VP of Finance (relocation to Saudi Arabia)

VP of Finance (relocation to Saudi Arabia)

About the job

The VP of Finance will provide strategic financial planning and analytical support for senior management. This role is instrumental in leading all financial and business planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting, predictive modeling, data analysis and financial reporting across the company. You will also lead the preparation of board presentations, financial presentations, and other projects requested by senior management. This position will help identify opportunities that have the most business impact and be a key leader in driving the business forward. The VP of Finance is a proven analytics leader who fosters a sense of curiosity and camaraderie among the team and influences the organization through proactive, actionable analytics, insights, and reporting. The Vice President of Finance will be responsible for defining the future of data, insights, and analytics at Classera and leading data‑driven decision‑making processes across the company.

Responsibilities

• Drive insights and influence outcomes by developing strong relationships with key stakeholders and supporting cross‑functional business initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on data efficiency opportunities and streamlining processes to focus on delivering insights vs. creating analyses.
• Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, and develop plans to implement improvements to tools, processes, and systems to drive greater efficiencies and insights.
• Identify appropriate analytical tools and use advanced knowledge of business analysis to perform a range (basic to highly complex) of quantitative analyses and predictive modeling.
• Develop and lead a premier team of analytical resources to help drive conversations, challenge business decisions, and make connections that would otherwise be missed.
• Stay abreast of developments at the intersection of data science, technology, and business relevant to the company and drive business innovation through analytics.
• Serve as management lead for assessing current ERP system & collaborate with I.T. team to ensure all systems are being capitalized within their scope of ability or identifying new systems and processes accordingly.
• Supervise certain month‑end and year‑end closing processes to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Lead entire budgeting and forecasting process, including determination and management of individual restaurant, regional and departmental targets. Identify variances and provide insights on key drivers of actual results versus budgets and forecast.
• Support development of long‑range strategy and operating plans by partnering with functional leaders in the organization, CFO and CEO.
• Lead reporting and analyses that identify, evaluate, and communicate actionable business and financial results, trends, and outlooks for use by restaurant‑level operations, multi‑unit leadership, executive management, and Board.
• Provide thought leadership on data tools & systems to include data sources, validation, and business rules to produce automated reports, dashboards, and interactive data views.
• Manage presentations to executive team, Board, banks, and investors.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

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