This is a strategic leadership opportunity reporting to the VP Finance. The Director, FP&A will elevate StarTech.com's financial planning, forecasting, and commercial finance capabilities while transforming FP&A into a proactive, insight-driven business partner across the organization.

As a key member of the Finance leadership team, you will lead enterprise-wide financial planning, executive reporting, pricing and costing analysis, and business performance management. Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, Supply Chain, Operations, HR, and Executive Leadership, you will translate complex financial data into actionable business insights that improve decision-making, drive profitable growth, and shape the future of StarTech.com.

This position is ideal for an experienced FP&A leader who enjoys building capabilities, influencing executive strategy, and leading transformation rather than simply maintaining existing processes.

What you will be responsible for:

• Lead Enterprise Financial Planning & Forecasting
  • Own and continuously improve StarTech.com's annual budgeting process and rolling forecasts.
  • Develop and maintain three-year revenue and P&L plans across countries, product categories, buying centers, and customer segments.
  • Build scenario models (base, best and worst case) that support executive and board-level decision making.
  • Improve forecast accuracy while increasing visibility into future business performance.
• Deliver Executive Business Insights
  • Partner with Executive Leadership to provide meaningful financial analysis that influences strategic decisions.
  • Build executive reporting and dashboards that clearly communicate business performance, trends, risks and opportunities.
  • Translate complex financial information into concise, actionable recommendations.
  • Identify and prioritize the business issues with the greatest financial impact.
• Drive Commercial Finance & Gross Margin Performance
  • Partner with Product, Sales and Supply Chain to improve pricing, costing and gross margin performance.
  • Analyze the financial impact of tariffs, sourcing strategies, pricing decisions and product mix.
  • Develop commercial finance frameworks that support sustainable profitability.
  • Support sourcing optimization and inventory planning initiatives.
• Build the Future of FP&A
  • Modernize FP&A processes, reporting and planning capabilities across the organization.
  • Lead the redesign of enterprise KPIs and performance measurement.
  • Improve how StarTech measures commercial success and business performance.
  • Build a proactive, strategic FP&A function that partners closely with business leaders.
• Lead and develop the FP&A Team
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to the FP&A team.
  • Establish priorities, organize work and develop team capabilities.
  • Foster a collaborative, curious and ownership-minded culture within Finance.
     

Why join StarTech.com?

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Finance at StarTech.com.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Build a modern FP&A function rather than inherit a mature one.
• Partner directly with the Executive Leadership Team on strategic decisions.
• Influence pricing, profitability, forecasting, commercial strategy and long-term planning.
• Lead high-impact initiatives including:
  • Enterprise KPI transformation
  • Three-year strategic planning
  • Go-to-market performance measurement
  • Gross margin optimization
  • Pricing and sourcing strategy
  • Inventory optimization
• Gain broad exposure across every commercial function of a growing global business.
   

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline.
• 8 - 12 years of progressive finance experience with at least 4-5 years in FP&A leadership or senior individual contributor role.
• Proven experience leading Financial Planning & Analysis within a global organization.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership to influence business decisions.
• Strong commercial finance experience including pricing, forecasting and business performance analysis.
• Advanced financial modeling and forecasting expertise.
• Experience leading annual planning cycles and multi-year financial planning.
• Strong understanding of gross margin, pricing, costing and operational finance.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience using Power BI (or similar Business Intelligence tools).
• Experience working with ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics experience is considered an asset).
• Outstanding executive communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and organize high-performing teams.
• Naturally curious, proactive and comfortable working in a fast-changing business environment.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA, CPA or CMA designation.
• Experience within technology hardware, distribution/channel focused business, industrial products, consumer products or other supply chain-intensive industries.
• Experience transforming FP&A processes and planning capabilities.
• Experience redesigning KPI frameworks and executive reporting.
• Experience supporting pricing strategy, sourcing optimization and commercial finance initiatives.
• Experience presenting financial recommendations to executive leadership and Boards.
• Experience within a high-growth, multi-national or private equity-backed organization.
   

What to expect from the Hiring Process:

We respect your time and value transparency. Here's a general idea of what to expect:

• Intro call with our Talent Acquisition Team (30-45 minutes)
• Interview with the Hiring Manager and an additional leader (45-60 minutes)
• Critical Thinking Assessment
• Business Simulation/Case study
• Final Executive interview with the President and another executive leader (~60 minutes)
• Offer & onboarding
   

What we offer:

This role offers a competitive salary along with eligibility to participate in our bonus program. At StarTech.com, we value fairness and regularly benchmark pay to stay competitive, recognizing each person's unique contributions.

As part of the StarTech.com "One Team," you'll also enjoy:

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Retirement savings plans
• Wellness Program
• Additional perks and rewards
   

About us

We are in the business of human-centered experiences starting with yours. We believe delivering on our promise of "hard-to-find, made easy" begins with an employee experience founded in opportunity, teamwork, empowerment, and curious minds always asking what if. Not only does our commitment to the exceptional deepen relationships with our partners and customers, it also ignites connection within our team.

StarTech.com is a global leader in tech connectivity solutions, manufacturing a wide range of accessories designed to meet the demanding performance standards of IT professionals and businesses. Since 1985, the company has expanded into 28 markets across five continents, with products trusted by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. StarTech.com has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies by Deloitte for 16 consecutive years and is ranked in the top 5% of companies worldwide for sustainability by EcoVadis.

StarTech.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, StarTech.com will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.

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