Director of FP&A

Location: Grand Prairie / Fort Worth, Texas
Company: J.C. Pace Ltd.

J.C. Pace Ltd. is seeking an experienced Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and management reporting supporting Traders Village and other PaceCo businesses as assigned.

This is a hands-on FP&A leadership role for someone who wants to understand how a business actually works—not simply report what happened after the fact. The Director will strengthen and advance the FP&A function by improving processes, reporting, analytical tools, and financial visibility as business needs evolve.

Working closely with senior financial and operating leadership, the Director will identify business drivers, test assumptions, evaluate trends, risks, and opportunities, and translate operating activity into meaningful financial insight and better decision-making.

We are looking for someone who is analytically strong, intellectually curious, self-directed, and comfortable asking the next question when the numbers do not tell the whole story. The successful candidate will take ownership of the FP&A function and bring the structure, discipline, and initiative needed to continue developing its capabilities.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of J.C. Pace Ltd., the Director of FP&A serves as a financial business partner to operating leadership, with primary responsibility for FP&A activities supporting Traders Village and additional PaceCo entities as assigned.

The position coordinates budgeting and forecasting, develops and maintains financial models, analyzes operating and financial performance, supports KPI development and reporting, and provides clear, actionable analysis for management decision-making.

Success in this role requires more than technical financial ability. The Director must develop a strong understanding of the businesses being supported while maintaining the analytical independence and objectivity necessary to evaluate results and constructively challenge assumptions.

• Lead and coordinate annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve financial models incorporating actual results, historical trends, seasonality, operating initiatives, and business assumptions.
• Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and other relevant benchmarks.
• Identify and quantify significant revenue, expense, profitability, and operating variances.
• Work directly with operating leaders to understand the business causes behind financial results and changes in outlook.
• Evaluate forecast assumptions, operating trends, risks, and opportunities and constructively challenge assumptions when supported by analysis.
• Develop scenario models and financial analyses to evaluate strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, promotions, capital investments, and other business opportunities.
• Identify key business drivers and connect operating activity to revenue, profitability, EBITDA, cash flow, and other financial outcomes.
• Develop and maintain KPI definitions, measurement methodologies, dashboards, and recurring performance reporting.
• Prepare financial analysis and reporting supporting senior management and Board presentations.
• Communicate the financial story behind business performance—what happened, why it happened, its financial impact, and what it may mean going forward.
• Partner with Accounting and the Controller to ensure FP&A reporting is reconciled to accurate financial results.
• Improve FP&A tools, models, reporting processes, data structures, dashboards, and automation.

Successful candidates will typically possess:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of progressive professional experience in finance, accounting, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience developing financial models, budgets, forecasts, and management reporting.
• Strong financial and business analysis skills with the ability to identify underlying business drivers and translate operating activity into financial implications.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience with ERP, financial reporting, and business intelligence systems.
• Ability to analyze complex information and communicate conclusions clearly to both financial and non-financial leaders.
• The ability to work independently and proactively, exercise sound judgment, pursue questions beyond the obvious answer, and constructively challenge assumptions using objective analysis.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and business-partnership skills.

Preferred qualifications include an MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant advanced degree or professional certification, along with experience in multi-location, seasonal, event-driven, attendance-driven, or weather-sensitive businesses.

Experience with Sage Intacct, Power BI, Tableau, or similar financial and business intelligence platforms is also preferred.

This is an onsite position operating primarily in an office environment, with the position based in either Grand Prairie or Fort Worth.

The Director of FP&A will work closely with financial and operating leadership and will need to spend enough time with the businesses being supported to understand their operations, revenue streams, cost structures, seasonality, and key performance drivers.

Occasional travel to company locations may be required.

This is a full-time, exempt professional position with a standard weekday office schedule.

Additional hours (including weekends) may occasionally be required during budget and forecasting cycles, month-end or quarter-end reporting, Board preparation, or other significant business requirements.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations.

Although employed by J.C. Pace Ltd., the Director of FP&A will work closely with the leadership of Traders Village and other PaceCo businesses, developing the financial insight needed to understand performance, evaluate decisions, and improve forecasting and planning.

This is a role for someone who wants to do more than produce reports. We are looking for a finance professional who wants to understand the business behind the numbers, ask good questions, develop useful analysis, and help leadership make better-informed decisions.

If you are an experienced FP&A professional who combines strong analytical skills with curiosity, independence, sound judgment, and a genuine interest in how businesses operate, we'd like to hear from you.