OverviewPosition: Vice President, Strategic Finance
Reports to: Senior Vice President, Strategic Finance
Location: Hybrid/Sandy Springs, GA (3 days in the office/2 days remote)
About This Opportunity:
The Vice President of Strategic Finance is a senior leader within GreenSky's Strategic Finance organization. This individual owns the financial plans, forecasts, and analysis that inform GreenSky's strategic and operating decisions, and serves as the lead finance business partner to Sales leadership, Pricing, and Risk/Analytics.
The VP will regularly interface with executive leadership, the Board, and bank partners when needed, and is expected to operate with strong analytical rigor, sound judgment, and clear communication in GreenSky's fast-paced, regulated fintech environment.
Duties & Responsibilities
Enterprise planning and forecasting
- Own the company's revenue, earnings, and three-statement financial forecast end to end
- Lead GreenSky's annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range financial planning processes
- Own the unit-economics and vintage-return framework (for example, ROTA and ROTE by offering), including sensitivity to funding costs, credit performance, and pricing actions
- Partner with Capital Markets, Treasury, and Accounting so that funding-cost, credit, and close assumptions are consistent across the plan, the forecast, and reported results
Decision support and business partnering
- Architect and perform financial modeling and scenario analysis supporting strategic decisions and business cases — for example, macroeconomic environment, investments in business growth, and market entry or exit
- Analyze profitability for existing business offerings and potential new ventures, and quantify the trade-offs for decision-makers
- Partner with commercial business leaders to translate operating plans into financial forecasts and key performance indicators, and build a performance-measurement regime that gives timely feedback on business decisions
Reporting and executive communication
- Lead monthly and quarterly financial reporting and variance analysis for business-area and executive leadership
- Prepare Board- and executive-level financial presentations on a recurring and ad hoc basis, and present the underlying analysis directly
Team, process, and technology
- Manage and develop a team of FP&A professionals, fostering high performance and building bench strength within the function
- Drive process improvements and automation across FP&A, reducing cycle time while improving forecast accuracy
- Recommend, implement, and use modern technology tools to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of financial forecasting and planning across the company
- Represent the function to executive leadership and as needed, the Board, external auditors, and bank/funding partners
Required Skills/Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Finance, including 5+ years in a senior leadership capacity influencing executive stakeholders, with expertise in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related discipline
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Exceptional financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills, with expertise across core FP&A processes — budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning — in a corporate finance environment
- Prior experience as a finance business partner to revenue-facing leaders in sales, pricing, or marketing
- Experience translating financial analysis into a clear business narrative for senior stakeholders, including preparation of executive- and partner-facing materials
- A demonstrated track record of influencing and collaborating with senior executives and, as needed, the Board, and delivering quantifiable revenue, risk, or efficiency outcomes
- Proven track record leading and developing finance teams or an enterprise-wide function, including people leaders
- Experience with enterprise financial forecasting and planning software
- Proven experience leveraging AI tools (MS Office 365 Copilot preferable) to create financial analyses, reports, and other work artifacts
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA, CFA, CPA, CTP, or FPAC
- Experience in consumer lending, point-of-sale finance, home improvement lending, payments, or another regulated financial-services environment
- Hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or a comparable enterprise planning/forecasting platform
- Understanding of bank-partner/financial-institution relationship models in consumer lending or fintech
