Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company recognized both locally and nationally across multiple workplace categories. Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated team members who are driven to succeed as professionals individually and together as a team. Backed by a strong product, exceptional people, and a stable financial foundation, we've grown into a leading provider of used and new car financing across the country.

Our Support teams work with multiple departments in a dynamic environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy, while offering the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of professionals. We work to comply with our company standards, exceed customer expectations, and drive our Great Place to Work culture. We deliver high-quality services aligned to business needs, driving innovative improvements that support our company strategy and modern operating principles.

The Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) provides strategic financial leadership and insight to support executive decision-making, enterprise value creation, and long-term growth. This role leads the Company's budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, strategic planning, management reporting, and business performance analysis functions. The VP of FP&A serves as a trusted advisor to the CFO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors by delivering actionable financial insights, identifying opportunities and risks, and driving accountability for financial and operational performance.

This role also leads the continued evolution of financial processes, analytics, systems, and AI-enabled decision support capabilities.

Outcomes and

Activities:

• Serve as a key strategic advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team, translating business strategy into financial objectives, performance metrics and actionable recommendations.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process and long-range financial plan and provide financial insights for the Board and Executive Committee discussions.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, operational initiatives, capital investments, and strategic alternatives.

• Own the annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasts, and rolling financial outlooks across revenue, expenses, earnings, cash flow, and key operating metrics.
• Establish rigorous forecasting methodologies that improve predictability and accountability across the organization.
• Analyze drivers of financial performance and communicate variances to management.

• Deliver timely management reporting, executive dashboards, and variance analysis for GAAP and non-GAAP performance.
• Develop business insights that improve profitability, capital efficiency, and shareholder value.
• Monitor key performance indicators and provide recommendations to improve operating results.

• Partner with Treasury to support capital planning, liquidity management, share repurchases, funding strategies, and other corporate finance activities.
• Evaluate mergers, acquisitions, new products, partnerships, and strategic investments.
• Develop valuation and scenario models to support executive decision-making.

• Establish and execute a finance technology roadmap that advances the use of automation, AI, data visualization, and predictive analytics.
• Partner across Finance, IT, and Data teams to strengthen financial systems, reporting capabilities, data governance, and process efficiency.

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing FP&A organization, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and succession readiness.
• Strengthen succession planning and organizational capability within the Finance function.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and

Skills:

• Exceptional financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
• Strong understanding of corporate finance, performance management, and strategic planning.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Excellent…