Vice President, FP&A

• Develops the operating and financial plan required to achieve management’s strategic plan.
• Lead long-range and annual planning processes to drive long-term growth and scalability through new business opportunities, strategic investments, and workforce optimization.
• Collaborate across finance functions to ensure adherence to US GAAP and other reporting and compliance standards
• Develop and streamline KPIs, metrics, and dashboards to track ongoing business performance.
• Drive annual budgeting process and quarterly forecasts, providing insights into opportunities and risks in topline metrics, expenses, and headcount plan.
• Ensures projects and/or departments are working toward achievement of the organization's financial goals.
• Manages the FP&A team and oversees the team’s department/function forecasting activities, strategic planning, and annual operating/capital budget reviews.
• Establishes overall direction and strategic initiatives for each given major function or line of business.
• Evaluates organizational projects or plans to determine budgetary impact and financial status.
• Identifies short term and long-term business plans by utilizing standard financial policies and regulated procedures.
• Develops the overall financial policies for FP&A.
• Serves as a valued strategic business partner to executive leadership by providing insightful, actionable, and current financial performance reporting and analysis that drives business understanding and decision making.
• Responsible for forward-looking analysis by anticipating how the environment will change, assessing financial impacts, and ensuring the business is properly positioned.
• Lead the FP&A team to conduct variance analysis for organizational leadership and direction
• Work with the CEO and business leaders to prepare quarterly investor relations materials, including earnings release documents, earnings call scripts and annual reports.
• Leads and manages through change and ambiguity with focus and a bias for action.

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• BA or BS degree in Finance/Economics/Business management with 10+ years of financial planning and analysis experience; prior experience managing a budget and forecasting process
• MBA and/or CPA a plus
• Experience managing FP&A in a SaaS or Life Sciences environment preferred
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills, solid knowledge of GAAP, cost accounting and inventory accounting principles
• System savvy and expert knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and reporting applications
• Highly motivated, and committed to driving change and improving processes
• Ability to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or multiple competing priorities
• A hands-on leadership approach in leveraging systems and processes in order to drive significant and profitable growth