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VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE

Role Summary

Responsible for the entire range of financial activities for the Issuer segment, including B2B businesses. Activities including the preparation of financial and business performance reports, budgeting and forecasting of business operations, performance KPIs, headcount and the financial infrastructure of cost centers. Leads the budget planning and forecasting process and provides technical financial expertise to key stakeholders. Develops and maintains strong relationships with business and corporate leaders and successfully partners with all stakeholders to achieve the business’ financial goals. Applies change management to advance strategic finance initiatives which drive operational excellence and build capacity in critical areas. Manages, supports and guide the global Issuer finance team. Possesses strong prioritization skills, a strong system background, an analytical mindset, desire to dive into the data, as well as a strong command of the business. This role requires strong business acumen and has high visibility across the organization. Advise and interact with C-Level and other senior leadership teams on a regular basis.

Essential Functions

Planning & Forecasting:

• Lead and drive planning, budgeting, forecasting, annual and long-range planning in support of key operating segment(s), sales channel(s) and/or functional area(s).

• Deliver data-driven analyses and KPI metrics to identify key trends, potential risks and opportunities and optimize business operations.

Reporting:

• Lead the development and delivery of accurate, timely, and actionable financial reporting and key business metrics to business and operating teams, gain key insights into trends with meaningful and actionable analyses.

• Identify and communicate key business opportunities, leading indicators of risks and advise the leadership team on appropriate actions.

• Drive operational and financial process improvement practices to ensure data integrity, and maximization of internal resources.

• Key stakeholder in monthly accounting close & reporting process

• Perform tasks at the highest level of accuracy and efficiency, in accordance with US GAAP and adjusted earnings

Performance Management:

• Build thoughtful analyses to drive better investment decisions and optimal resource allocation. Gathers data to contribute to building financial performance metrics to include utilization of resources, efficiency metrics, dashboards and/or profitability reporting.

• Manage the budget for respective area(s) by identifying opportunities to achieve cost savings. Make recommendations regarding the best use of budgeted financial resources.

• Lead analytical support for business/investment/synergy cases

Business Partnering: Build strong relationships and collaborate with business leaders as a trusted advisor who highlights risks, identifies opportunities, and builds scenarios and sensitivity analysis.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate and communicate on a timely basis with other functional areas within the CFO organization (e.g. Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax and Corporate FP&A) regarding monthly or quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and other financial trends and developments

Sales Team Commissions Administration

• Lead sales commissions administration

• Maintain consistent controls and governance

• Provide enhanced sales reporting and analysis

Other duties as assigned.

Skills/ Qualifications / Attributes

• Provide a high level of customer service to all stakeholders

• Demonstrated expertise of forecasting and financial statement analysis

• Self-driven, organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• Extraordinary written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate with team and top management is essential as well as good presentation skills.

• Ability to drive continuous improvement of systems and processes.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate across business teams and make the right calls using data to support decision making.

• Superior analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail.

• Demonstrated success working in a deadline driven and multi-tasking environment.

• Consistently exceed expectations and take on more responsibility

Reporting Relationship

• Reports to SVP, Issuer Finance

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 15+ years related professional experience in finance or related field

• A minimum of 7+ years experience in a supervisory position.

• Demonstrated expertise in financial and statistical reporting, design, preparation of financial models required.

• Experienced with ERP and ERM systems (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle Financials, OneStream). Implementation experience preferred

• Advanced user of Excel, demonstrated ability to work with complex sets of data.

• MBA preferred. BA/BS in Business, Finance, Economics, or equivalent with additional experience in lieu of a MBA degree may be considered.

• Publicly-traded, high-growth technology companies preferred

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