SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE - REMOTE
About The Position
The Senior Vice President, Finance serves as the senior financial executive and strategic business partner for Compass Group USA's Support Services and Data Centers vertical. The executive leads financial strategy, stewardship, and performance across a complex, rapidly scaling portfolio that may span data centers, mission-critical and critical environments, facilities management, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor and cleanroom operations, life sciences, healthcare facilities, construction, commissioning, capital projects, industrial operations, infrastructure, utilities, and other 24/7 hard-services and engineering operations. The SVP provides leadership across planning, forecasting, commercial finance, pricing, contract economics, investment analysis, capital deployment, and performance management, while building financial infrastructure for profitable growth and scalability. The role works with executive, operational, commercial, sales, business development, and corporate leaders to support performance, operational excellence, and long-term value creation. The position leads a high-performing finance organization and develops scalable finance processes, controls, systems, metrics, analytics, and governance. The role is remote and requires travel as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 15 or more years of progressive finance leadership experience, including executive responsibility for FP&A, commercial finance, operational finance, and strategic business partnership.
- Proven track record leading finance organizations within complex, multi-site, rapidly scaling service businesses.
- Experience in data centers, critical facilities, facilities management, integrated facilities management, technical services, engineering services, infrastructure services, manufacturing, healthcare facilities, or other mission-critical operating environments.
- Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership to drive business growth, profitability, and enterprise value.
- Deep experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, pricing strategy, contract economics, investment analysis, and performance management.
- Experience supporting complex client contracts, renewals, rebids, and growth initiatives.
- Experience evaluating 24/7 operational environments with sophisticated labor, staffing, subcontracting, and cost structures.
- Exceptional communication, executive presence, and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to build and develop high-performing finance teams.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Nice To Haves
- MBA.
- Experience supporting high-growth organizations through expansion, mobilizations, commissioning, integrations, and large-scale operational launches.
- Experience across advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, cleanroom, life sciences, construction, capital projects, industrial operations, infrastructure, utilities, hard services, or engineering operations.
- Demonstrated expertise in commercial negotiations, contract structuring, pricing strategy, and client profitability management.
- Experience developing business cases for strategic investments, capital deployment, operational transformations, and growth initiatives.
- Proven success implementing scalable finance processes, systems, analytics, and governance frameworks.
- CPA, MBA, CFA, or another relevant advanced professional designation.
- Experience with enterprise ERP, FP&A, business intelligence, and data analytics platforms.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior finance leader for Support Services and Data Centers, providing strategic guidance and financial leadership to support growth and long-term value creation.
- Advise executive leadership by translating financial and operational insights into business strategies and recommendations.
- Partner with Operations, Commercial, Sales, Business Development, and Corporate leaders to improve financial performance, operational excellence, and margins.
- Shape decisions involving market expansion, service offerings, client partnerships, investments, capital projects, infrastructure, and capital deployment.
- Navigate a matrixed environment and work across functional teams.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial reporting, and performance management across the portfolio.
- Establish scalable metrics, dashboards, and predictive analytics for operational and financial visibility across multi-site and 24/7 operations.
- Analyze business trends, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers to support executive decisions and accountability.
- Strengthen financial discipline and reporting integrity across service lines and client environments.
- Oversee commercial finance, including pricing strategy, contract structuring, renewals, rebids, and new business pursuits.
- Evaluate new clients, mobilizations, commissioning, site expansions, acquisitions, integrations, construction programs, capital projects, and major investments.
- Lead M&A financial due diligence, valuation, deal structuring, integration planning, risk assessment, synergy tracking, and post-close performance review.
- Direct pro forma development, scenario modeling, investment analysis, and business-case creation.
- Evaluate opportunities based on profitability, return on investment, cash flow, scalability, risk, operational deliverability, and long-term value.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve productivity, labor efficiency, cost management, subcontractor economics, asset utilization, and overall business performance.
- Build scalable finance processes, controls, systems, and governance frameworks to support portfolio growth.
- Support operating models involving technical labor, engineering operations, hard services, utilities, subcontracted services, food services, and expanding client footprints.
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing finance organization, fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, talent development, and succession planning.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance and AD
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Holiday time off (varies by site/state)
- Personal leave
- Associate Shopping Program
- Health and Wellness Programs
- Discount Marketplace
- Identity Theft Protection
- Pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Potential eligibility for paid and/or unpaid time off in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
