Vice President of Finance

Position Summary

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Vice President, Finance is responsible for leading the organization’s financial planning, capital deployment, and strategic analysis functions. This role provides vision, leadership, and oversight for key FP&A activities, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and driving financial performance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth.

Accountabilities

Financial and Strategic Leadership:

Product P&L Development

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of fully allocated product line P&L frameworks to enable increased financial visibility and accountability across all product lines and business functions.
• Partner with product management and business unit leaders to develop, monitor, and analyze product profitability, cost structures, and margin drivers to deliver on long term strategy
• Establish regular product and function P&L reviews with senior leaders, providing actionable insights and collaboration to improve strategy effectiveness and maximum resource deployment and allocation.
  
  

Enterprise Financial Impact

• Oversee the consolidation of financial results across multiple business units, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain robust consolidation processes and systems that support both statutory and management reporting requirements.
• Champion and lead the adoption of modern tools and methodologies for increased forecasting efficiency and accuracy, to create more time for valuable insights
• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to streamline month-end and quarter-end close processes, identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency. Through partnership with strategy and planning team, serve as financial lead on enterprise strategic business plans (annual and long range)
• Lead and secure board approval of the annual enterprise budget. Includes maintaining updated forecasts, setting guidance and targets, socializing critical decisions and tradeoffs and establishing and maintaining product and functional level performance metrics.
• Contribute to strategic growth opportunities, internal and external, including M&A due diligence, reorganization, new business ventures, etc.
  
  

Department Leadership

• Lead and oversee the team accountable for critical FP&A activities, including annual budgeting, long-range planning, function and product performance forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Present financial plans, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership, the board, and external stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor and improve financial reporting processes, forecasting techniques, and data analysis methods.
• Drive proactive identification of savings, margin expansion, and revenue-generating opportunities, presenting actionable insights to senior leaders.
• Lead continued development of a high-performing FP&A team, fostering ongoing training, coaching, and professional growth through establishing clear performance and development goals.
• Influence and persuade stakeholders across functional domains, driving alignment and change management through improved enterprise processes and insights
• Serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership on key initiatives.
  
  

Compliance & Stewardship

• Through partnership with Controllership team, ensure compliance with GAAP, internal controls, and company financial policies.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and security of sensitive financial and personal information in accordance with NMDP policies.
  
  

Knowledge/Experience

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, including driver-based and scenario modeling.
• Deep understanding of KPIs, variance analysis, and profitability drivers across business units and business department allocation best practices
• Deep familiarity with FP&A platforms, with desire to drive further adoption of tools for increased business value and predictive analytics for forecasting and risk modeling.
• Skilled at translating financial insights into strategic recommendations for C-suite and operational leaders.
• Launching or enhancing business unit reviews and standardization of business unit reporting
• Advanced Excel and FP&A systems skills
• GAAP knowledge preferred
  
  

Ability To

• Lead and develop business-informed, tech enabled finance talent,
• Engage collaboratively across all levels of leadership
• Outstanding relationship building
• Influence without authority
• Strong communication skills and ability to be understood by non-financial customers both internally and externally (e.g. Board of Directors)
  
  

Education And/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• 12 years of progressively responsible management experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic modeling and consolidation.
• 8 years of leadership experience, preferably in a multi-unit or complex organizational setting.
• Experience leading finance for product divisions and partnering with business unit leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-impact finance teams
  
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)

• MBA with a concentration in Finance, MS in Accounting, or CPA
  
  

About The Team

NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits. Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees. Please reference this link for more information: NMDP Benefit Information