VP, FP&A

As the Vice President of FP&A, you'll lead the financial strategy, planning, and analysis activities, providing senior management with financial insights and projections for strategic decision-making, while overseeing the annual budgeting and forecasting processes. This role requires advanced strategic thinking and communication skills, as this role often collaborates closely with senior leadership to provide financial insights and projections for strategic decision-making.

Essential duties include but are not limited to:

Planning:

• Act as a strategic partner to business units, providing financial guidance and support
• Optimize annual budget process & consolidation
• Overseeing the development of financial models for budgeting and forecasting
• Facilitate and consolidate annual Long-Term Strategic Planning process
• Responsible for synthesizing budget and Long-Term Strategic Plan information and data for senior executive and investor stakeholders
• Lead development of financial modeling for organic growth investments
• Develop short and long-term forecasting models

Reporting & Analytics:

• Lead effort to align, define and report on PMG level financial and operational KPIs
• Implement processes, tools, and controls to align investments with strategic goals and meet financial performance targets
• Development and consolidation of monthly and quarterly Board of Directors deliverables and Senior Management
• Collaborate with management teams to maintain financial results in line with budgets and forecasts, deploying countermeasures as needed to achieve targeted financial outcomes
• Provide FP&A support to department leads for PMG shared services (e.g. HR, IT, etc.)

Financial Operations:

• Optimize the monthly financial close timeline
• Managing the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and presentations for the CFO
• Support development and enforcement of key financial and accounting policies and procedures Develop and report on pricing key performance indicators on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Partner with cross-functional transformation teams to implement key, financial initiatives [Example: system implementations and optimization]
• Facilitate and contribute to senior finance leadership team responsible for best practice sharing, career development and department planning
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team
• Foster a collaborative and results-driven culture within the team
• Provide ongoing training and professional development opportunities for team members

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with a concentration finance, accounting, economics, or business administration
• A minimum of 15 years relevant experience
• Excellent communication and administration skills
• Experience with financial planning software and ERP systems
• Strong MS Office skills e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Ability to champion change and continuous improvement

Other Preferred:

• Pharma services experience
• Experience interacting with senior executives and investors
• Finance experience working across multiple business models
• Experience interacting across all levels of an organization
• CPA, CFA, MBA or Masters of Finance
• Self-starting attitude with a strong desire to learn and grow in fast paced environment
• Demonstrated critical thinking, analytical, interpretative and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality work