Vice President FP&A

Position Description

The VP FP&A reports directly to the CFO and provides leadership and oversight of all financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes. The VP will also lead certain reporting processes for external constituents.

The VP FP&A is a regular, full-time position, and is eligible for our generous employee benefits package, including employer paid health insurance, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions, and other great benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and integrate all budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes across the company, from projects to business segments to the consolidated company.
• Communicate overall budgeting and forecasting strategy; develop budgeting and forecasting calendar; assess budgeting tools and processes; leverage budget applications and analytic tools used to produce forecasts.
• Collaborate with executive leadership team on key metrics and updates to project budgets.
• Manage and oversee the preparation of consolidated financial statements, create, and manage combined and consolidated internal reports, oversee ad-hoc reports, and track corporate matters and information from business units. Strong understanding of partnerships and HLBV is a plus.
• Partner with the CFO in preparing presentations for all stakeholders, executive management, and external constituents.
• Work with the CFO to develop annual and long-term financial forecasts/business plans including capital planning and financing.
• Drive planning and business intelligence systems to report on key business drivers.
• Improve and implement process and systems usage for budgeting and forecasting across all aspects of development business; implement process of sharing updates and reports with key stakeholders.
• Oversee creation of detailed corporate cash flow management reports, develop consistent budgeting and forecasting approach, develop metrics, targets, KPI’s and reports, evaluation of results against forecasts.
• Produce detailed corporate cash flow management reports, work with asset management to provide operating forecasts, and verify that all loans are compliant with debt ratio requirements looking forward.
• Analyze ROI to improve capital allocation and monetization strategies.
• Drive planning and business intelligence systems to report on key business drivers.
• Participate in monthly internal review of development project budgets.
• Partner with CFO & IT to ensure optimization of current budgeting & reporting software system.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (finance, accounting, economics, or business)
• 8-10 years of experience in FP&A and related areas, with at least 5 years of people leadership
• Demonstrated experience as a team leader with a player-coach mentality. Ability to successfully manage a team of 2-4 finance professionals.
• Experience in leading budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes (for a project development company is a plus).
• Preferred experience in renewable energy, utility/IPP, corporate energy services, banking and/or financial & capital markets industries.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP
• Preferred experience working with SAP software.
• Expert proficiency in Excel.

Key Attributes for Success

• Expert knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes, and best practice.
• Proven history of collaborating effectively with executives and stakeholders.
• Life-cycle project experience and/or experience in a construction/project-oriented environment.
• Expert organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Versatility, flexibility, and ability to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; exceptional presentation skills necessary to represent the company internally and externally.
• Can work collaboratively across multiple business units and functions in support of organizational financial goals.

Location   Greater New York City area preferred | Miami, FL | Austin, TX

Travel   Up to 20% travel required, as necessary.

Job Level   Senior Director or VP; managing 2-4 people