VP, Finance Strategy Integr

Overview

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The Vice President, Finance Strategy & Integration serves as a senior strategic partner to the EVP, Finance, helping translate enterprise priorities into integrated plans, cross-functional execution, and measurable outcomes. This role supports a broad portfolio that includes finance planning projects, capital oversight initiatives, strategic enterprise priorities, real estate planning, and facilities planning. Reporting directly to the EVP, Finance, the role acts as a central integrator across stakeholders, ensuring that major initiatives are sequenced thoughtfully, governed effectively, and aligned to financial, operational, and organizational goals.

While the role includes strong program governance and project management disciplines, its primary value is as a strategic planner, thought partner, and enterprise integrator. The successful candidate will bring the judgment to connect long-range planning with near-term execution, the credibility to influence senior leaders across functions, and the discipline to drive clarity, accountability, and progress across a complex portfolio of work.

• Strategic Planning & Finance Integration
  • Partner directly with the EVP, Finance to shape, prioritize, and advance key finance planning projects and enterprise strategic initiatives.
  • Translate strategic goals into integrated roadmaps, decision frameworks, milestones, and governance mechanisms that support high-quality execution.
  • Identify interdependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and sequencing considerations across finance, operations, real estate, facilities, and other corporate functions.
  • Develop executive-ready materials, recommendations, and insights that enable the EVP, Finance and senior leadership to make informed decisions quickly and confidently.
• Portfolio Governance & Execution
  • Lead portfolio governance across a range of initiatives, establishing clear ownership, timelines, decision points, and escalation paths.
  • Apply strong PMO discipline through integrated plans, reporting cadences, issue management, and executive dashboards that improve transparency and accountability.
  • Coordinate cross-functional work streams to ensure initiatives remain aligned, dependencies are actively managed, and outcomes stay tied to strategic intent.
  • Monitor progress against objectives, proactively address barriers, and provide the EVP, Finance with concise recommendations to keep priority work moving.
• Capital Oversight, Real Estate & Facilities Planning
  • Support capital oversight projects by bringing structure, analysis, and governance to investment planning, prioritization, and tracking.
  • Partner with Finance, real estate, and facilities leaders to develop integrated plans for site strategy, space planning, facilities investments, and related operational requirements.
  • Ensure major real estate and facilities initiatives are evaluated through a strategic and financial lens, with clear business rationale, cost implications, and execution plans.
  • Create visibility into key milestones, investment decisions, and implementation risks across the capital, real estate, and facilities portfolio.
• Executive Stakeholder Leadership & Change Enablement
  • Build credibility and alignment with senior leaders across Finance, Operations, HR, IT, Legal, and Corporate Services to advance complex, cross-functional priorities.
  • Facilitate structured decision-making, ensure…