Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Process and Insights
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Director of FP&A leading financial planning and analysis processes at Ciena. Shaping enterprise decision-making through insights and analytics across financial operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead enterprise FP&A process design and mapping across planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles
- Establish standardized process frameworks that improve consistency, scalability, traceability, and transparency
- Drive process redesign initiatives that address gaps, inefficiencies, and fragmented workflows
- Define business requirements that align FP&A processes with planning platforms, ERP systems, and data technologies
- Align FP&A processes and data models with analytics, automation, predictive modeling, and AI initiatives
- Deliver executive dashboards, KPIs, and standardized performance reporting across regions and business units
- Lead governance, assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives focused on process integrity, standardization, and automation.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, business analytics, or finance transformation
- Application of analytics, transformation, and technology enablement within finance organizations
- Utilization of Anaplan, Power BI or Tableau, Snowflake, and Advanced Excel
- Experience leading automation or digital finance initiatives
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to influence at the executive level
- Global and cross-functional experience
- Experience building scalable planning processes, governance frameworks, and insight models
- Background partnering with Finance, Accounting, Data, and Technology stakeholders on process and data alignment
- Application of financial statement integration concepts across P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow planning processes
- Experience defining and monitoring KPIs for process effectiveness and maturity
- Experience standardizing reporting frameworks across regions and business units
- Background enabling advanced analytics and AI-driven insights through structured and connected data
- Experience leading teams focused on process excellence, architecture, and insights delivery.
Benefits:
- medical, dental, and vision plans
- participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- company-paid holidays
- paid sick leave
- vacation time
- comply with all applicable laws regarding Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence
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