Position Summary The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;) will lead Tessolve's FP&A; agenda, enabling data-driven decision-making across semiconductor engineering services and solutions. This role owns planning, forecasting, management reporting, and performance insights across delivery, sales, and enabling functions, with a strong focus on services gross margin, utilization, project/program economics, pricing discipline, and working capital. The position partners closely with the CFO, BU heads, and delivery leadership to scale predictable performance through robust governance, analytics, and systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead Tessolve's annual operating plan (AOP), long-range plan (LRP), and rolling forecast processes across business units and functions.

- Own monthly business reviews (MBR/QBR) with explicit narratives on revenue, gross margin, utilization, project performance, opex, and cash drivers.

- Partner with Sales/Business Development and Delivery leaders on pipeline health, bookings, and revenue conversion; translate pipeline into forecast with assumptions and risk/upsides.

- Drive services gross margin improvements through mix analysis, rate realization, utilization levers, subcontractor governance, and delivery productivity initiatives.

- Build and maintain project/program financials (revenue, cost, margin, milestones) and provide early-warning indicators on scope creep, slippages, and recoveries.

- Strengthen working capital governance—billing discipline, collections cadence, and DSO reduction—working with Delivery, Finance Ops, and shared services.

- Standardize FP&A; processes, reporting packs, and KPI dashboards; drive automation and data quality improvements in partnership with IT/Finance systems.





- Partner with Controllership to ensure appropriate accounting alignment, including revenue recognition considerations and reconciliations between management and statutory views.

- Develop governance for allocations, rate cards, and cost standards; ensure consistent assumptions, controls, and auditability across business units.

- Lead, coach, and scale the FP&A; team; establish operating rhythms and executive-ready insights for the CFO and leadership team.

Qualifications

- CA with strong understanding of Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business.

- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including senior FP&A; leadership within an engineering services, technology services, or semiconductor ecosystem.

- Demonstrated ownership of planning/forecasting, executive reporting, and business partnering across Sales and Delivery, including project/program economics.

- Experience building and leading teams, including hiring, performance management, and talent development.

Required Skills & Competencies

- Expert financial modeling and analytical skills, including scenario planning, and driver-based forecasting.

- Executive communication: ability to translate data into clear insights, options, and recommendations.

- Strong business acumen with ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge assumptions constructively.





- Strong understanding of services P&L; levers (utilization, rate realization, mix, subcontracting) and project/program margin management.

- Advanced proficiency with Excel;

experience with ERP/EPM/BI tools and dashboarding to track utilization, margin, backlog, and cash metrics (tool-agnostic).

- Process orientation with ability to design scalable, controlled planning and reporting processes.

- People leadership strengths: coaching, performance management, team operating rhythms, and cross-functional collaboration.

- High integrity and discretion; ability to handle confidential information with sound judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

- CPA/CMA or similar certification.

- Experience in a high-growth environment and/or large matrixed organization; exposure to multi-entity, multi-region planning.

- Prior ownership of EPM implementation or major process transformation (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Hyperion, SAP BPC, etc.).

- Experience in services finance transformation, including standardization of utilization/margin reporting and automation of MBR/QBR packs.

Key Stakeholders & Working Relationships

- CFO and Finance Leadership Team

- Business Unit Heads and Delivery Leadership (Engineering, Embedded, Validation/Test, Program Management)

- Sales/Business Development and Account Management (pipeline, pricing, deal reviews, commercial governance)

- HR (workforce/capacity planning, hiring plans, compensation inputs)

- PMO and Delivery Operations (project governance, timesheets, utilization, subcontractor and vendor spend)

- Controllership/Finance Operations and IT/Finance Systems (billing, collections, data governance, reporting automation)

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