Our client is a Philadelphia-based $2B+ specialty services provider with a national network of nearly a thousand locations nationwide offering customers a wide range of services. We’re looking for a strong leader to partner with the CFO and CEO to drive business transformation. This role will provide strategic financial leadership to the corporate and commercial finance teams. This person will collaborate with the CEO, CFO, Commercial and other cross-functional partners across a global organization to deliver accurate and timely financial information along with business insights to improve performance.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Create annual and multi-year operating plans that are aligned to the strategic plan. Perform forecasting and actuals reporting to provide visibility into business results and enable business decisions. Provide consultative input and business analyses to support operating planning and forecasting.
- Integrate / input analysis from operational, commercial, and business leaders to create unified plans, budgets, and forecasts (e.g. waterfalls, bridges).
- Partner with key stakeholders and business partners to align on business priorities and drive effective solutions/execution. Constructively communicate compelling arguments based on facts and data and obtain necessary buy-in to deliver on business objectives.
- Partner with all executive and senior-level management in setting direction, managing key financial priorities and executing successfully against those priorities.
- Use deep understanding of objectives, issues, and root causes and provide insightful, fact-based data analysis to help solve complex problems. Provide financial and strategic decision support to senior management to ensure achievement of short- and long-term financial goals.
- Assist management in understanding the business dynamics that impact the financial position of the company by developing financial models and creating and monitoring leading indicators and business statistics.
- Partner with business leadership to develop strategies and initiatives to drive growth and margin improvements. Execute on strategicinitiatives such as location strategy and process improvement efforts. Develop business cases and recommend financial strategies to ensure business growth/market presence and margin improvement.
- Establish an awareness of general economic, competitive, business, and financial conditions and communicate impact on business operations to key stakeholders.
- Leverage recurring and ad hoc management reporting to identify trends, build business cases, highlight opportunities and risks, and drive business decision making. Help to find ways to increase appropriate transparency of financial performance across all levels of the company.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Technical Acumen: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or equivalent is required. MBA in Finance or Masters in Business Analytics, or similar field, preferred. Ten or more years of finance experience with at least four years in financial planning and analysis; consulting experience highly preferred. Five years of people leadership experience. Prior financial experience with a leading role in planning, reporting and forecasting in both start-up and well established companies with the ability to effectively perform in a high pressure environment.
- Transformation Experience: Hands-on leader with demonstrated experience partnering with an executive leadership team totransform an organization. Functional leadership experience with ERP implementations or modifications to ensure high levels of reporting analysis. Leadership skills including the ability to influence and unite people around common objectives and thereby overcome individual differences in order to produce exceptional results.
- Team Leadership: Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to influence and unite people around common objectives, and thereby overcome individual differences in order to produce exceptional results. Superior management skills including the ability to plan, execute and monitor activities that lead to attaining business objectives while using the appropriate resources (financial, material, administrative, and human), with sound management costs in order to deliver exceptional results.
- Drives Continuous Improvement: Strong track record of achievement in complex, fast-paced business environments. Experience driving process improvements and system upgrades to scale with the growth and evolving complexity of the business. Ability to work under tight time constraints, handle sensitive date and multi-task so that deadlines can be met. Highly organized and able to prioritize and manage time efficiently with the ability to handle stress in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Proactive individual with strong initiative, organizational and prioritization skills.
- Executive Presence: Demonstrated ability to communicate “up and down” the organization; strong work ethic; motivator of people; possesses interpersonal skills and the “ability to listen”. Experience communicating company performance and strategyto key stakeholders. Ability to cultivate relations with customers and external partners, to identify their needs, and respond to them in an appropriate manner.
