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Pre-screened Directors of Financial Planning and Analysis matched to your business in as little as 3 days. No recruiter fees, no full-time overhead.
You do not need to wait until your finance team is overwhelmed to bring in a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. These are the signals that it is time to act.
Your annual planning process is manual, inconsistent, or producing numbers leadership does not trust. A Director of FP&A brings structure, rigor, and repeatable forecasting models that scale with the business.
Investors and board members expect clean financial models, scenario analysis, and clear KPIs. Bringing in an experienced FP&A director before these moments ensures your numbers tell a compelling and credible story.
Access senior FP&A leadership on a flexible engagement, so you get the financial rigor and strategic insight your business needs without the cost and timeline of a full-time executive search.
Get executive-level financial planning and analysis leadership, including budgeting, forecasting, and board-ready reporting, without the full-time salary, bonus, and benefits package.
Pre-screened operators are ready to engage. Most clients are matched to a qualified Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in as little as 3 days, not 3 months.
Every operator is pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters on track record, references, and hands-on FP&A leadership across industries, company stages, and financial systems.
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.
Book a free 20-minute discovery call with one of our executive recruiters to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Within days, we'll introduce you to a short-list of pre-screened Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi candidates to interview, each pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters before you meet them. Our match success rate is 98%.
Finalize contract details with Go Fractional and get working within less than a week of your discovery call.
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.
Trial a Fractional Director of Financial Planning and Analysi on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
Three ways to get Director of Financial Planning and Analysi leadership, and where each one wins.
| Factor | Fractional | Full-Time | Agency / Staffing Firm |
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| Time to Hire | ~3 days | 3 to 6 months | 2 to 5 weeks |
| Engagement Model | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary, bonus, and benefits | Markup on placed candidate or temp billing rate |
| Cost Profile | Fraction of full-time cost | High fixed overhead | Placement fee or ongoing markup |
| Best For | Flexible FP&A leadership, forecasting cycles, and strategic finance without full-time commitment |
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.”
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When department heads and the CFO are working from different numbers, strategic decisions suffer. A Director of FP&A creates a single source of financial truth and bridges the gap between finance and operations.
A departure, a leave of absence, or rapid growth can leave a critical gap in your financial planning capability. An interim or fractional director keeps forecasting, reporting, and analysis running without interruption.
If leadership is making decisions without reliable dashboards, variance analysis, or rolling forecasts, a Director of FP&A builds the infrastructure to give you real-time financial visibility.
As headcount, revenue, and complexity grow, ad hoc financial management creates risk. A fractional Director of FP&A provides the strategic finance layer your business needs to scale with confidence.
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 $149/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Director of Financial Planning and Analysi Hourly Rates| Stable, long-term finance leadership at scale |
| Volume hiring or short-term staff augmentation |
| Pre-Screened by Recruiters | Yes, before you meet them | Depends on search firm used | Varies widely by agency quality |
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| Conversion to Full-Time | Available via contract-to-hire | N/A | Typically carries a separate placement fee |
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“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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