[Hiring] Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis @Progressive Leasing

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis to lead FP&A for Purchasing Power at a pivotal moment for the business. This is a build-and-transform role for a retail-savvy, AI-forward finance leader who can modernize how the business plans, forecasts, and makes decisions while partnering closely with senior leadership.

• Lead financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting with a strong emphasis on operational alignment and execution.
• Serve as the financial partner to leaders across merchandising, operations, technology, and servicing, providing real-time insight and decision support.
• Drive visibility into unit economics, customer and cohort behavior, margins, and operational KPIs, and translate insights into actions that improve performance.
• Build and modernize forecasting models, operational reporting, and dashboards tied directly to business drivers.
• Lead adoption of AI and automation across FP&A to streamline recurring work, surface trends, pressure-test assumptions, and create capacity for higher-value analysis.
• Set the vision for an AI-forward finance function by identifying high-value use cases, evaluating tools, and establishing practical, responsible workflows.
• Support scenario planning and investment analysis to help leaders weigh trade-offs and prioritize initiatives.
• Partner with Accounting and central PROG finance teams to ensure accuracy and alignment of financial data and reporting.
• Build scalable, right-sized processes for a growing business, balancing structure with agility.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, fostering accountability, curiosity, continuous improvement, and thoughtful adoption of new tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, operational finance, or related roles, including leading and developing teams.
• Proven retail experience is required, with a strong understanding of unit economics, gross margin management, merchandising and assortment strategy, promotional planning, and customer cohort performance.
• Proven ability to partner closely with business leaders and influence operational decisions.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical capabilities, with the ability to connect financial outcomes to operational drivers and strategy.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, executive-ready insight.
• Comfort operating in high-growth, mid-sized, or dynamic environments with a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or professional certification such as CPA or CFA preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle or Workday is important.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; familiarity with data tools such as SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or Snowflake highly valued.

Requirements

• Hands-on, practical use of AI or large-language-model tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot to accelerate finance and analytical work.
• Experience piloting or deploying AI- or automation-enabled forecasting, variance analysis, or reporting workflows.
• A clear point of view on how AI is reshaping the finance function, with a track record of leading adoption by example.
• Comfort evaluating tools and designing practical, responsible AI workflows a team can rely on.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, company-paid Basic Life/AD&D.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan.
• Paid Time Off.
• Career Development.
• Employee Purchase Program.

Company Description

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. With more than 20 years in FinTech, we’ve grown from start-up to industry leader by innovating, simplifying, and valuing people. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a FinTech holding company with three business segments: Progressive Leasing, Purchasing Power, and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later platform.