Finance Director POST NUMBER: 449248
Role: Finance Director
Salary: $175,000 - $185,000/annually Bonus
Location: Remote - Must be able to travel up to 1-2 times a month!
Job Description:
- Lead management reporting, including operational KPIs, dashboards, business trends and performance vs plan to deliver weekly financial updates, monthly performance analyses and quarterly rolling forecasts, including reporting for investors.
- Provide strategic leadership over cash management operations, including oversight of collections, billing processes, and cash flow optimization to ensure financial stability
- Lead preparation of the semi-annual planning process and maintain the rolling three-year financial plan.
- Lead initiatives to continuously improve and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes.
- Manage quarterly financial update process for investors and be the main point of contact.
- Interpret and present key findings directly to and engage with senior leadership across multiple functions.
- Create analyses, commentary and presentation materials for Board and leadership meetings.
- Create financial models to help evaluate and assess new business opportunities and strategic partnerships.
- Exhibit true mastery of handling most complex analytics including business issues that are beyond finance.
- Partner with functional business teams to provide value-added business insight and decision support.
- Serve as a true financial resource to internal business partners.
- Evangelize a data-driven, analytical approach to business issues across the company.
- Required Meetings: Staff and executive meetings as scheduled.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, a related field, or relevant work experience.
- 15 years of finance experience with a mix of startup and environmental industries preferred.
- Self-starter who is able to thrive in a dynamic environment under short timelines and changing priorities.
- Proven track record of breaking down and solving complex problems with impeccable business judgment. Ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans.
- Superior analytical, modeling and presentation skills.
- Superior problem-solving skills and ability to communicate effectively with executive management.
- Detail-oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output.
- Willing and excited about diving into the numbers and being hands-on.
- ERP experience, BST & Deltek Vantagepoint
- Advanced Excel skills
- SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx experience to analyze large datasets
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.