Vice President, Head of Corporate FP&A

Zoetis • Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

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About The Position

The Vice President, Head of Corporate FP&A is a strategic leader on the Corporate Finance team, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance. This role drives world-class financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics—leveraging advanced technologies including AI—to provide actionable insights and inform executive decisions at Zoetis. As a cross-functional partner, this executive delivers proactive financial guidance, rigorous management reporting, and robust scenario analysis, while fostering continuous improvement in forecasting processes and resource allocation. The VP leads organizational transformation within FP&A, ensures data-driven decision-making, and communicates complex financial matters to diverse audiences including the CEO, CFO, and Board. Exceptional leadership, analytical capabilities, and proven experience in global collaboration are essential, as is a commitment to developing a high-performing, future-ready team, including 4 direct reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required; Master’s, MBA or advanced credential (CPA, CFA) strongly preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in corporate or commercial finance roles within a large, multi-national company; executive-level leadership experience highly desired.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with advanced proficiency in financial modeling (Excel), written analysis, and effective PowerPoint presentations for executive audiences.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise financial systems, including S4/HANA, Anaplan, HFM, Essbase, OneStream, or comparable platforms preferred.
• Outstanding oral and written communication abilities; skilled at collaborating and influencing across all organizational levels.
• Strong narrative and storytelling capabilities—able to craft compelling data-driven presentations and business cases for leadership and board-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating on enterprise strategy design and operational execution at scale.
• Proven ability to lead impactful change initiatives, extracting meaningful insights from analytics and driving continuous improvement.
• Strong record of partnering with and influencing matrixed teams and senior business leaders.
• Energetic, self-directed, and resilient leader who thrives in high-pressure, fast-paced environments and autonomously manages complex, competing priorities.
• Decisive and accountable; takes ownership and drives results within area of responsibility.
• Superior time management skills with a track record of producing results under tight deadlines.
• Proven commitment to developing high-performing teams; excels in coaching, mentoring, evaluating, and ensuring succession for key finance talent.
• Willingness to travel as needed for the role.

Responsibilities

• Advise executive leaders and senior management on all aspects of financial planning, investment priorities, cash flow, external reporting, and financial policy.
• Translate corporate strategy into actionable financial targets and dynamic, multi-year resource plans; provide strategic guidance on trade-offs, risks, and value creation.
• Serve as the principal finance thought partner to the CEO/CFO/SVP Corporate Finance/Executive team, proactively identifying opportunities, issues, and challenges to optimize enterprise performance and growth.
• Lead, refine, and elevate enterprise planning, forecasting, and annual budgeting processes in partnership with business units, ensuring accuracy, strategic alignment, and timely completion.
• Drive the adoption and integration of emerging finance trends such as digital transformation, macroeconomic scenario analysis, and AI-enabled planning into FP&A frameworks and recommendations.
• Own the long-range planning (LRP) process, including scenario and sensitivity modeling and integrated risk management—ensuring strategic relevance and accuracy in all planning and forecast cycles.
• Provide advanced financial modeling, predictive analytics, and scenario analysis to support growth initiatives, restructuring, capital planning, major investments, and operational improvements; communicate impacts of internal and external changes, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and required course corrections.
• Present company-wide financial results, key trends, and actionable insights to the CEO, CFO, SVP Corporate Finance and Executive team to enable informed strategic and operational decision-making.
• Oversee the preparation and communication of financial deliverables, including monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc revenue analyses, variance explanations, and management reporting.
• Own enterprise management reporting, including management P&L, headcount reporting, variance analytics, KPI scorecards, and performance narratives.
• Spearhead business partnering activities, supporting commercial decisions and enabling the highest standards of KPI and metrics reporting.
• Develop and deliver executive-ready materials for monthly/quarterly business reviews, ad hoc decision support, and targeted planning discussions.
• Prepare high-impact materials for the Board of Directors, CFO, CEO, and Audit Committee, clearly articulating complex financial insights, scenarios, and recommendations.
• Drive enterprise capital allocation and the multi-year resource roadmap, including investment prioritization, capex planning, and ROI governance; establish financial frameworks to evaluate investment cases.
• Partner with Strategy, BD/M&A, Product Development, VMRD, and enabling functions on business cases, valuation support, synergy modeling, and value realization tracking.
• Champion scalable, standardized processes and continuous improvement initiatives to elevate FP&A from reporting to proactive enterprise value creation.
• Drive enterprise risk management (ERM) program, including governance, operating cadence, and enterprise risk register management.
• Evolve ERM into a proactive, insight-driven capability through risk sensing, scenario/simulation exercises, benchmarking, and stronger risk quantification.
• Convene and lead cross-functional risk forums/task forces; drive accountability for risk ownership, mitigation plans, timelines, effectiveness testing, and escalation of residual risk.
• Deliver executive- and Board-ready risk materials with clear implications, interdependencies, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations.
• Own the ERM technology platform (e.g., AuditBoard), including configuration, governance, training, process integration, dashboards/KRIs, and data quality and reporting workflows.
• Define FP&A system requirements and manage implementation timelines of OneStream with IT, Accounting, and key stakeholders.
• Maintain and improve financial models, metrics, and data governance frameworks, leveraging automation and AI-enabled approaches where beneficial.
• Build and enhance dashboards, visualizations, and analytics to improve transparency, speed, accuracy, and insight.
• Maintain continuous, proactive communication across the business as the primary source of financial insight on performance, risks, and emerging opportunities.
• Collaborate with Investor Relations, Controllers, Communications, and global commercial FP&A teams to ensure timely, accurate financial analysis, alignment, and consistent internal and external messaging.
• Lead and empower a high-performing organization with 4 direct reports, setting clear accountabilities, development objectives, and succession plans
• Build and sustain a culture of analytical rigor, innovation, diversity, and ethical excellence; influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ensure talent development and engagement across the broader FP&A organization, promoting continuous learning, adaptability, and strategic partnership.
• Proactively monitor, anticipate, and integrate external finance trends into FP&A strategy and recommendations.
• Lead and participate in special projects and initiatives, supporting global leadership with ad hoc analysis and advanced financial advice on commercial, operational, and strategic decisions.
• Champion FP&A’s role as a catalyst for enterprise value and strategic innovation—ensuring the function is viewed not just as financial stewards, but as architects of the company’s next chapter.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package that supports the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing of our colleagues and their families including healthcare and insurance benefits beginning on day one, a 401K plan with a match and profit-sharing contribution from Zoetis, and 4 weeks of vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees