Vice President, Corporate Finance and Strategic Development
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- MBA or graduate finance degree strongly preferred; Bachelor’s degree required
- 10+ years progressive experience in financial planning and analysis functions including annual budget, capital budgeting, long-term strategic planning and resource allocation processes
- Demonstrated success in financial modeling and analysis
- 5+ years leading teams responsible for financial planning and analysis
- Previous experience in private equity, investment banking, or strategy consulting strongly preferred
- Experience or strong knowledge within development and acquisitions, particularly in identifying and qualifying target opportunities strongly preferred
- Experience with Investor Relations in a public company context and treasury management strongly preferred
- Must be highly competent in running financial models; ability to guide and audit financial modeling activities required
- High degree of proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
- Able to lead complex and demanding project while managing multidisciplinary and potentially multicultural teams
- Excellent communication skills with capability to discuss overall company strategy and detailed financial results with Executives, Board of Directors and sophisticated investors and lenders
- Superb attention to detail and ability to focus on the "big picture"
- Excellent initiative and ability to multi-task and manage numerous simultaneous priorities
- Ability to adapt to and excel in a fast-paced environment
- Outstanding management and team building skills with direct reports and cross-functional colleagues
Full description
The Vice President Corporate Finance and Strategic Development will oversee the corporate finance function and manage key responsibilities for acquisition opportunities for the Mountain Division. Within Corporate Finance, the Vice President will oversee the Corporate FP&A, Investor Relations and Treasury functions. These teams work closely with the CFO, the Executive team, and broadly across the organization with finance, accounting and operational counterparts in each of the operating units of the company. This leader will directly report to the CFO.
Corporate Finance:
The Corporate Finance team develops comprehensive financial planning, forecasting and analysis to enable the company to align its resources with the achievement of its short and long term strategic goals. In addition, Corporate Finance is responsible for presenting and communicating the company’s results to internal stakeholders, the Board of Directors, shareholders and analysts.
- Lead all Financial Planning and Analysis Functions including:
- Operational Analysis
- Annual Operating Budget
- Annual Capital Planning
- Long-term Strategic Planning
- Monthly Financial Analysis and Forecasting
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Lead key finance initiatives to drive process improvement reporting that will deliver insights on critical business decisions
- Lead and manage the development of finance & business presentations for the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Investors
- Manage Corporate Finance Directors and Analysts, including those responsible for consolidation, G&A and Marketing, Investor Relations
Investor Relations and Treasury:
- Lead all Investor Relations activities for the company in coordination with CFO
- Maintain open lines of communications with analysts and investors
- Develop and frame the company’s message through Investor Relations materials, including investor and lender presentations.
- Actively monitor trends and drivers in movements in the stock price and investor positions in the stock
- Manage Investor Relations Manager and Treasury Analyst
- Oversee and monitor cash management
- Maintain strong banking relationships
- Develop expertise on existing lending and bond facilities
- Oversee lender reporting and lead lender communication
- Actively contribute to execution of all future financing activity
Strategic Development:
- Participate in the development of the Company’s growth strategy with senior executives; serve as a source of competitive and market intelligence, providing guidance to senior executives
- Oversee the evaluation of potential target ski resort acquisitions or long term management contracts, including management of due diligence process and leading project teams of relevant internal functional leads and external consultants where relevant