AVP, Associate Director of EFD – Operations & Financial Strategy

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Full Time Remote, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Stearns Bank, we’re helping people, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and local communities nationwide reach their full financial potential. Sound like something you want to be a part of? If so, we’re currently looking for an AVP, Associate Director of EFD – Operations & Financial Strategy. This position is a Connected Mobile Work Environment position.

Come see how we’re doing business unusual and charting our own path to reimagine a more inclusive financial services and banking ecosystem for all.

Stearns Bank understands and respects that everyone is managing unique career, family, and wellness needs. That’s why we offer industry-leading benefits to employees to help them live healthy lives and bring their full selves to work every day. Benefits may vary for part-time positions. Some of those benefits include:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan & 401k Plan
• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision, Telehealth, Life insurance)
• 12-week Paid Parental Leave and Medical Leave:
  With a cap of 20 weeks for eligible team members who qualify for both Medical and Parental Leave related to the birth of a child
• $5,000 Family Care Reimbursement:
  Childcare, Elder Care, Student Loan Debt, Pet expenses, Down Payment Assistance, Health Insurance Premiums
• PTO from 13 to 23 days depending on tenure. Cashout and Carryover options
• 10 Days Sick Time
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 2 Days Self Allowance Time
• Tuition Assistance

For this position, we anticipate an annual salary between $125,000 – 180,000 Final employment offers will be dependent upon the selected candidate’s relevant qualifications and experience.

The AVP, Associate Director of EFD – Operations & Financial Strategy is responsible for operational excellence, financial governance, core-system ownership, data integrity, and strategic growth enablement within the Equipment Finance Division’s (EFD). This role oversees all operational functions, ensures accurate financial and tax processes, manages business-unit reporting and budgets, and leads the strategic evaluation of new products, industries, and operational capabilities.

This role requires advanced operational leadership, strong cross functional collaboration and partnership, and a very proactive approach to efficiency optimization, KPI-driven performance management, and critical thinking-based decision making. This position will require extensive communication with all business units within Equipment Finance Division (EFD) and other internal departments within Stearns Bank.

• Provide discipline, vision, and oversight for EFD finance and operations functions, ensuring processes are standardized, controlled, transparent and responsive.
• Lead the strategic direction and continuous efficiency improvements of our EFD finance and operations functions, including system specifications and security to the highest level of completeness, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Build, measure and sustain accountability, urgency, precision, Gold Standard service, financial discipline, and process integrity.
• Identify operational risks, implement controls, and ensure audit readiness.
• Work with other departments to ensure all processes function seamlessly, setting and enforcing clear ownership, accountability, and performance expectations for the EFD Finance and Operations teams and function.
• Serve on the EFD Leadership Committee to oversee strategic direction, operational performance, systems strategy and risk management of EFD with the other committee members collectively.
• Provide high-impact strategic leadership and ensure team culture reflects accountability, communication, ownership, and performance excellence.

• Serve as the business owner of the core EFD systems, including configuration, workflows, permissions, and integrations.
• Oversee how data enters, moves through, and…