Vice President of Finance
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Location: Palm Springs, CA 92262
Description:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Financial Strategy and Planning
- Collaborate in identifying, developing, articulating, and quantifying the vision and strategic direction for the company and its resulting financial goal and objectives, and financial performance
- Work closely with the CFO to shape financing and business development opportunities, improve systems and accountability, overseeing all budgeting, and tax-related requirements, plus conducting various non-financial administrative functions and processes
- With executive leadership, participates in strategic planning, system development, direction and implementation, and evaluation of products and services, assuring appropriate allocation of recourses to achieve objectives
- Identify proactive solutions to eliminate or mitigate risks and advance the company's vision, strategic plan and annual business plans.
- Provide insights and recommendations to the executive team on financial performance, investments, and risk management.
- Support strategic initiatives by providing financial analysis and modeling.
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Develop and oversee the budgeting process and ensure adherence to developed budget guidelines
- Prepare and communicate annual budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.
- Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks
- Collaborates with CFO on One/Three/Five-Year Business plans for corporate growth & evolution
- Develop KPIs, which support management in making timely and informed business decisions
- Works with accounting team to analyze business results on monthly, quarterly, and annual basis and recommending changes to have a positive impact on the long-term financial health of the company
- Provides proactive, sound guidance regarding management of resources, assets, investments, expenditures, debits, and financial forecasting, predictive modeling, leading indicators, and trends
- Ensure accurate and timely financial forecasting and reporting.
- Financial Reporting & Compliance:
- Works with the CFO in the formulation, preparation, and review/approval of annual operating budgets with input and involvement at the department level, as well as capital budgets and cash flow projections
- Arranges lines of credit and maintains proper banking relations
- Adheres to and exemplifies corporate compliance standards and procedures, responsible for risk reporting and assessment.
- Assists the CFO in conducting and/or oversees all tax filings pursuant to requirements at City, State and Federal levels
- Ensures reports created by team members are completed and distributed on a timely basis
- Supports accounting management with reconciliation review and internal control responsibilities as appropriate.
- Treasury Function
- Creates and maintains strong lender relationships and all associated credit facilities supporting corporate initiatives for operations and growth; ensure compliance with reporting requirements.
- Provides lenders with information summarizing performance and highlighting financial areas on a monthly basis.
- Ensures efficient management of cash to promote sustainable financial health.
- Regularly monitors cash flows and provides cash flow projections to CFO for joint review and planning.
- Capital Expenditures & Fixed Assets
- Reviews and analyzes capital expenditure requests - Completes appropriate analysis on proposed purchases, return on investment studies and alternative considerations.
- Supports the capital request and budgeting process.
- Information Technology (IT) & Information Systems (IS)
- Supports CFO and IT Departments to ensure systems are developed and utilized to ensure proper maintenance of all accounting systems, functions, controls and procedures.
- Maintains and improves tools and systems to provide critical financial and operations information to the CFO and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations.
- Supports CFO, IT Manager and GRC Manager in developing IT strategy and implementing cybersecurity and other IT-related controls
- Insurance & Risk Management
- Works together with the GRC Manager and CFO to manage insurance programs and interface with business insurance brokers, providers, auditors, and claims adjustors.
- Follows established controls and processes and makes recommendations for improvements in the risk and insurance areas.
- Team Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a high-performing finance team.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent.
- Foster a positive and collaborative work environment.
- Support accounting management, GRC, compliance and IT departments