Director - Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

About This Position

Igloo Products Corp. is an iconic, fast-growing American brand known for its exceptional and durable coolers designed to meet everyday needs. For more than 75 years, Igloo has been a leader in the housewares industry and has evolved into a high-growth lifestyle brand, inspiring outdoor experiences centered around fun, family, and friends.

Founded in 1947 as a metalworking shop that brought fresh cold water to Texas workers in the field, and later inventing the Playmate, Igloo has grown into America’s most recognizable brand of ice chests. The Igloo story spans more than 75 years of delivering coolness to the world. Today, Igloo has over 90% brand awareness, is #1 in market share in the U.S., and is a pioneer in sustainability within its category through the launch of biodegradable coolers and products made with post-consumer recycled resin and other sustainable materials. Igloo also has a growing direct-to-consumer (DTC) business, allowing us to build direct relationships with our consumers. In 2021, Igloo was acquired by Dometic Brands, creating the opportunity to globally grow both brands together.

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will lead enterprise planning, forecasting, performance management, and decision support, with a strong emphasis on manufacturing finance, cost accounting, plant performance, and margin expansion. This leader will partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Product Development, and the divisional controllers to translate operational drivers into financial outcomes and actionable business decisions.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director will establish rigorous planning and reporting processes, strengthen product and manufacturing cost visibility, and provide forward-looking insights that support profitable growth, cash generation, and disciplined capital allocation. The role requires a hands-on finance leader who can operate strategically while maintaining command of plant-level economics and accounting fundamentals.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

FP&A Leadership and Business Partnership

• Own the annual operating plan, long-range plan, monthly forecasting, and periodic reforecasting processes across functions and operating locations.
• Lead monthly business performance reviews, converting financial and operational results into clear insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Build driver-based financial models for revenue, volume, price, mix, labor, material, overhead, freight, inventory, and capital investment.
• Partner with executive and functional leaders to evaluate business cases, strategic initiatives, commercial opportunities, and productivity programs.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and development to the FP&A team, with clear accountability for analytical quality, timeliness, and business impact.

Manufacturing Finance and Cost Accounting

• Lead financial analysis for manufacturing operations, including plant performance, conversion cost, capacity utilization, labor efficiency, material usage, scrap, yield, downtime, and overhead absorption.
• Own and continuously improve standard costing governance, including annual cost rolls, bills of material, routings, labor and overhead rates, and the review of cost standards with Operations and Engineering.
• Analyze and explain purchase price, material usage, labor efficiency, volume, mix, overhead absorption, and other manufacturing variances; drive corrective actions with plant and supply chain leaders.
• Partner with controllership to ensure inventory valuation, reserves, capitalization, and cost-of-goods-sold reporting are accurate, timely, and aligned with company accounting policies.
• Develop product, customer, channel, and SKU profitability views that reflect manufacturing complexity, freight, sourcing, and cost-to-serve.
• Support make-versus-buy, sourcing, network optimization, footprint, automation, and capital expenditure decisions through robust financial analysis and post-investment reviews.
• Establish consistent plant KPIs and dashboards to identify cost reduction, working capital, throughput, and margin improvement opportunities.

Reporting, Controls, and Performance Management

• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reporting packages, including consolidated operating results, financial position, KPI trends, and concise variance explanations.
• Ensure monthly results are loaded accurately into Dometic consolidation and reporting systems and that reporting aligns with Dometic financial standards.
• Work closely with divisional controllers to maintain clear ownership between FP&A, cost accounting, and financial accounting activities.
• Strengthen data quality, reporting automation, and management dashboards to create a reliable and scalable source of financial and operational insight.
• Provide timely communication and escalation of performance issues, forecast changes, control concerns, and emerging business risks.

Commercial and Strategic Decision Support

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Ecommerce, and Product Development on pricing, promotions, customer economics, new product introductions, and portfolio decisions.
• Provide detailed analysis of gross margin, contribution margin, freight, rebates, discounts, and cost-to-serve by customer, channel, and product.
• Track key strategic initiatives, quantify expected and realized benefits, and maintain transparent reporting on milestones and financial outcomes.
• Develop executive-ready presentations for management, ownership, lenders, and other stakeholders as required.

What do we offer?

1. Medical
2. Dental
3. Vision
4. Life Insurance
5. Short term & Long-term disability
6. Accidental death insurance
7. Supplemental life insurance
8. Company paid holidays
9. Flexible Spending Accounts

Minimum Requirements and Qualifications

A suitable background would be a solid experience within the following qualifications and experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience in manufacturing finance, FP&A, and cost accounting.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience with demonstrated success building high-performing finance teams.
• Deep knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, gross margin analysis, and plant performance management.
• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations and partnering directly with plant, supply chain, procurement, and commercial leaders.
• Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, management reporting, and advanced Excel.
• Ability to communicate complex financial and operational topics clearly to senior leaders and non-financial stakeholders.
• Demonstrated record of improving processes, controls, data quality, and decision-support capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification.
• Consumer products or durable goods manufacturing experience.
• Experience with ERP, consolidation, planning, and business intelligence platforms in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading cost transformation, footprint optimization, productivity, or margin expansion initiatives.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic and commercially minded, with the willingness to work at a detailed operational level.
• Credible partner to Operations and Controllership who balances performance improvement with financial discipline.
• Curious, analytical, and decisive; able to challenge assumptions constructively and turn analysis into action.
• Director, Financial Planning & Analysis | Manufacturing Finance & Cost Accounting
• Comfortable leading through change, ambiguity, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

And of course – our Core Values

To thrive and succeed in this role, you understand the importance of our core values – Together We build our future, We play to win, We embrace change and We walk the talk; these values reflect the heart and soul of Dometic and they define what it takes to work here and how we do things.

Are you our next star? Then we would love to see your application.

Dometic is passionate about building together an inclusive and equitable working environment, that respects individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that diversity enables us to thrive across our differences. Be yourself and join us!

Igloo offers equal opportunities for everyone. Equal opportunities mean that all employees shall be treated according to their abilities and qualifications in every employment decision, including but not limited to hiring, advancement, compensation benefits, training, lay-offs and termination. Any form of discrimination or harassment against employees due to personal factors, such as gender, ethnicity, skin color, age, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability and pregnancy or employees with family responsibilities is prohibited.

All applicants must be at least 18 years old and legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis.

Igloo supports and respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights. We do not tolerate child labor or any form of modern slavery, including forced, bonded or compulsory labor, physical or psychological punishment or human trafficking.