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

The Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) will report to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and will be responsible for managing the forecasting, financial planning, and analysis processes for GLG’s Financial Services, G&A, and corporate business segments. This executive will be a strategic and data-driven finance leader that will establish FP&A as an analytical think-tank that can be effectively leveraged by all parts of the organization. They will foster an entrepreneurial spirit, lead an established team and recruiting top talent, to manage the day-to-day revenue metrics, financial reporting, corporate division budgets, project management, and external reporting requirements.  

The successful Candidate has proven experience in a complex business at scale. The individual is a dynamic, rigorous, collaborative executive who works well as part of a team and has the executive courage to make difficult recommendations and / or decisions. They possess superior finance stewardship skills, a business partner mindset, authentic leadership, and impactful communication and influencing skills.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee and manage monthly forecasting process, annual planning process, long-range strategic planning process and modeling, quarterly filings, and lender deliverables; provide strategic guidance and financial counsel to Executive Leadership Team.
• Establish Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) as a ‘Center of Analytical Excellence’ to be shared with functional leaders across the organization.
• Create and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), highlighting trends and analyzing causes of variance, including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses, operating metrics, and capital expenditures.
• Prepare a reporting package that includes full financial statements, comprehensive KPI reporting, operational dashboard reporting, analysis of key business trends, actual versus budget variances, and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences.
• Develop and prepare annual budget, managing forecasts for revenue, expenses, and headcount. Manage capital allocation, cash flow forecasting and all lender deliverables.
• Improve operating teams' understanding of financial statements and budget adherence with thoughtful and transparent analysis.
• Successfully manage, develop, and motivate the organization to collaborate with cross functional operating teams and provide fact-based recommendations that improve profitability, operating efficiency and effectiveness.
• Build, manage and lead the evolution of the organization, drive top performance and developing the key objectives and projections, both short-term and long- term.
• Provide transformational and inspirational leadership and guidance across the organization and set clear direction, aligning people and resources accordingly.
• Promote and drive best practice, adoption of new techniques, tools, and methodologies, and ensure management reporting yield business insights to drive recommendations and results against strategic objectives.
• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of investment analysis and be able to play a key role in any associated M&A / Corporate Development activities.
• In partnership with others, continue to lead a significant transformation of GLG, redesigning processes for the finance organization, modernizing the finance organization, and helping to build a financial infrastructure for the business that can support future growth.  

Candidate Profile

The Head of FP&A will be a strategic, hands-on finance executive with diverse industry experience and a demonstrated business acumen. This leader will possess a deep understanding of ever-changing market dynamics who thrives in a fast-paced, lean organization and with an insatiable drive to focus on results while inspiring great talent to outperform in a complex, evolving and technology-driven organization. The successful Candidate is a team player who will balance a breadth of experience with the ability to drive consistency and accountability in the business and establish FP&A as a trusted partner.  

IDEAL EXPERIENCE  

Senior FP&A and Corporate Finance Leadership 

• 15 or more years of progressive FP&A experience demonstrating increasing responsibility, scope, and leadership, including at the corporate level. Highly involved and engaged with the business on a forward-looking view, and ideally has spent time in operationally focused positions in addition to finance roles.
• Strong business acumen and strategic skills with an obvious operational bent; ability to quickly grasp complex business strategies and identify downstream operational implications. Highly involved and engaged with the business on a forward-looking view.  

Industry & Scale

• Led FP&A teams in at-scale, complex organizations. Experience in a global business environment of relevant complexity, ideally over $300 million revenue. A background in technology-enabled services or other business services is preferred but not required.  

FP&A Organization and Transformation 

• Evolve complex finance organizations through integration, system upgrades, hiring and mentoring A-players, outsourcing, and automation. Experience leading, motivating, and mentoring / growing teams, with a strong lens toward future scale of the enterprise.
• Demonstrated track-record of designing, implementing, leading, and transforming a planning process into a more insightful, dynamic, and forward-looking engagement with the business.  

Strategic Insights, Tracking & Reporting 

• Deep understanding of business drivers and market trends. Oversee analytics and reporting to drive reliable insights. Ties insights to actionable suggestions and acts as a business enabler. Extraordinary analytical and critical thinking skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Strategic thinker with broad finance functional experience, including accounting, reporting, customer/ channel profitability analysis, revenue recognition, financial modeling, and forecasting, balanced with sound business judgment.  

Education & Credentials 

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or other related business degree. An MBA or other advanced degree is preferred but not required.  

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES 

Driving Results 

• Acts to surpass team goals, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible; sets continually higher goals for the team that are ambitious but achievable.
• Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded.
• Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets.
• Continually utilizes data, metrics, and measurements to shape strategies, optimize performance and drive quantifiable improvements in team output.
• Proven ability to turn aspirational goals into reality, pairing high-level thinking with strong execution, driving outcomes, managing with metrics, and delivering transparency into results.
• Driven to succeed. Agile, with a high comfort level with ambiguity and fluidity, and the ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment while achieving quality results.  

Collaborating and Influencing 

• Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement.
• Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach that takes all parties’ perspectives into account.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome.
• Engages others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns.
• Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them.
• Ability to effectively lead critical conversations / presentations and has innate ability to influence and build efficacy amongst Senior / Executive team stakeholders and leaders.
• Self-aware with the ability to form and foster organizational harmony and correct existing pain points and gaps.
• Relationship driven, builds trusting relationships in a dynamic environment with a broad range of colleagues, executive stakeholders, and business partners.  

Leading People

• Identifies and leverages individual strengths within the team, unlocking potential.
• Empowering and visionary leader who builds world-class functions.
• Communicates clearly and effectively, with proven executive presence; ability to bring immediate credibility to and influence both internal and external stakeholders.

This role will require four days in the office.