Vice President Finance
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Our client is a leading $B+ specialty services provider with a national network of nearly a thousand locations across the nation. They're seeking a strong leader to work closely with the CFO and SVP of Operations to help drive business transformation, with a focus on profitability at the site level. This position reports directly to the CFO and will have a "seat at the table," acting as a strategic business partner to an impressive C-Suite leadership team.
The VP Finance - Operations owns all core financial aspects of site-level and field support and profitability (e.g., forecasting, budgeting, planning, reporting) for the large network of service centers and infrastructure. This leader will bring a strong analytics foundation and will partner with the Operations team to isolate the key value drivers, synthesize the relevant data, model profitability by site and across the network with a focus on costs, operating efficiency, structure, etc., and pair that data with revenue drivers data developed in partnership with other teams. With these insights, this leader will identify best practices and areas for improvement, provide recommendations, partner with the SVP of Operations and his team in implementing the recommendations, and track and report progress against KPIs and profitability improvement initiatives at the site and field support levels.
Duties & Responsibilities
Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting & Reporting
Lead annual bottom's up budgeting, monthly driver-based forecasting, and accompanying analysis with Operations
In partnership with Operations leadership, identify critical store-level KPIs and develop dashboard to track performance and provide visibility into store performance
In partnership with Operations Leadership, develop proper field structure and identify critical field-based KPIs that contribute to store performance
Develop approach to tracking and reporting field-based KPIs
Lead frequent presentations with Sr Executives and Board of Directors
Analytics, Decision Making, and Action Plans – Jointly responsible with SVP Ops for hitting core financial metrics
Develop in-depth analytics/ refreshable model around the key cost and [cycle] productivity drivers at the store level across all stores
Capture and document best practices in driving labor and operational efficiency
In partnership with Operations, co-lead segmentation of stores by performance level. Develop action plans, including timing and accountability, best practices roll-out plan, track adoption of best practices, and progress against action plans
Drive simplification of site pay plans, targeting more direct line of sight on pay for performance (productivity)
Lead overhead initiative toward lower, more variable model
Experience & Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, operations management, or equivalent training required
Minimum 10 years of experience in manufacturing finance roles or finance roles with multi-site businesses with a similar work profile
Experience building KPI dashboards, unit-level modeling, and leveraging business intelligence tools
Strong problem-solving skills, organizational and project management skills
Strong analytical and statistical skills
A natural change agent – DNA to change status-quo
Strong people leader – ability to lead cross-functionally
Strong communication skills both verbally and in writing independently.
Customer service oriented, recognizing the importance of high-quality customer service
Exercises excellent professional judgment
Ability to multitask and manage large, complex projects in parallel
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing work accordingly
Adaptable to change in the organizational environment
Ability to travel up to 10-15% of the time.
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