FP&A Leader - High Growth PE Backed Industrial Services Company

Fp&A Leader

Ascension Search Partners has been retained by a high growth industrial services company who is seeking an FP&A Leader to elevate financial planning, performance visibility, and strategic decision support. This highly visible role will partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to turn complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations that drive profitable growth.

This is an opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to build scalable planning practices, influence critical business decisions, and help shape the organization's next stage of growth.

The Impact

• Strengthen financial planning: Build and improve forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, and long-range planning processes that give leaders a reliable view of future performance.
• Turn data into decisions: Connect financial results with operational drivers, identify emerging trends, and translate findings into clear, actionable executive recommendations.
• Create meaningful performance visibility: Develop practical KPIs, dashboards, and management reporting that highlight business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Improve operating performance: Partner with operational and functional leaders to evaluate profitability, resource allocation, project economics, working capital, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Support strategic decisions: Deliver fact-based analysis for pricing, investments, growth initiatives, market opportunities, and other high-impact business decisions.
• Elevate executive reporting: Prepare concise, decision-ready financial materials that clearly communicate performance, outlook, key drivers, and recommended actions to senior leadership.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• At least five years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities, along with experience working with complex data and financial, planning, reporting, or business-intelligence platforms.
• Strong business judgment and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional leaders and explain financial insights to non-financial audiences.
• Experience supporting a multi-location, project-based, field-services, construction, or similarly operational organization is strongly preferred.