Senior Vice President – Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

GLG•New York, NY

1d•$184,000 - $375,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Vice President / Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) reports to the Chief Financial Officer and manages forecasting, financial planning, and analysis for GLG’s Financial Services, G&A, and corporate business segments. This strategic, data-driven finance leader will establish FP&A as an analytical think tank and trusted partner across the organization. The role leads an established team, recruits top talent, and oversees revenue metrics, financial reporting, corporate division budgets, project management, and external reporting requirements. The successful candidate is a collaborative, rigorous executive with proven experience in a complex business at scale. They bring strong financial stewardship, business partnership, authentic leadership, and effective communication and influencing skills. They will provide strategic guidance to executive leadership, lead financial planning and reporting, strengthen business insight and financial accountability, and help transform and modernize GLG’s finance organization and infrastructure to support future growth. The role requires four days in the office.

Requirements

15 or more years of progressive FP&A experience with increasing responsibility, scope, and leadership, including corporate-level experience.
Experience leading FP&A teams in complex, at-scale organizations.
Experience in a global business environment of relevant complexity; ideally in an organization with more than $300 million in revenue.
Strong business acumen and strategic skills, with an operational orientation and the ability to understand complex business strategies and their operational implications.
Forward-looking engagement with the business; operationally focused experience in addition to finance roles is desirable in the candidate profile.
Experience leading, motivating, mentoring, and growing teams, with a focus on future enterprise scale.
Demonstrated ability to transform planning processes into more insightful, dynamic, and forward-looking business engagements.
Deep understanding of business drivers and market trends, and ability to turn analysis into actionable recommendations.
Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, intellectual rigor, and sound business judgment.
Broad finance functional experience, including accounting, reporting, customer/channel profitability analysis, revenue recognition, financial modeling, and forecasting.
Ability to achieve ambitious goals, identify opportunities, execute effectively, manage with metrics, and deliver transparent results.
Agility and comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions while maintaining quality decision-making and results.
Ability to identify stakeholders, build strategic relationships, negotiate collaboratively, adapt influence approaches, and anticipate potential conflicts.
Ability to lead critical conversations and presentations and influence senior and executive stakeholders.
Strong relationship-building skills and ability to foster organizational harmony and address pain points.
Clear and effective communication and executive presence, with credibility among internal and external stakeholders.
Degree in Finance, Accounting, or another related business field.

Nice To Haves

Background in technology-enabled services or other business services.
MBA or another advanced degree.
Experience in operationally focused positions in addition to finance roles.

Responsibilities

Manage the monthly forecasting, annual planning, and long-range strategic planning and modeling processes.
Oversee quarterly filings and lender deliverables, and provide strategic guidance and financial counsel to the Executive Leadership Team.
Establish FP&A as a Center of Analytical Excellence serving functional leaders across the organization.
Create and monitor KPIs; identify trends and analyze variances across revenue, cost of sales, expenses, operating metrics, and capital expenditures.
Prepare reporting packages covering financial statements, KPIs, operational dashboards, business trends, actual-versus-budget variances, and executive-level explanations.
Develop the annual budget and manage forecasts for revenue, expenses, and headcount.
Manage capital allocation, cash flow forecasting, and lender deliverables.
Improve operating teams’ understanding of financial statements and budget adherence through thoughtful, transparent analysis.
Lead, develop, and motivate the FP&A organization and collaborate with cross-functional operating teams to provide fact-based recommendations that improve profitability and operating efficiency and effectiveness.
Evolve the organization, drive high performance, and develop short- and long-term objectives and projections.
Provide transformational leadership and guidance across the organization, setting direction and aligning people and resources.
Promote best practices and adoption of new techniques, tools, and methodologies; ensure management reporting produces insights and recommendations tied to strategic objectives.
Apply investment-analysis knowledge and contribute to M&A and corporate development activities.
Partner with others to transform GLG, redesign finance processes, modernize the finance organization, and build financial infrastructure to support future growth.
Lead finance organization integration, systems upgrades, hiring and mentoring, outsourcing, and automation as appropriate.
Design, implement, lead, and transform planning processes into insightful, dynamic, and forward-looking engagements with the business.
Oversee analytics and reporting, connect insights to actionable recommendations, and enable business decisions.
Drive results using data, metrics, and measurements; deliver execution, transparency, and quantifiable improvements.
Build strategic relationships, collaborate with stakeholders, influence senior leaders, and address potential conflicts and organizational pain points.
Identify and leverage team members’ strengths, empower people, and build a high-performing finance function.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage effective on the first day of employment.
Flexible paid time off with no predetermined vacation limits.
10 company holidays.
401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match, subject to annual limits and vesting.
Tuition reimbursement for eligible courses, including language skills courses.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
Wellbeing support through the Calm app, Maven, and EAP.
Free long-term therapy and counseling assistance through Pathways.
Other work perks and benefits based on final job location.
Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation.