Director, FP&A
Job Description
Job Overview
The Director, FP&A serves as a strategic finance leader and key partner across Komatsu North America (KNA), acting as the right hand to senior finance leadership and Executive Leadership of KNA. This role is responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial planning, consolidation, performance analysis, and reporting, while driving critical transformation initiatives that connect finance, systems, and business operations.
The Director will lead the consolidation of Construction, Mining, Forestry, and Forklift financials, elevating forecasting and reporting capabilities, and ensure alignment across P&L, Balance Sheet, and Capital planning. Additionally, the Director will also be responsible to consolidate Komatsu North America results and forecast, issue a monthly reporting package and report out to Executive Level Leadership. This leader will also play a critical role in advancing enterprise initiatives including OneStream implementation, S/4HANA integration, capital planning discipline, US GAAP to IFRS transition, and the adoption of advanced analytics and AI-driven capabilities to enhance forecasting accuracy, automate reporting, and generate deeper business insights.
This role requires a proactive, high-ownership leader who anticipates business needs, initiates action, communicates with clarity, and simplifies complexity through process, technology, and data—while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment and scaling data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Key Job Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Planning & Performance Management
• Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasts and long-range planning (LRP) with a focus on agility—not just calendar-driven cycles. Implement clear drivers and leading indicators into our forecast process.
• Translate strategy into financial targets, KPIs, and resource allocation frameworks
• Shift focus from variance explanation (“what happened”) to predictive insights and driving action (“what will happen and why”)
• Drive alignment between financial plans and operational realities
• Own the capital planning process, including development and governance of the multi-year Capex plan. Partner with operations and business leaders to provide templates to create ROI, payback, IRR, scenario analysis to evaluate, challenge, and optimize capital investment proposals. Improve forecasting and visibility of capital spend, reducing volatility and aligning execution with approved plans
Business Partnership & Decision Support
• Act as a thought partner to senior leadership (BU heads, operations, commercial leaders)
• Build financial models that go beyond reporting—scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and risk assessment
• Ensure accountability for financial commitments across the organization
Executive Communication & Monthly Reporting
• Own executive-level reporting, including monthly, quarterly and management committee / board materials with clear, concise narratives
• Simplify complex financial data into actionable insights
Process Optimization & FP&A Transformation
• Modernize FP&A processes (automation, standardization, elimination of low-value work)
• Lead implementation or optimization of planning tools and data models
Drive Large Scale Initiatives & Partner with FP&A Across the Business+
• Lead finance engagement across enterprise-wide transformation initiatives (e.g., OneStream, SAP S/4), delivering the alignment of reporting, data structures, and planning processes with business strategy
• Drive and help lead the financial impact of US GAAP to IFRS conversion, including implications to management reporting, KPIs, and balance sheet transparency
• Act as a change agent, ensuring adoption of new tools, processes, AI and ways of working within Finance and the broader organization
• Drive cross-functional alignment across KNA, KMT and KAC finance and accounting teams to ensure alignment, collaboration and delivery of initiatives
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field (MBA or CPA preferred)
• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant FP&A leadership experience
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive strategic decision-making
• Experience leading financial planning processes in complex, multi-entity and multi-systems organizations
• Strong experience with financial systems and transformation initiatives (OneStream, SAP / S4 experience strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams. Committed to the growth and development of direct reports through training, coaching, timely and meaningful feedback, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Driven and results oriented. Effective project leadership experience, time management, prioritization, and multi-tasking abilities. Committed to meeting established deliverables on time.
• Robust computer skills – SAP, BPC, Microsoft Office with advanced Excel skills, MS Access, SQL, RPA, BI/Power BI, strong technical aptitude
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, effective written and verbal communication at all levels, collaboration, and interpersonal skills (apply emotional intelligence). Attention to detail and accuracy a must.