Position Summary:
The VP Finance will be a pivotal member of the Finance leadership team, responsible for directing the Company’s financial planning and analysis efforts. This role will play a crucial part in developing and driving the organization’s financial strategies to support its strategic goals and growth expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of annual budgets, long-range plans, and forecasts, including development and maintenance of complex modeling tools.
- Develop materials that provide insightful analysis on financial performance, key performance indicators, and trends to support decision-making.
- Prepare and present financial reports and analysis to the executive team and board of directors.
- Create ad-hoc financial models and analysis to support strategic initiatives including M&A.
- Collaborate with department heads to gather data needed to create operational plans that align with financial objectives.
- Establish department level expense budgets and assist senior executives to track performance against plan.
- Provide strategic financial insights to support business expansion and diversification efforts.
- Drive initiatives to optimize capital allocation, cost management, and resource utilization.
- Identify opportunities for revenue enhancement, cost savings, and process improvements.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. MBA preferred.
- 5-10 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, with a demonstrated track record of leadership and achievement.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Experience in managing infrastructure projects and technology implementations.
- Proven ability to communicate complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
Other Qualifications:
- Preferred Skills - experience using Salesforce, FinancialForce, and Intacct
- Advanced skills and experience using Microsoft Office; specifically, Microsoft Excel
- Problem solving skills - strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Customer service - responds promptly to requests for assistance and strives to continually improve service.
- Planning/organizing - the ability to manage multiple tasks to ensure that assignments are completed in a timely and productive manner.
- Quality control/Attention to detail - demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; monitors own work to ensure quality and applies feedback to improve performance.
- Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment and can deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Dependability - consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, takes responsibility for own actions, responds to management direction.
- Efficiency - the ability to process the required amount of transactions in a timely manner without sacrificing quality.
- Teamwork - Able to work in team environment.
- Communication - Strong written and verbal communication skills.
