Director, Financial Data Strategy & Analytics

The Director, Financial Data Strategy and Analytics is a hybrid finance, analytics, and systems leadership role responsible for defining the firm's financial data strategy, analytics framework, and planning enablement as the organization scales toward $1B+ in revenue.

This role operates at the intersection of FP&A, data, BI, EPM, and corporate IT, guiding the alignment of financial and project data to support consistency, governance, scalability, and enterprise usability.

The role evolves a senior FP&A leader from hands-on analytics into a strategic leader of financial intelligence, supporting the continued development of Finance data and systems capabilities over time.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you're an experienced professional or a new graduate, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

As the firm grows in size, complexity, and geographic reach, this role enables Finance to scale insight and control without proportional increases in manual effort or headcount. The Director enables leadership to confidently manage utilization, margin, backlog, and long-range growth through trusted data, integrated systems, and standardized analytics.

Key Responsibilities:

Own and govern enterprise financial and project data used across FP&A, operations, and executive reporting.
• Establish standards and governance processes to ensure consistency and reliability of financial data across systems.
• Define and maintain standards for Project structures, cost classifications, and labor categories.
• Establish durable data governance processes that scale through growth, system changes, and acquisitions.
• Transition finance from reactive data cleanup to upstream data quality and control.
• Serve as the primary steward within Finance for aligning data, analytics, and system capabilities with business and operational needs.

• Partner with Finance leadership to enable scalable planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
• Guide the development of data models that support forecasts, margin sensitivity analysis and growth scenarios.
• Support executive and board reporting with consistent, trusted, and timely insights.
• Ensure finance analytics align with strategic priorities and growth initiatives.

• Own BI strategy, standards, and adoption across Financial Operations.
• Enable data-driven financial decision-making through consistent, governed analytics.
• Establish governance over reporting logic, definitions, and metric standardization across Finance and Operations.
• Ensure alignment between BI outputs and financial reporting standards used in executive and operational decision-making.

• Define the roadmap for EPM platforms supporting planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Partner with Finance IT and Corporate IT to improve system usability, integration, and overall effectiveness.
• Guide the prioritization of enhancements and process improvements to reduce manual workflows and increase scalability.
• Lead finance requirements and business alignment for system enhancements, upgrades, and vendor partnerships.

• Provide strategic direction for financial data architecture connecting ERP, CRM, and HR systems.
• Partner closely with Corporate IT on:
  • Data pipelines and integrations
  • Cloud data platforms
  • Security, controls, and scalability
• Act as Finance's primary advocate in enterprise system and data decisions ensuring alignment between financial data requirements and enterprise data architecture priorities.

• Provide strategic direction on prioritization of finance-related system and data initiatives to ensure alignment with business and operational objectives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Finance, IT, and business leadership on data and analytics matters.
• Mentor finance and analytics talent toward hybrid FP&A / data skillsets.
• Collaborate with Finance IT, BI, and analytics resources to align priorities, sequencing, and delivery of system and data initiatives.
• Influence and support the evolution of finance systems and data capabilities as the organization matures. Execution of system maintenance, issue resolution, and technical delivery remains the responsibility of Finance IT and supporting technology teams.
• Support the continued evolution of Finance data, analytics, and system capabilities, including potential expansion of team structure as needs grow.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in FP&A, financial analytics, finance systems, or data leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of projectbased financials and professional services economics (A&E preferred).
• Hands-on experience with BI tools, EPM platforms, and financial data models.
• Proven ability to bridge finance, data, and IT disciplines.

• MBA or advanced degree in a related field.
• Experience with multientity environments and acquisition integration.
• Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms and enterprise analytics architectures.

• Improved trust and consistency in financial and operational reporting
• Increased adoption of BI and selfservice analytics
• Improved efficiency and scalability of financial processes through enhanced systems and data alignment
• Faster planning, forecasting, and insight delivery
• Scalable integration of new systems, entities, or acquisitions

Don't meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employee's. So if you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

* At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry's background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

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