Position Title: Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis
Department: Corporate Finance
Reports To: CFO
The Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) leads enterprise planning and analytics, and performance management, with clear accountability for building and embedding standard FP&A work and a scalable enterprise financial data backbone that improves consistency of visibility, insight and action across the organization. This role partners closely with the CFO, CEO, business finance, operations leaders and Corporate functional leaders to support disciplined capital allocation and ATS’ value creation agenda, ensuring a single source of truth in financial planning data across a diversified portfolio. A core mandate of this role is to simplify and continuously improve planning, forecasting and analysis approaches without adding incremental layers of process or complexity. The successful candidate will bring a depth of operational finance experience and a hands-on analytical approach to this role, owning readily available, decision-ready insights, and will leverage the ATS Business Model (“ABM”) continuous improvement tools to drive analytical efficiency and effectiveness in a fast-changing technology/ AI environment, with clear ownership of FP&A processes and outcomes. Prior experience in a global, publicly traded company operating in a decentralized environment and extensive experience and knowledge in creating and owning financial models incorporating financial risk, competitive analysis, market intelligence, and external benchmarking, along with knowledge of accounting systems, budgets, internal controls, general business planning, M&A and capital management are critical requirements for this role.
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 cross the portfolio.
Financial Planning & Analysis, Finance Transformation
- Lead the enterprise long-range financial plan, as well as the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecast, with clear ownership for 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 timely decision making with accountability for high-quality trade-off analysis.
- 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 across business groups.
- 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; own Corporate modeling, planning and FP&A reporting processes; accountability for simplifying and standardizing processes and tools, including through shared service finance offerings.
- Partner with business operations and finance leaders to advance maturity in data liquidity and digital analytics to provide internal data users with streamlined access to decision-ready information through a clear data liquidity framework supportive of accountability and autonomy of businesses within the portfolio.
- Partner with executive leadership team and CFO as the owner of financial analysis that shapes enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, and resource allocation, providing fact‑based perspectives on growth, returns, and 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 organization to create transparency and linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes across the business, and opportunities for support and best-practice acceleration on high-impact margin, cash, and productivity programs and early‑warning analytics for execution and investment risk across the portfolio.
- 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.
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, spanning enterprise planning, forecasting, analytics, and performance management.
- Establish clear enterprise methodologies, standards, and scalable development paths that enable consistency while supporting accountability and autonomy across ATS’ decentralized portfolio.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain diverse, high‑caliber finance talent, and—working with the CFO and Finance Leadership Team—build a strong Finance Community of Practice, clear succession plans, and measurable bench strength for critical FP&A roles.
- Establish best practice approach to scale predictive forecasting, pricing and margin analytics, working capital optimization, and other high‑impact insights as enterprise FP&A foundations mature.
- Role‑model integrity, inclusion, and commitment to safety, and foster a culture of business partnership, accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement across the global finance organization.
- With a strong business‑partnering mindset, operate with exceptional collaboration, communication, and indirect influencing skills to drive alignment across business units and corporate functions in a highly decentralized, matrixed environment—often without direct authority.
- Partner closely with business and finance leaders to identify risks, strengthen forecasting and execution discipline, and accelerate best‑practice adoption.
- Support enterprise communications—including MBRs, QBRs, Board, and Investor Day—ensuring a coherent narrative, consistent metrics, and clear linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes across all segments.
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 ATS’ shareholder value creation agenda.
- 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 relevant accounting standards on performance reporting.
- Maintain enterprise policies & controls for planning, forecasting and financial governance; periodically test adherence and remediate gaps with group finance leaders, ensuring governance enables clarity, consistency and accountability without unnecessary process overhead.
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
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
- MBA, CFA, and/or CPA strongly preferred.
Skills & Experience
- Expert financial modeling: 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 utilize new AI tools for digital finance, including Databricks.
- Advanced data analytics skills and proven experience maturing data liquidity.
- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership of enterprise or multi‑segment FP&A functions in complex, global organizations.
- Proven leadership of a corporate FP&A function in a global, multi-segment industrial/automation enterprise (matrix structures, multicurrency, etc.)
- Demonstrated impact on forecast accuracy, cycle time reduction, margin expansion, and cash conversion.
- Proven success in strong business partnering and driving continuous improvement.
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
Charlotte, NC
At ATS, it starts with our People!
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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
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- 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!
The Compensation offered 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. Subject to these 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/or other benefits. Details of these benefit plans will be provided when the selected job candidate receives an offer of employment.
This role represents an existing vacancy within the organization.
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