As a Vice President, Central Expense & Headcount in Expense Management, you will be responsible for our key financial measures – headcount and expenses, where you will be expected to deliver value-added financial reporting and analysis, and assist with strategic direction and decision making. You will be expected to provide leadership across the FP&A teams, and interact regularly with the FP&A Managers, the line of business leaders and peers across Finance & Business Management and the business.
Job responsibilities
- Develop and track performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally provide financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Oversee of the process to deliver month-end results, the forecast for the remainder of the year, and the budget for future years.
- Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to FP&A managers and line of business CFOs explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
- Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
- Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible
- Lead process improvement / transformation / dashboarding initiatives for the team
- Drive the analysis, design and development of the Expense and Headcount Platform
- Perform efficiency reporting, analytics and strategy
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 7+ years of work experience in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Advanced knowledge and experience working on Essbase
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
- Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
- Integrity in handling highly sensitive and confidential information
- Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely