Hire a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Get a pre-screened FP&A leader who has built operating models, annual budgets, and board reporting at your stage, matched to your ERP and planning stack in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi
Hire a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis when your leadership team is making budget, hiring, and spending decisions without a forecast anyone trusts.
Your forecast misses every quarter
Revenue and expense projections keep drifting from actuals, and nobody can explain the variance line by line.
The budget lives in one fragile spreadsheet
Your operating model was built by a founder or analyst, breaks when assumptions change, and has no driver logic behind headcount or revenue.
Board meetings turn into scrambles
Your CFO or controller spends days pulling the board deck together, and investors keep asking questions the numbers cannot answer.
You are raising or planning a big move
A fundraise, acquisition, or new market launch needs scenario models, runway analysis, and a defensible long-range plan.
Your FP&A leader just left
The annual budget cycle or reforecast is due and nobody on the team can own it end to end.
Planning data is scattered across systems
Actuals sit in NetSuite or QuickBooks, headcount in your HRIS, and pipeline in your CRM, with no clean link into one plan.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi
A fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysis gives you senior ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, scoped to the planning work your business actually has right now.
Run board-grade FP&A on a part-time budget
Get a director who builds the three-statement model, runs the budget cycle, and walks your board through variances, without carrying a full-time salary, bonus, and benefits for a role you may only need part of the week.
Rebuild the forecast before next quarter closes
We match you with pre-screened FP&A operators in about 3 days, so your new director can start on the reforecast and cash runway model while a traditional search would still be screening resumes.
Pressure-test your model with a proven FP&A lead
Every operator has owned planning at companies like yours, whether that means SaaS cohort and ARR models, multi-entity consolidations, or unit economics, across tools like NetSuite, Adaptive, Anaplan, and Excel.
How to hire a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Director of Financial Planning and Analysi
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi rates average $160/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Director of Financial Planning and Analysi Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Director of Financial Planning and Analysi leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Director of FP&A | Full-time Director of FP&A | Outsourced accounting / finance firm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days to match | 3-6 months | 2-6 weeks |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary + bonus + benefits | Hourly or project billing with markup |
| Ownership of the model | One senior operator owns forecast and budget | Full ownership, long-term | Rotating staff, often junior |
| Strategic input | Board, investor, and exec-level planning | Board, investor, and exec-level planning | Mostly bookkeeping, close, and reporting |
| Flexibility | Scale up for budget season or a raise | Fixed headcount cost | Bound by contract scope |
| Best for | Growing companies needing senior FP&A without full-time cost | Large finance teams with steady planning load | Transactional accounting and compliance work |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Having someone senior from day one as a founder means you're actually hiring yourself out of a job, not transferring that amount of work to essentially management of someone junior, which can only be as often just as much work or only slightly less work.”
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