Vice President, FP&A
Position Overview Ethos Veterinary Health has an exciting opportunity to join our high-performing dynamic finance team. We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead our financial strategy, planning, and performance analysis efforts across the organization. This role is essential to shaping the financial direction of our rapidly growing veterinary specialty and emergency company. The VP of FP&A will be a key business partner to our operations team as well as support center team leads, providing actionable insights that drive operational performance, ensuring data-driven decision-making, resource allocation, and long-term growth across our organization.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Financial Leadership
- Lead the company’s annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate strategic objectives and operational realities.
- Deliver insightful, value-added, cross-company modeling and analysis, to drive improved business performance
- Build and maintains business unit budget and forecast modelling
- Facilitate and budget for capital planning and ROI analysis on those investments
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO, CFO, and senior leadership on financial implications of strategic initiatives
Performance Management & Decision Support
- Develop and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and financial models that track key metrics across business units, identifying areas for improvement and riving initiatives that optimize financial performance
- Provide financial guidance for pricing, profitability analysis, capital expenditures, and investment prioritization.
Team Leadership
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing FP&A team capable of supporting a multi-site, multi-service veterinary organization.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, financial rigor, and collaboration.
- Player/coach mentality to support ongoing multi-level initiatives
Systems & Processes
- Oversee the enhancement of FP&A tools, systems, and processes
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, and scalability across a growing and dynamic organization.
- Become a key partner for a company-wide FP&A transformation project bringing new tools and processes to Finance
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
- 10 years of progressive financial leadership experience, ideally with 5 years at the corporate level of a global / multi-division public company
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills a must
- Multi-site/state experience
- Public company and PE-back company experience highly preferred
- Demonstrated success in financial modeling, strategic planning, and operational analysis in a multi-entity, service-based environment.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Ideal candidate will have experience in both large multi-divisional corporate enterprises as well as nimble middle market growth companies and thinks 3-5 years ahead into the next business cycle
- Strong technical and analytical skills as well as a hands-on entrepreneurial mindset. Generates alternative solutions by collaborating with people who are impacted by, or have knowledge of the problem, issue or challenge
- Ability to develop, manage, and continuously improve complex multi-disciplinary processes and models with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to translate financial data, trends, etc. into pictures, graphics, and stories to a variety of internal and external constituents
- Ability to work in the ‘gray’
- Brings technical, analytical and intellectual rigor with a high attention to detail
- Highly analytical, technically proficient, operationally and business savvy
The base salary range for this full-time position is up to $270,000 annually. Our salary ranges are primarily determined by role, level, and location. The range provided for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The Company offers competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision benefits, vacation, sick leave, 401(k), and more depending on location. Your recruiter can provide more information about compensation and benefits for your specific location during the application process.
- This role is not open to receiving agency candidates and any contingent submissions will not be honored.