VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States ..+ 1

Regular

Buyers Edge Platform (“BEP”) is a leading digital procurement and back-end services platform for the food service industry,serving operators, manufacturers, and distributors across the value chain.

Through a portfolio of brands organized into four business units – Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Solutions, Supply Chain Management, and Software –BEP combines industry-leading purchasing power, proprietary data and analytics,and technology with decades of collaborative industry relationships.

BEP is an established, private equity-backed, multi-entity organization that continues to grow both organically and through acquisitions.

Each business unit runs a distinct economic model, from recurring, volume-based procurement fees to software subscriptions to fresh supply chain services –which makes disciplined, consistent finance a competitive advantage.

The VP, FP&A & Strategic Finance is BEP’scorporate-level finance leader for full-company strategy and transactions.

Reporting to the CFO, this person leads the corporate FP&A and Strategic Finance team and works closely with the CEO, President, business unit leaders and their finance leads, and our private equity sponsors.

While business unit finance leads run the finance of each business, this role owns the enterprise view: consolidating business units with different business models into one plan and one operating rhythm, shaping enterprise-wide investment and growth strategy, and directing capital to its highest-returnuse. The role also serves as a principal finance lead on capital markets andM&A transactions and will build corporate finance processes around dataand AI.

• Own the annual planning calendar, the budget process, the long-range plan, and the monthly and quarterly operating rhythm across all business units.
• Own the consolidated forecast, built on driver-based, integrated three-statement models with clear scenarios and sensitivities.
• Lead monthly business reviews with executive team: variance analysis, what changed and why, and the actions that follow.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CEO, President, CFO, and the executive team, bringing a clear point of view and recommendations.
• Using the full-company financial picture, formulate enterprise-wide strategy on investment and growth:
• Set the balance between near-term earnings and long-term investment in growth.
• Lead capital allocation: ROI analysis and business cases for technology and product development, headcount, and acquisitions.

• Lead the financial workstream on equity and debt capital raises, including models, lender and investor materials, and diligence.
• Fold acquired businesses into the planning and reporting framework and track synergy and value-creation delivery against the deal case.
• Own Board of Directors content – financial results, the operating plan, and the long-range plan – in partnership with the CFO.
• Own monthly and quarterly board, PE sponsor, and lender reporting, with a single source of truth for financial and operating metrics.
• Drive towards forecasting accuracy, KPI governance, and reporting cadence to the standard expected of top-tier institutional investors.

• Design and ship AI-enabled workflows for forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting. Test new tools, run pilots, and roll out what works – moving the team’s time from assembling numbers to interpreting them.
• Own the FP&A systems roadmap across planning, and BI/data platforms, and build data foundations the business can trust.

• Experience:
  
  13+ years of progressive FP&A, strategic finance, and/or corporate finance…