Head of Fp&a Dach

**Date**:Jul 5, 2025

**Location**: Oettingen, DE, 86732

**Company**:Jeld-Wen Inc.

JELD-WEN is currently seeking a Head of FP&A DACH to join our growing team.

**Role Summary and Purpose**

The role is designed to go beyond traditional Financial Planning and Analysis, acting as a proactive, data-driven strategic partner to the General Manager and providing DACH Leadership team with the financial insights and challenge necessary for achieving strategic goals.

The role should bridge finance and the business, leading the optimizing of financial outcomes for the Region (and Europe) through well-co-ordinated and informed recommendations, as well as ensuring consistent, timely and accurate understanding, reporting and analysis of business performance, including Key Performance Indicators and variance analysis.

The role will lead the creation of accurate in-year financial forecasts for the Region, along with the development of robust Annual Budgets and Strategic Plans that are based on clear insights, analysis and contributions from all functions within the Region, while working with Europe HQ FP&A team to drive consistency of approach.

The role will lead the development of a high-performing team of Business Partners / FP&A professionals in DACH, shifting the balance of activities and focus from reporting to business and decision support at all levels.

**Your Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities**
- To live by the JELD-WEN Values and lead by the JELD-WEN Leadership Model, to build businesses ethically and safely, to invest in people, to inspire customers through innovations, to deliver on our promises and to improve every day.
- To ensure adherence with all compliance standards and operate with integrity at all times.
- Lead effective Strategic **Business Partnering** within FP&A team to actively support and challenge DACH Leadership Team and Country Leadership Teams, ensuring appropriate Commercial Focus in decision making and good understanding of the drivers of Operational Performance and variances with appropriate analysis. Actively contribute to discussions on trade-offs, ensuring optimal business and financial decisions are being made for the benefit of DACH and Europe.
- Lead the development of the quality and consistency of **Period/Quarterly Reporting**for DACH, via Country FP&A teams, using effective KPIs and variance analysis to highlight areas of positive and negative performance, whilst driving consistency of approach with JW Europe standards.
- Lead the preparation of **Annual Budget/Plan/Strategy**, with the DACH Leadership Team, co-ordinating input, targets, guidance and alignment across all key Regional stakeholders, managing the process of Country & Region review and recommendations on deliverable outcomes. Work with Europe HQ FP&A team to improve reporting and processes.
- Lead the preparation of **Financial Business Forecasts**, for DACH, ensuring input from key Regional stakeholders, utilising historic trend analysis and forward-looking insights, to present an appropriate achievable Europe forecast, which includes key mitigating or accelerating actions.
- Develop and manage **Risk & Opportunities** process against current year targets with Country FP&A teams, using input from Country Leadership teams and Regional Functional Leadership.
- Lead the development of **Profitability Reporting** across the DACH business, ensuring consistency of definition and approach with Europe HQ and other country FP&A and providing visibility of Customer & Product profitability, with an end to end view of margin.
- **Team Leadership & Development** - lead and develop a strong FP&A team for the Region capable of being supportive and challenging Business Partners to all levels and functions within the Region, and providing high quality reporting, analytics and story-telling for their business area.
- Lead the evaluation of **Capital Projects** across the DACH business, to consistent standards, with appropriate financial support and review, whilst developing an appropriate post-implementation review process and ensuring benefits are captured within Budgets & Forecasts.
- Support **Special/Major Projects** within Region with appropriate financial expertise and guidance to ensure recommendations are based on sound and supportable financial assumptions, with appropriate sensitivity analysis.
- Lead the management of **Trade Working Capital** and **Free Cash Flow**for DACH businesses, collaborating with functions accountable for managing each area.

**Your Profile**:

- 5-7 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Business Partnering, or Strategic Finance within multi-site/multi-country organizations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with large, complex US GAAP matrix organizations is an advantage.
- In-depth understanding of P&L management, risk management, macro and microeconomic trends, and business frameworks to drive impactful financia