CrossCountry Consulting
Associate Director - FP&A Industrial: Manufacturing & Distribution - Private Equity Advisory
United States · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2025
- Experience
- 9+ years in FP&A and/or restructuring/turnaround.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
About the job
Leads FP&A transformation and value-creation work for private-equity-backed manufacturing and distribution companies, building financial planning, costing, cash forecasting, and performance analytics capabilities.
What you'll do
- Stand up and mature FP&A functions, including budgets, rolling forecasts, operating and cash flow models, and manufacturing cost processes.
- Create plant dashboards and scorecards, connect operational metrics to financial results, and lead variance analysis and corrective actions.
- Lead client engagements and teams, develop junior staff, build client relationships, and contribute to proposals and practice growth.
What they ask for
- 9+ years in FP&A and/or restructuring/turnaround; alternatives are not stated.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- Advanced Excel modeling, including scenario/sensitivity analysis and macros; strong dashboarding and data-wrangling skills.
- Manufacturing cost expertise, including standard costing, variance analysis, absorption, PPV/commodity tracking, and working-capital optimization.
Nice to have
- Experience in PE-backed industrial/manufacturing environments.
- CPA or CA certification; Power BI/Tableau, SQL/Alteryx, and EPM tools are also noted as preferred or a plus.
Tools
Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL, Alteryx, SAP, Oracle
AI focus
Responsibly explore and adopt firm-approved AI tools, contribute to AI-enabled client solutions, and identify compliant opportunities to improve client solutions and internal processes.
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