Interim Vice President, Finance

Duration: 12 months (Strong possibility of permanent)

Hybrid

Our client is seeking a seasoned Vice President, Finance responsible for translating organizational strategy into clear financial outcomes. Partnering closely with the CFO and other executive leaders, this role ensures that financial planning, forecasting, commercial analytics, investment governance, and enterprise performance management operate with rigor, accuracy, and strategic alignment.

The VP of Finance is responsible for leading the full financial planning and performance management cadence for the enterprise—from weekly reviews to annual planning cycles. This role ensures that financial insights, forecasting discipline, and performance reporting are consistent, timely, and actionable. By driving commercial effectiveness and enterprise‑wide profitability, the VP of Finance provides senior leadership and the Board with clear visibility into business performance, risks, and opportunities.

• Standardize reporting, analytics, and KPI definitions across all operating areas to ensure consistency and alignment.
• Lead financial analysis for pricing strategies, supply agreements, new product or category expansions, and capital investment economics.
• Establish planning and reporting structures for corporate and business unit operating expenses, ensuring accuracy and alignment with enterprise performance goals.
• Protect and optimize enterprise data assets—including cost standards, margin frameworks, and forecasting models.

• Lead the full planning and forecasting cadence, including annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, monthly performance reviews, and weekly operating metrics.
• Deliver accurate, timely financial forecasts with transparent variance explanations and clear recommended actions.
• Build and maintain decision‑grade financial models covering P&L, cash flow, working capital, volume, pricing, and margin drivers.
• Ensure that accounting data is accurately reflected in management reporting to support high‑quality decision‑making.

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to commercial leaders, enabling optimized pricing, customer economics, and margin outcomes.
• Provide insights on pricing, mix, product and customer profitability, portfolio performance, promotions, and cost‑to‑serve.
• Conduct competitive, market, and pricing analysis; build scenarios; and support evaluation of commercial initiatives and programs.
• Develop standardized dashboards, profitability frameworks, and reporting that improve visibility into commercial performance.

• Shape the integration of financial planning and analytics capabilities within the ERP and connected BI tools.
• Drive data governance across the organization, ensuring clarity in definitions, data lineage, access controls, and reporting accuracy.
• Promote self‑service analytics and support a unified financial data architecture that scales with the business.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals across FP&A, commercial finance, and capital modeling.
• Establish clear priorities, performance goals, and development paths for direct reports.
• Elevate analytical capabilities, communication quality, and decision discipline within the finance function and across partnering teams.
• Strengthen financial literacy and promote consistent adoption of finance frameworks across the enterprise.

• Align short‑term operating plans with long‑range financial strategies, ensuring capital structure and liquidity requirements are met.
• Support leadership and board‑level communication with clear narratives on performance, risk, capital decisions, and financial outlook.
• Oversee capital allocation discipline, investment evaluation, ROI analysis, and post‑investment performance reviews.
• Contribute to valuation, scenario modeling, and capital deployment strategies that enhance long‑term enterprise value.
• Maintain strong financial governance across forecasting, margin management, pricing decisions, and…