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Executive Director, CPS BU Finance Partner

Fortrea
United States, North Carolina, Durham
Apr 21, 2026
Job Overview: The Executive Director, Finance CPS is a senior finance leader at Fortrea, responsible for leading financial strategy, insight generation, and governance for the CPS business unit. This role serves as the primary finance partner to CPS operational leadership, owning business unit level financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight while ensuring alignment with enterprise financial standards and priorities. This role is intentionally focused on strategic business partnership and decision support. The Executive Director brings strong executive presence and business judgment, translating complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights that influence investment decisions, operational discipline, and long-term value creation across the CPS portfolio. Summary of Responsibilities: Business Unit Financial Leadership and Governance * Own financial leadership for the CPS business unit, ensuring rigor, consistency, and transparency across budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. * Serve as the single point of accountability for CPS financial results, in close partnership with CPS Operations leadership. * Ensure CPS financial plans and forecasts align with enterprise objectives, governance standards, and reporting expectations. Strategic Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting * Lead CPS budgeting and forecasting processes, integrating volume, cost, capital, and margin drivers into forward looking plans. * Drive high quality financial insight generation to support CPS clinical operations, including Phase 1 clinic performance and clinical research units (CRUs) operating as investigator sites. * Identify risks, opportunities, and performance inflection points, proactively elevating insights to CPS and enterprise leadership. Embedded Business Partnership and Decision Support * Operate as an embedded finance partner to CPS leadership, providing financial perspective and challenge on operational and strategic decisions. * Translate business complexity into executive-ready financial insights that support growth, margin, and capital allocation decisions. * Support segment level FP&A analysis and P&L ownership in partnership with operational leaders. Capital and Cost Discipline * Lead capital planning, investment prioritization, capacity expansion and cost discipline initiatives within CPS. * Ensure financial accountability for capital deployment and operating expense management while enabling growth and operational excellence. Executive Influence and Collaboration * Partner closely with peer Executive Directors across Business and Corporate Finance to ensure enterprise alignment. * Influence enterprise finance standards and priorities through strong collaboration with the SVP of Business Finance and other Finance leadership. Leadership and Talent Development * Develop and lead a high performing CPS finance team with strong analytical capability, executive communication, and commercial acumen. * Mentor senior finance leaders and high potential talent, reinforcing enterprise mindset and strategic partnership behaviors. Qualifications (Minimum Required): * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required. MBA, CPA, or equivalent preferred. * 12+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including direct responsibility for business unit finance or divisional FP&A. Experience (Minimum Required): * Demonstrated experience partnering with senior operational leaders and influencing strategic decisions. * Strong background in budgeting, forecasting, P&L ownership, and performance management within complex operating environments. * Proven ability to translate detailed financial data into executive level insights, storytelling with data and providing actionable recommendations. * Exceptional executive presence, judgment, and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications: Experience within CRO, life sciences, healthcare services, or similarly complex, project based global organizations. Working knowledge of project based financial models and revenue recognition dynamics. Experience operating in a public company environment with enterprise governance expectations. Physical Demands / Work Environment: Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international. Physical Requirements: Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Light to moderate lifting and carrying, or moving of objects, including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. Regular and consistent attendance. Application Deadline: May 15, 2026 #LI-LL1 Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.