The FP&A Lead is a highly analytical and hands-on finance professional responsible for delivering high-quality financial planning, analysis, and insights to support business decision-making. This role combines strong technical FP&A expertise, business partnership, and emerging leadership capability. As a trusted advisor to functional leaders, the FP&A Lead translates data into actionable insights, supports financial performance, and drives disciplined execution across planning and reporting processes. In addition, this role plays a key part in advancing digital finance capabilities-leveraging automation, data tools, and emerging technologies to improve efficiency, enhance insights, and modernize FP&A workflows. The ideal candidate is curious, proactive, and detail-oriented, with the ability to operate in ambiguity, challenge existing approaches, and continuously improve how work gets done. This role may oversee 1-3 team members and is expected to lead through ownership, strong execution, and collaborative influence.
Behind the smile! We are dedicated to safeguarding the health and financial stability of our employees and their loved ones. This commitment extends beyond the workplace to foster personal growth and holistic wellbeing. Our life-changing rewards package includes:
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This position requires that the applicant undergo a background check. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with any applicable federal, state or local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and/or New York Corrections Law Article 23-A.
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Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 22. $92,500 - $200,400
Build and maintain driver-based financial models, forecasts, and budgets to support planning, forecasting, and analytical rigor across assigned areas.
Own monthly reporting, forecasting, and annual planning processes, ensuring accuracy, integrity, timeliness, and continuous improvement of financial outputs.
Perform variance analysis, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis to enhance forecasting accuracy and deliver actionable financial insights.
Serve as a trusted finance partner to functional stakeholders, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations.
Evaluate trade-offs, investments, and operational decisions while proactively identifying risks and opportunities using data-driven insights.
Align financial plans with operational goals and performance targets to support effective business decision-making and execution.
Provide day-to-day guidance and mentorship to team members (1-3), fostering accountability, learning, high performance, and ongoing capability development.
Develop executive-ready reports, dashboards, and presentations while leveraging ERP/EPM systems and BI tools for analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights.
Drive automation, data quality, governance, and continuous enhancement of reporting processes while applying a "citizen data scientist" mindset to improve forecasting, identify trends, and enable predictive analysis.
Identify inefficiencies and drive process improvement by implementing standardized models, testing new analytical approaches, and ensuring disciplined, consistent execution across all deliverables.
Build and maintain driver-based financial models, forecasts, and budgets to support planning, forecasting, and analytical rigor across assigned areas.
Own monthly reporting, forecasting, and annual planning processes, ensuring accuracy, integrity, timeliness, and continuous improvement of financial outputs.
Perform variance analysis, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis to enhance forecasting accuracy and deliver actionable financial insights.
Serve as a trusted finance partner to functional stakeholders, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations.
Evaluate trade-offs, investments, and operational decisions while proactively identifying risks and opportunities using data-driven insights.
Align financial plans with operational goals and performance targets to support effective business decision-making and execution.
Provide day-to-day guidance and mentorship to team members (1-3), fostering accountability, learning, high performance, and ongoing capability development.
Develop executive-ready reports, dashboards, and presentations while leveraging ERP/EPM systems and BI tools for analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights.
Drive automation, data quality, governance, and continuous enhancement of reporting processes while applying a "citizen data scientist" mindset to improve forecasting, identify trends, and enable predictive analysis.
Identify inefficiencies and drive process improvement by implementing standardized models, testing new analytical approaches, and ensuring disciplined, consistent execution across all deliverables.
Delta Dental covers more Americans than any other dental benefits provider. As an employee you’ll take part in our mission to become the trusted health partner by collaborating with our communities and employees to reimagine and deliver new possibilities in an ever-changing environment. Our Enterprise Strategy focuses on pillars of Growth and Diversification, supported by the platforms of Culture and People, Process and Technology.
Our strategy is only as strong as the people who execute it. We’re hiring individuals that are not just right for today but also for our future. Delta Dental leaders optimistically share future possibilities to inspire and motivate others toward their full potential. We’ve built a foundation of high-trust by treating all people with dignity, making and keeping commitments and consistently striving to do the right thing. As we are working through transformation, we ask employees to find ways to embrace positive change, challenge the status quo to be curious and provide solutions to unmet problems. Joining Delta Dental means joining a culture focused on fostering development, building genuine connections, recognizing each other’s strengths and sharing in successes.
We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.
Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.