Vice President, 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 monthly and quarterly reporting process, quarterly forecasting, and annual budget processes. This role will act as a strategic advisor to the CFO and executive team, translating data into actionable insights to drive growth, profitability, and operational efficiency. This role is essential for steering business decisions and ensuring financial goals align with corporate objectives. This role requires advanced strategic thinking and communication skills.   

Essential duties include but are not limited to:

Planning:

• Lead and scale the FP&A function, setting the vision, structure, and operational rigor needed to support scalable, strategic decision-making as we grow.
• Partner with the CFO on earnings prep and Board-facing materials, delivering essential insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Influence company-wide decisions as a trusted advisor to senior executives and cross-functional leads, translating financial insights into strategic growth initiatives.
• Act as a strategic partner to business units, providing financial guidance and support

Reporting & Analytics:

• Optimize annual budget and quarterly forecast process & consolidation
• Oversee the development of financial models for budgeting and forecasting
• 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
• Responsible for the monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages for the Executive Mgmt team and the Board of Directors
• Optimize processes to accelerate monthly and quarterly reporting
• 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 for the SG&A functions (e.g. HR, IT, etc.)

Financial Operations:

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and development throughout the FP&A team.
• Collaborate across IT and the broader Finance Organization to modernize financial tools and processes
• Managing the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and presentations for the CFO
• Optimize the monthly financial close timeline
• Partner with cross-functional transformation teams to implement key, strategic and financial initiatives
• 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; ability to communicate complex financial insights clearly and effectively at all levels, including the Board
• Bring proven experience partnering with complex global organizations approaching $1billion of revenue and 3,000+ employees
• Possess sharp analytical and problem-solving skills with deep expertise in financial modeling.
• Experience with financial planning software and ERP systems
• Strong MS Office skills e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI
• Ability to work in a complex multi-service international company
• 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