Interim FP&A Leader (Contractor)

Short-term, full-time FP&A Leader (contract)

Short-term, full-time FP&A Leader (contract) to cover the VP, FP&A role through budget season and bridge the team until a permanent hire is onboarded. This hands-on, tactical role will own the end-to-end budget and planning process across multiple business units (membership and events, subscription/SaaS, media), coordinate closely with business unit leaders and executive leadership based in the Washington, D.C. area, and work primarily in Adaptive (ERP/NetSuite experience a plus). Engagement is expected to begin immediately, run for several months (~3–4 months), and require approximately 40 hours per week with periodic onsite presence in the Washington, D.C. area. Target contractor rate up to approximately $185/hour.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the annual budget and near-term planning process across multiple business units, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with leadership.
• Coordinate and drive inputs from business unit leaders; facilitate planning workshops and decision meetings.
• Build, review, and refine detailed financial models, assumptions, and drivers for revenue, costs, and headcount by unit.
• Execute forecasting, scenario analysis, and sensitivity modeling to support leadership decision-making during budget season.
• Maintain and operate planning tools (Adaptive) to consolidate budgets, manage versions, and produce rollups and reports.
• Reconcile planning outputs with ERP data (e.g., NetSuite) where required and support cleanup related to post-acquisition integration efforts.
• Partner with the existing Director of FP&A and oversee/mentor the distributed analyst team to ensure high-quality unit-level planning and deliverables.
• Produce executive-level presentations, variance analyses, and actionable insights for the leadership team.
• Ensure adherence to budget timelines, documentation of assumptions, and a clean handoff/transition to the incoming permanent FP&A leader.

Qualifications

• Proven FP&A leader with strong hands-on budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling experience (senior manager/VP-level or equivalent FP&A contractor background).
• Deep practical experience with Adaptive (planning tool) — required; ERP experience strongly preferred (examples: NetSuite).
• Demonstrated success running cross-business-unit budgeting processes, especially in subscription/SaaS and events/media or similar multi-model businesses.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; comfortable building and validating driver-based models and scenario analyses.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; experience facilitating planning with business leaders and presenting to executives.
• Ability to start immediately and commit to a full-time, ~40-hour/week engagement for several months; willing to be onsite periodically in the Washington, D.C. area.
• Experience working through post-acquisition integration/cleanup and coordinating with distributed teams (including offshore analysts) is a plus.