VP, Finance, Corporate Segments and Total Company Expenses

Job Description

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The Vice President, Finance, Corporate Functions and Total Company Expenses is a senior Finance leader responsible for providing strategic financial leadership across the organization's global Corporate Functions, enterprise-wide expense management and significant enterprise initiatives.

The VP serves as a trusted advisor to senior Corporate Function and Finance executives, bringing an independent, enterprise-wide perspective to financial performance, resource allocation, expense management and investment decisions.

Operating across businesses, functions and geographies, the role brings together financial insights to provide senior leadership with a Total Company view of expenses, productivity, investments, risks and opportunities, while ensuring major enterprise initiatives are appropriately prioritized and deliver measurable business value.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Serve as the senior Finance partner to Corporate Function leaders, providing strategic advice, constructive challenge and decision support.
• Lead planning, forecasting, reporting and performance management across Corporate Functions.
• Translate Corporate Function strategies into clear financial implications, resource requirements and investment choices.
• Provide forward-looking insights on financial performance, emerging risks, opportunities and structural cost drivers.
• Challenge assumptions and recommend actions to improve financial and operational outcomes.
• Maintain view of Corporate Function costs and the underlying services and capabilities driving those costs.
• Lead continued enhancement of Corporate cost allocation methodologies.
• Evolve transparency to Business Groups regarding Corporate services and allocated expenses including balancing transparency and precision with the need for allocation methodologies that are practical, understandable and decision useful.
• Partner with Business Group Finance leaders to understand cost drivers, forecast allocations and identify optimization opportunities.
• Partner with Capital, Investment teams and tax for Corporate segment results, forecasts and plan
• Identify underlying expense trends, emerging pressures and opportunities for management action.
• Provide an Enterprise-wide view of expense performance across businesses, functions and geographies.
• Develop forward-looking insights regarding the organization's expense trajectory and key financial sensitivities.
• Partner with Business Group and Corporate Finance teams to establish consistent expense definitions, methodologies and management reporting.
• Provide senior executives with a clear narrative explaining what is driving expense performance, and where sustainable opportunities exist.
• Lead Finance oversight and insights for enterprise expense-management and productivity programs.
• Identify structural opportunities to improve the organization's cost base and operating leverage.
• Establish frameworks and metrics for measuring productivity and sustainable expense reduction.
• Ensure savings commitments have clearly defined baselines, owners, timing and measurable financial outcomes.
• Track execution against enterprise expense commitments and escalate risks or gaps requiring management intervention.
• Bring external perspectives and financial-services benchmarks into enterprise expense-management discussions.
• Establish consistent standards for business cases, financial evaluation and approval of significant enterprise investments.
• Provide independent Finance challenge of investment assumptions, costs, benefits, execution risks and ongoing operating impacts.
• Support executive prioritization of competing investments based on strategic importance, affordability, capacity, risk and expected value.
• Establish appropriate financial governance throughout the investment lifecycle, from initial business case through implementation and benefits realization.
• Continuously enhance investment-governance frameworks and executive reporting.
• As the team and company grow, the responsibilities of this position may expand to adapt to changing organizational goals.
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Key Skills & Attributes

· Proven experience at building and developing a strong team

· Excellent interpersonal, organizational and team building skills.

· Excellent oral, written and, presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.

· Proven ability to influence the performance of others to deliver results.

· Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team environment and across multiple sites and multiple business units.

· Strong business acumen with a strong understanding of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9

· Ability to apply advanced financial concepts and capabilities across business activities.

· Experience and knowledge in collaborating with Senior Business and Corporate Leaders.

· Proven experience leading in a matrix model with the ability to foster effective working relationships and negotiate solutions.

· Effective communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills.

· Effective change management, through impact and influence skills.

Education and Experience

· Accounting Designation with 10+ years of experience in the financial management field in a senior leadership role or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

· Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, expense management, investment governance and/or business partnering.

· Experience operating within a large, complex, matrixed organization.

· Experience supporting senior executives and influencing decisions across business groups and geographies

· Demonstrated experience leading teams through change.