Associate Vice President, Finance

Associate Vice President, Finance

The Associate Vice President, Finance is a key member of the Finance Leadership Team responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and strategic decision support across ASU Enterprise Partners and its affiliates. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, integrating financial insights, strategic analysis, enterprise performance management, and risk-informed decision support to advance institutional priorities, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and ensure long-term financial sustainability.

The position provides leadership for enterprise planning processes, strategic initiatives, organizational transformation efforts, governance activities, and emerging priorities while fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Strategic Planning & Decision Support

• Leads the long-range strategic financial planning function and development of annual operating budgets for ASUEP and affiliates, incorporating enterprise risks, opportunities, and scenario-based planning to support organizational decision-making.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to executive and business leaders across ASUEP, aligning financial resources, organizational capabilities, and operational priorities with enterprise strategy.
• Structures, builds, and maintains complex financial, operational, and risk-informed decision-making models that provide meaningful business insights and practical recommendations.
• Builds and reviews detailed assumptions that drive multi-year financial planning models and works with business leaders to establish performance targets and resource allocation strategies.
• Conducts analyses, prepares reports, and advises on the feasibility, cost effectiveness, and regulatory implications of strategic initiatives, business proposals, and ongoing operations.
• Prepares forecasts of income and expenditure and continually evaluates long-range financial plans, reserve strategies, revenue projections, and expense trends.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Develops and maintains performance measurement frameworks, dashboards, and executive reporting that provide actionable insights into financial results, strategic objectives, operational effectiveness, and organizational risks.
• Identifies key business challenges and leverages advanced analytics, visualization tools, and performance metrics to enhance decision-making and organizational effectiveness.
• Ensures planning and performance metrics align with organizational objectives, mission fulfillment, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Communicates complex financial, operational, and strategic insights clearly and effectively to executive leadership, governing bodies, and other stakeholders.
• Develops and advances enterprise performance management capabilities, frameworks, and reporting practices to enhance accountability, transparency, and organizational effectiveness.

Risk Management & Governance

• Leads organization-wide risk assessment, scenario planning, and risk monitoring efforts, evaluating financial, operational, strategic, compliance, and external risks that may impact organizational objectives and long-range plans.
• Integrates risk management practices into strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and resource allocation processes while fostering accountability for risk ownership and mitigation across the organization.
• Oversees planning, performance management, and risk management technologies, methodologies, and reporting frameworks, ensuring effective governance, actionable insights, data integrity, user adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Partners with executive leadership and governing bodies to provide analysis, recommendations, and decision support related to organizational performance, strategic priorities, enterprise risks, and major initiatives.

Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness

• Identifies and leads cross-functional initiatives that improve processes, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and leverage technology, automation, and innovation to support scalability and growth.
• Acts as the subject matter expert for planning, performance management, and related decision-support tools and technologies.
• Hires, develops, mentors, and retains a high-performing team while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Serves as a strategic resource to executive leadership and may assume leadership responsibility for special projects, enterprise initiatives, governance efforts, organizational transformations, operational improvements, and other priorities as required to support the evolving needs of ASUEP.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or other related discipline
• Ten (10+) years of relevant experience, including experience in data-driven decision-making roles such as finance, financial planning & analytics (FP&A),…