The VP of Finance, you will provide strategic financial planning and analytical support for senior management. This role is instrumental in leading all financial and business planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting, predictive modeling, data analysis and financial reporting across the company. You will also lead the preparation of board presentations, financial presentations, and other projects requested by senior management. This position will help identify opportunities that have the most business impact and be a key leader in driving the business forward. This position requires a proven analytics leader who fosters a sense of endless curiosity and camaraderie among the team and influences the organization through proactive, actionable analytics, insights, and reporting. The Vice President of Finance will be responsible for defining the future of data, insights, and analytics at Classera and leading data-driven decision-making processes across the Company.

Responsibilities

Data, Insights & Analytics

• Drive insights and influence outcomes by developing strong relationships with key stakeholders and supporting cross-functional business initiatives.

• Provide thought leadership on data efficiency opportunities and streamlining processes to focus on delivering insights vs. creating analyses.
• Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, and develop plans to implement improvements to tools, processes, and systems to drive greater efficiencies and insights.
• Identify appropriate analytical tools and use advanced knowledge of business analysis to perform a range (basic to highly complex) of quantitative analyses and predictive modeling.
• Develop and lead a premier team of analytical resources to help drive conversations, challenge business decisions, and make connections that would otherwise be missed.
• Stay abreast of developments at the intersection of data science, technology, and business relevant to the company and drive business innovation through analytics.
• Serve as management lead for assessing current ERP system & collaborate with I.T. team to ensure all systems are being capitalized within their scope of ability or identifying new systems and processes accordingly.
• Supervise certain month-end and year-end closing processes to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Be a champion for a data-driven, collaborative decision-making culture.

Financial Planning & Reporting

• Lead entire budgeting and forecasting process, including determination and management of individual restaurant, regional and departmental targets. Identify variances and provide insights on key drivers of actual results versus budgets and forecast.

• Support development of long-range strategy and operating plans by partnering with functional leaders in the organization, CFO and CEO
• Lead reporting and analyses that identify, evaluate, and communicate actionable business and financial results, trends, and outlooks for use by restaurant-level operations, multi-unit leadership, executive management, and Board.
• Provide thought leadership on data tools & systems to include data sources, validation, and business rules to produce automated reports, dashboards, and interactive data views.
• Manage presentations to executive team, Board, banks, and investors.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: CFA, CPA or Masters in Accounting & Finance from internally credited university
• Minimum Experience: 12 15 years of experience with at least 8 -10 years in a similar line of business, including experience of dealing with the Boards and serving in a management role with the provision of strategic direction at a senior level.
• Excellent business acumen
• Effective negotiation skills
• Aptitude for problem solving and troubleshooting with exceptional analytical skills
• Sound decision making and process excellence
• Planning and organization skills
• Team building skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Detailed knowledge of principles, policies, procedures, and internal processes pertaining to the sectors accounting and finance function

Preferred Skills

An entrepreneurial spirit