VP of Strategic Finance
About The Position
The Vice President of Strategic Finance is a senior leader in GreenSky’s Strategic Finance organization. This position owns the company’s financial plans, forecasts, and analysis that inform strategic and operating decisions, and serves as the lead finance business partner to Sales leadership, Pricing, and Risk/Analytics. The role regularly interfaces with executive leadership and the Board, and with bank partners when needed, in a fast-paced, regulated fintech environment. The VP owns enterprise revenue, earnings, and three-statement forecasting; leads annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning; and manages unit-economics and vintage-return frameworks. The position provides decision support through financial modeling, scenario analysis, profitability analysis, and business partnering. It also leads financial reporting and executive communications, manages and develops FP&A professionals, and drives process improvements and adoption of planning technology.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive Finance experience, including 5+ years in a senior leadership capacity influencing executive stakeholders, with expertise in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Exceptional financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills, including expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning in a corporate finance environment.
- Prior experience as a finance business partner to revenue-facing leaders in sales, pricing, or marketing.
- Ability to translate financial analysis into a clear business narrative for senior stakeholders and prepare executive- and partner-facing materials.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with senior executives and, as needed, the Board, and deliver quantifiable revenue, risk, or efficiency outcomes.
- Proven experience leading and developing finance teams or an enterprise-wide function, including people leaders.
- Experience with enterprise financial forecasting and planning software.
- Proven experience leveraging AI tools to create financial analyses, reports, and other work artifacts.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or another advanced degree.
- MBA, CFA, CPA, CTP, or FPAC.
- Experience in consumer lending, point-of-sale finance, home improvement lending, payments, or another regulated financial-services environment.
- Hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or a comparable enterprise planning and forecasting platform.
- Understanding of bank-partner or financial-institution relationship models in consumer lending or fintech.
- Experience with MS Office 365 Copilot.
Responsibilities
- Own the company’s revenue, earnings, and three-statement financial forecast end to end.
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range financial planning.
- Own unit-economics and vintage-return frameworks, including sensitivity to funding costs, credit performance, and pricing actions.
- Partner with Capital Markets, Treasury, and Accounting to align funding-cost, credit, and close assumptions across plans, forecasts, and reported results.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses to support strategic decisions and business cases, including macroeconomic scenarios, growth investments, and market entry or exit.
- Analyze profitability of existing business offerings and potential new ventures, and quantify trade-offs for decision-makers.
- Partner with commercial business leaders to translate operating plans into financial forecasts and KPIs, and build a performance-measurement regime.
- Lead monthly and quarterly financial reporting and variance analysis for business-area and executive leadership.
- Prepare and present recurring and ad hoc Board- and executive-level financial presentations and underlying analyses.
- Manage and develop a team of FP&A professionals, fostering high performance and building bench strength.
- Drive FP&A process improvements and automation to reduce cycle time and improve forecast accuracy.
- Recommend, implement, and use modern technology tools to improve financial forecasting and planning efficiency and effectiveness.
- Represent the function to executive leadership and, as needed, the Board, external auditors, and bank or funding partners.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
