Finley Road Partners provides specialized administrative, human resources, staffing, and related employer services for a variety of clients. The Company specializes in event labor management. With local expertise and national reach, we have the industry’s most comprehensive database of technicians, and the country’s best crewing managers located on the ground in local markets throughout North America. We’re the Employer-of-Choice for field technicians around the U.S. and Canada.
Job Summary:
The Vice President, Corporate FP&A and Decision Support is a senior finance leader responsible for building and running the company's corporate Financial Planning & Analysis function. This role partners closely with the Controller and broader finance organization and works directly with senior operating leadership across the company's sports staging, rigging, and music/broadcast production businesses. The VP will lead enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; provide decision support and margin analysis for pricing and contract decisions across the music and sports broadcast markets; evaluate the financial return on technology investments; and build out a scalable FP&A organization to support the company's growth. This role carries significant, regular exposure to company senior leadership and Private Equity ownership.
General Duties/Responsibilities:
- Own the corporate FP&A calendar: annual budget, monthly/quarterly forecasts, and multi-year long-range planning across Program Productions and affiliated entities
- Serve as the primary financial decision-support partner to senior operating leadership in the music and sports broadcast markets, translating operational and commercial questions into financial analysis
- Lead pricing analysis and support for staging, rigging, and production services contracts, including bid/quote economics and rate-card strategy
- Drive margin analysis at the project, contract, customer, and entity level; identify and quantify margin drivers, risks, and improvement opportunities
- Provide financial evaluation and business-case support for technology investments, including build-vs-buy, ROI, and payback analysis
- Partner with the Controller to reconcile forecast-to-actual results, ensure consistency between reported actuals and forward-looking plans, and align on month-end close implications for forecasting
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards and management reporting that give leadership real-time visibility into performance versus budget, forecast, and prior year across all entities
- Prepare and present financial materials for senior leadership, executive, and ownership/board-level meetings
- Lead scenario planning and ad hoc financial modeling in support of strategic initiatives (e.g., new business lines, capital investment, M&A evaluation)
- Recommend and implement process, systems, and automation improvements to increase the speed and accuracy of planning and reporting
- Partner with other finance leaders (Controller, Treasury/other finance roles) to ensure a consistent, well-controlled financial planning process across the organization
- Define and build out the corporate FP&A organization, including determining which existing and future FP&A positions report into this role as the broader finance structure is finalized
- Hire, coach, and develop FP&A staff as the organization scales; set individual and team performance goals
- Establish the operating rhythm, standards, and career paths for a growing FP&A organization
- Perform other duties as required
