Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Department: Corporate Finance
Reports To: CFO

The Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) leads enterprise planning, analytics, and performance management with accountable ownership for building and embedding standard FP&A work and a scalable financial data backbone. The role partners closely with the CFO, CEO, business finance, operations leaders, and corporate functional leaders to support disciplined capital allocation and value‑creation agenda, ensuring a single source of truth in planning data across a diversified portfolio. The core mandate is to simplify and continuously improve planning, forecasting and analysis approaches.

Major Duties

Enterprise FP&A – Core Priorities

• Build on existing FP&A processes and foundations to establish and embed FP&A standard work, common definitions and improve enterprise planning and forecasting frameworks.


• Simplify tools, reports and processes and partner with business and finance leaders to improve financial data management approach to enable more consistent, decision‑ready insights across the organization.


• As these foundations mature, focus will naturally shift to advanced analytics, predictive insights, AI‑enabled finance capabilities and broader value‑creation initiatives across the portfolio.

Financial Planning & Analysis, Finance Transformation

• Lead the enterprise long‑range financial plan, the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecast, translating enterprise priorities into P&L, cash and balance sheet outcomes; partner with group finance leaders to drive clear performance commitments across all global operations.


• Own the enterprise rolling forecast and quarterly outlook cadence, partnering with group finance leaders to support continuous improvement in forecast accuracy, bias reduction and cycle‑time compression through a common forecasting framework.


• Drive the CFO operating rhythm (MBRs/QBRs), delivering clear driver‑based insights, forward‑looking risks and opportunities, and explicit “so‑what/now‑what” actions tied to accountable owners.


• Own Corporate FP&A data flows and data governance, alignment and automation; parent corporate modeling, planning and reporting processes; accountability for simplifying and standardising processes and tools.


• Partner with business operations and finance leaders to advance maturity in data liquidity and digital analytics to provide internal users with streamlined decision‑ready information.


• Partner with executive leadership and CFO as owner of financial analysis that shapes enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities and resource allocation, providing fact‑based perspectives on growth, returns, risk and capital productivity.


• Support Board and executive strategy discussions with clear, decision‑ready scenarios and value‑creation narratives, and integrated scenario planning tied to macroeconomic, supply chain, FX and geopolitical risk.


• Partner with ABM, business and finance leaders to connect key financial value drivers throughout the organisation, creating transparency and linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes and opportunities for best‑practice acceleration.


• Provide Investor Relations and the CFO with external‑facing support on guidance frameworks, long‑term value‑creation narratives and the linkage between operational performance and financial outcomes.


• Drive best practice across the company’s global finance organization through active use of ABM tools and methodology.

Major Duties – Continuation

Team Leadership, Enterprise Influence and Collaboration

• Act as a player‑coach to build, lead, and scale a high‑performing Corporate FP&A Centre of Excellence across planning, forecasting, analytics and performance management.


• Establish clear enterprise methodologies, standards and scalable development paths that enable consistency while supporting accountability and autonomy across the portfolio.


• Recruit, mentor and retain diverse, high‑calibre finance talent, building a strong Finance Community of Practice and succession plans.


• Establish best‑practice approach to scale predictive forecasting, pricing and margin analytics, working capital optimisation and other high‑impact insights.


• Role‑model integrity, inclusion and safety, fostering a culture of partnership, accountability, curiosity and continuous improvement.


• Operate with exceptional collaboration, communication and indirect influencing skills to drive alignment across units and functions in a decentralized, matrixed environment.


• Partner with business and finance leaders to identify risks, strengthen forecasting and execution discipline and accelerate best‑practice adoption.


• Support enterprise communications – MBRs, QBRs, Board, Investor Day – ensuring coherent narrative and consistent metrics.

M&A and Other Support

• Act as key partner in Capital Allocation working group to create clarity on internal and external investment criteria and scenarios supportive of shareholder value creation.


• Partner with Corporate ABM, Corporate Development, Strategy, Treasury, Tax and Legal on M&A/divestitures/partnerships: market models, synergy/value cases, diligence, valuation and integration KPIs.


• Ensure planning/reporting processes meet SOX/ICFR and policy requirements; maintain alignment with accounting standards on performance reporting.


• Maintain enterprise policies and controls for planning, forecasting and financial governance; periodically test adherence and remediate gaps.

Compliance

• Ensure that all functional activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct and professional standards.


• Adhere to all health and safety rules and procedures.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or related field.


• MBA, CFA, and/or CPA strongly preferred.

Skills and Experience

• Expert financial modelling: driver‑based and scenario planning; variance analysis and KPI design.


• Mastery of financial platforms (SAP, JDE, OneStream) and BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) with ability to identify and utilise new AI tools for digital finance, including Databricks.


• Advanced data analytics skills and proven experience maturing data liquidity.


• 15+ years progressive finance experience, including significant leadership of enterprise or multi‑segment FP&A functions in complex, global organisations.


• Proven leadership of a corporate FP&A function in a global, multi‑segment industrial/automation enterprise.


• Demonstrated impact on forecast accuracy, cycle‑time reduction, margin expansion and cash conversion.


• Proven success in strong business partnering and driving continuous improvement.

Work Location

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
Charlotte, NC

Why Join ATS?

• Be a part of a thriving organization that is a global leader in advanced automation solutions.


• Collaborate with other bright, talented professionals focused on innovation and continuous improvement.


• Discover opportunities for growth within ATS as we strive to develop, engage, empower, and energise our people.


• Make an impact and give back to our communities in a meaningful way.


• Work in a safe, positive, and inclusive environment where everyone is respected and given the opportunity to do their best.


• Enjoy an attractive compensation package including flexible work schedules (where applicable).


• And much more!

Compensation will be based on the local job market and may vary depending on factors such as the job‑related knowledge, skills, experience of the selected candidate, as well as other objective business considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, such as an annual cash incentive in addition to a full range of medical, retirement and other benefits. Details of these benefit plans will be provided when the selected candidate receives an offer of employment.

This role represents an existing vacancy within the organization.

ATS is in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), 2005 and will, upon request, assist those who may require specific accommodations due to personal disability. We would ask those who require assistance to notify our offices as soon as possible if accommodation is necessary.

The ATS applicant tracking system may utilise AI software with pre‑defined, rule‑based filters to organise and manage application materials. Rule‑based filters operate solely on fixed criteria and do not perform autonomous evaluation or generate independent recommendations. All hiring decisions continue to involve human review and judgement.