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Vice President – Finance Strategy & Execution

New York, NY (1271 AOA/6th Ave) · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$115k-$180kDetected 29 days ago

Financial AnalysisAccountingForecastingSAPM&AFP&ALeadershipCommunicationAdaptabilityFinancial ReportingAccounts PayableCFA

About the role

The Vice President, Finance Strategy & Execution, is a leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and executing the future-state Finance operating model.
The VP will serve as a finance transformation change leader, agent, strategist, and architect, working closely with Finance, Technology, Operations, and enterprise strategy teams.
The role integrates strategic vision with pragmatic execution, helping to ensure Finance evolves towards its strategic Target Operating Model (TOM) while maintaining strong control, integrity, and flexibility.

Positioned outside of regular Finance production work, this role is focused on change, and how Finance evolves as a functional and strategic partner to support the wider Finance organization.
Actively manage risks, issues, and remediation actions across a portfolio of initiatives.
Define solution intent, design principles, and target-state outcomes while ensuring solutions remain executable.
Lead cross functional working sessions focused on future-state design, decision-making, and adoption.
Drive integration and simplification across core Finance platforms (e.g., G/L, sub-ledgers, consolidation, planning, reconciliation) to reduce complexity and manual intervention.
Serve as a trusted advisor for Finance leadership and partner for Technology, articulating the strategic rationale, design choices, and trade-offs underlying transformation decisions.
Act as a thought partner to Financial Controllers, Accounts Payable, and FP&A teams in a complex and continuously evolving environment.

10+ years of experience across Financial Accounting, Finance Transformation / Strategy, or similar advisory roles within complex financial institutions.
Proven experience designing and leading large-scale Finance transformations, not simply managing delivery.
Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at both high-level strategic and detailed architecture levels.
Demonstrate ability to apply fit-for-purpose methods aligned to initiative complexity and risk.
Ability to translate business requirements into functional and technical solutions.
Shape the data architecture required to enable enterprise-grade analytics and decision intelligence.

CPA, CFA, or equivalent professional certification.
Experience with major Finance platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, OneStream).
Practical experience leveraging automation, solutioning and AI within Finance or adjacent functions.
Key Competencies
Strategic and architectural leadership that defines direction and guides execution.
Analytical and insight-led thinking and leadership.
Change leadership and influence at all levels of organization.
Ability to interact with Technology fluently.

Drive the design of the strategic vision and realization of complex Finance transformation initiatives, with clear accountability for outcomes and value realization.

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