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Location: Huntsville, AL / Atlanta, GA
Department: Finance / Financial Planning & Analysis
Reports To: VP, Finance
Leadership Scope: Finance leaders and professionals supporting FP&A, business intelligence, reporting, financial systems, analytics, and related finance capabilities
Position Summary
ADTRAN is seeking a strategic, highly collaborative Senior Director of Finance to provide leadership across Financial Planning & Analysis, business performance management, financial systems and analytics, and finance transformation.
This role will serve as a key partner to the VP of Finance, CFO, and senior business leaders, connecting financial performance, operational drivers, strategic priorities, and resource allocation to improve business decision-making and long-term financial performance.
The Senior Director will lead and develop a team of finance leaders and professionals responsible for planning, forecasting, management reporting, business partnership, and financial analytics. The successful candidate will bring both strategic leadership and a builder mentality , establishing scalable processes and clear accountability while modernizing how Finance uses data, systems, automation, and artificial intelligence.
This leader must be equally comfortable discussing business performance with executives, challenging financial assumptions, developing talent, and working with teams to solve complex planning, reporting, data, and process issues.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Leadership & Executive Decision Support
Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the VP of Finance, CFO, and senior leadership, providing objective financial insights and recommendations that support strategic and operational decisions.
Translate financial and operational performance into clear executive-level narratives identifying underlying business drivers, risks, opportunities, and required actions.
Support strategic planning, resource allocation, investment decisions, and enterprise financial priorities.
Develop financial frameworks and scenario analyses that help leadership evaluate alternative strategies and business decisions.
Provide appropriate financial challenge to business assumptions and ensure decisions incorporate a fact-based view of financial and operational implications.
Support executive leadership, Board, and other senior management reviews with clear, accurate, decision-oriented financial analysis and materials.
Enterprise Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
Provide leadership and governance for the annual operating plan, long-range planning, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and recurring performance-management processes.
Establish consistent planning methodologies, assumptions, calendars, governance, and accountability across the organization.
Advance a driver-based planning model linking operating expenses, workforce, capital expenditures, cash, and other key operational drivers.
Improve forecasting effectiveness through disciplined assumptions, risk and opportunity management, scenario analysis, forecast validation, and post-forecast reviews.
Lead monthly and quarterly performance management processes, ensuring leadership understands not only variances to plan or forecast but also why performance changed and what actions should follow .
Develop consistent KPIs and performance-management frameworks that connect financial outcomes with underlying business drivers.
Business Partnership & Operational Finance
Lead the Finance partnership model across key business functions, including Sales, Operations,…