Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a dynamic and seasoned Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis to join our team supporting a high growth S&P 500 FinTech across our Mobility & Corporate Payments Segments.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record in mid-size companies navigating growth challenges, excels in implementing efficiencies through tool deployment (Anaplan, Alteryx, UI Path), and possesses experience in publicly listed matrixed organizations.

This individual should be a strategic decision-maker ideally with experience in Financial Services. Demonstrating strong leadership, the successful candidate will have a blend of hard skills, including complex budget builds, investment appraisal, and organizational design, coupled with essential soft skills such as effective team management and mentoring, the ability to align with and elevate General Managers/stakeholders, and effortlessly switch contexts between various business domains and functions.

To be successful, the VP must excel in navigating diverse cultures, coaching and managing complex teams, and cross-functional collaboration that helps to deliver optimal financial and business outcomes for WEX.

Responsibilities:
* Support our COO, America's in the day/day running of a large complex set of businesses (Fleet/Mobility & Corporate/Travel Payments)

* Support the SVP, Finance in inspiring a culture of high performance, data-driven decision making, innovation and employee engagement within the FP&A team.

* Manage a team of ~ 25 individuals specializing in Business Partnering & Decision Support, with a small team supporting commission & customer incentive payments. Mentor emerging and existing leadership team for career development and best-practice/next-level leadership.

* Lead the Commercial Americas finance team to deliver timely, accurate and meaningful budgets, forecasts, pricing and other FP&A activities such as revenue analysis, customer analysis, sales commission and related performance reporting, results reporting, variance analysis; benchmarking and analytical reporting to management and the BoD's as applicable.

* Drive improved and simplified processes and data analytics to support the business.

* Plan for and advise the company on strategic risks and opportunities; offer context, trade offs and recommendations based on financial results, trends and forecasts.

* Collaborate with senior executives and stakeholders to assess and implement P&L optimization opportunities, related to Sales & Marketing ROI, pricing and/or channel optimization, whilst identifying and managing any associated trade offs.

* Partner with Treasury, Tax & Accounting functions to deliver analyses and information required to drive key financial decisions across the Commercial Americas geography.

* Special projects and analysis including coordination and planning of the transition acquisitions, global funding strategy, investor relations, and work on other management initiatives.

* Contribute to the development and execution of long-term financial strategies and engage daily in strategic thinking to provide forward-looking financial insights and demonstrate a proactive and solution-oriented approach to risks and opportunities impacting the organization's growth and financial success.

Qualifications & Experience:

* At least 15-20 years of progressive experience in high-growth, complex and listed company environments with both Credit & Payments, SAAS products.

* BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, MBA, or other relevant degree/education

* Great experience coaching, developing and mentoring individuals across large teams (25+) with high levels of variability between business lines and functions

* Experience with working in a matrixed environment, with strong proven record of influencing various stakeholders

* Ability to lead and manage transformational change across a company and teams, while building new organizational capabilities and experiences for team members.

* Experience in leveraging large, complex amounts of data to drive decision making in an organization

* Experience in successful deployment of process efficiency tools and techniques across teams to drive efficiency and rapid decision making (Alteryx, UIPath, Anaplan, or similar)

* Ability to understand and digest complex situations quickly and simplify the outputs for executive decision making

**Frequent travel to Portland, ME**