VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

ABOUT THE JOB:

In this role, the Vice President of FP&A is a dynamic and visible role intended for a high-potential candidate who is capable of continuing their development into more senior leadership roles at the company. The role requires a combination of strong team leadership and individual contributions, the ability to work across cross-functional teams, and strong financial and analytical capabilities.  This role will also be leading and developing a team of 10-15. The Vice President of FP&A is responsible for supporting C-level Management with key reporting and analysis to help drive outstanding results, provide them with information critical for decision-making, leading the FP&A function to achieve its objectives, and influencing both Corporate Functions and Business Units with a fiduciary’s mindset and thorough understanding of our long-term strategy. Some of these objectives include:

• Leading the annual budget planning and quarterly forecasting processes
• Providing recommendations to the C-suite based on analysis of results and trends
• Partnering with business stakeholders through influencing and critical thinking skills
• Overseeing financial planning and reporting platform/digital technology tools

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Transform processes: your process expertise will lead us to build future-ready forecasting process, increasing the ease and the accuracy of forecasting for the entire organization.
Building a digital roadmap: your technology expertise will be instrumental in developing a 5-year roadmap for the FP&A department to implement enhanced technology solutions into our processes.
Provide business decision support: your influencing and analysis skills will help us build sustainable business relationships and achieve our goal of providing impactful business decision support.
Build a leadership bench: your coaching and mentoring skills will help us build a strong talent bench of future corporate finance and business unit leaders.

What You'll Be Doing
Financial analysis and insight generation

• Provide analysis driven business advice: Act as a financial advisor to functional, C-suite, and divisional leaders by understanding their respective business areas and providing insightful and value-added analysis of financial results.
• Monitor financial performance: Design and build reports that help monitor financial performance relative to strategic goals and objectives.  Collaborate with field and corporate accounting and finance teams to complete month-end activities accurately and timely. Summarize and report monthly results to management, including variance reporting and other analyses. 
• Allocate capital to high ROI Investments: Advise and monitor rental fleet capital spending by collaborating with divisional sales and finance leaders to prioritize capital investments that meet appropriate return on capital requirements.

Business partnership and collaboration

• Manage business planning: Manage annual business plan/budget and quarterly forecast/outlook process, including the related systems and tools that support that process.
• Develop partnerships with businesses: Serve as a trusted finance partner and develop strong, collaborative relationships with executive level business partners and key stakeholders throughout the organization, including the divisional finance leaders.
• Cross-functional project support:  Support projects both within the Finance and Accounting organizations (e.g., financial reporting, capital markets transactions, acquisitions, etc.), as well as across other corporate functions as appropriate to provide financial and analytical insight.
• Change management: Develop and lead enterprise change initiatives related to scaling business processes, improving financial and operating performance, and implementation of technology to modernize the organization.

WSC has a highly collaborative culture and to be successful, you will work effectively with a broad group of executives, peers, and field leaders to perform the above responsibilities.  Aside from the Senior Vice President of Finance, key relationships with responsibilities that intersect the finance functions include:

• C-Level leadership – CEO, CFO, CHRO, CIO, etc.
• Divisional SVPs, General Managers – responsible for the successful operations and strategic planning of the Division.
• Divisional Finance VPs - responsible for all financial aspects of the of each Division.
• Region General Managers – responsible for the successful operations and implementing strategy of each Region.
• Central FP&A team (Direct Reports) – responsible for financial planning and analysis, all management financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Central Reporting and Business Intelligence teams – responsible for all management of operational reporting using Tableau, Sigma, and other management reporting tools.

SKILLS + EXPERIENCE:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Master’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration is preferred.

Experience:

• Financial planning: 10-plus years of experience in leading an FP&A, strategic finance, or planning functions. 20 plus year of experience in finance or accounting.
• Applying Planning tools: Experience in the use of financial planning tools (e.g., Hyperion, EPBCS, Essbase, Anaplan etc.)
• Data insight generation: Experience conducting quantitative/financial analysis and developing recommendations.