commercial expertise, it brings a distinctive combination of portfolio depth, supply chain strength, industry knowledge, service, leading ecommerce capabilities, and ingenuity. The experienced Formerra team helps customers across multiple industries to design, select, process, and develop products in new and better ways – driving improved performance, productivity, reliability, and sustainability. To learn more, visit www.formerra.com .

Formerra leads in the market with the following key capabilities:

• Problem-solving mindset, based on ingenuity and backed by a skilled and experienced commercial team that brings differentiated insights across markets including healthcare, consumer, industrial and mobility
• Expansive material portfolio, including engineering thermoplastics and traditional polymers across leading material brands
• Integrated, long-standing relationships with leading, global suppliers
• Unparalleled and highly specialized technical, processing, and design support
• Regulatory-compliant material support and expertise

Position Summary

The Director, Financial Planning & Analysis leads the company’s management reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic analysis processes. This role partners closely with executive leadership and functional leaders to translate financial and operational data into clear insights, actionable recommendations, and improved business performance. The Director will strengthen the FP&A function by improving forecast accuracy, enhancing management reporting and analytics, elevating commercial and operational decision support, and building a proactive, curious, and business-oriented finance team. Success in this role requires going beyond the numbers to understand business drivers, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions that support sustainable EBITDA growth, cash generation, and strategic decision-making.

Location Requirement: This role is considered hybrid, and candidates must be within a commutable distance to our Romeoville office for 3 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial planning, forecasting, and performance management: Lead the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes, including revenue, gross margin, operating expense, EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, and capital investment planning.
• Develop and maintain driver-based financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses that support strategic planning, resource allocation, pricing, customer/product profitability, and major business decisions.
• Provide executive leadership with timely, insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic plan, clearly explainin

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s talent, sets high standards, and fosters a team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and business partnership.

Disclaimers

• Legal authorization to work in the specified country is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
• It is the policy of Formerra that all employees are employed at the will of Formerra for an indefinite period and are subject to termination at any time, for any reason, with or without cause or notice. At the same time, employees may terminate their employment at any time and for any reason.
• Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract.
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