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The VP of Commercial Finance involves acting as a strategic business partner to the President of a $500M business unit driving profitable growth. This includes leading a team of senior leaders to deliver a culture of successful performance and change management. Responsibilities also include analyzing, and extracting insights from business results, financial results, and KPIs gathered from stakeholders, and driving improvements in the management reporting process, implement reporting and visualization best practices.
Job Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic business partner to the President of General Merchandise driving profitable growth both organically and evaluating inorganic opportunities.
- Lead a team of senior leaders to deliver a culture of successful performance and change management.
- Understand, analyze, and extract insights from business results, financial results, and KPIs gathered from stakeholders, ensuring key business drivers, results and risks are gathered into a cohesive story that drives decisions.
- Develop strong partnerships cross-functionally to complete highly complex analytics and support a global operating model.
- Drive improvements in the management reporting process, implement reporting and visualization best practices and proactively consult with teams to enhance effectiveness of communications and presentations.
- Proactively recommend and execute projects to advance insights and frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance, or economics required. MBA preferred.
- 12+ years financial performance management, including demonstrated success in leading teams in a revenue growth business.
- Expert in PowerPoint with strong communication and executive level presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead key business reporting and data/information gathering, delivering high quality, timely results, and work products, holding others accountable.
- Critical thinker with a continuous improvement and learning mindset.
- Must be able to handle multiple priorities and deadlines independently.
- Demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of management and employees, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills and the ability to constructively handle conflict.
- Ability to work independently to demonstrate initiative.
- Location
This position can be located in the following area(s): Chicago, IL
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. 180-200 base salary plus bonus
