Director Finance
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Key info:
- Department: Corporate Finance
- Job Type: Regular Full Time
- Education Level: BA/BS
- Required Years Experience: 10
- Description: Church Pension Group (CPG) ... etc.
Essential duties and responsibilities: many bullet-like sentences.
Qualifications: list of skills.
Education & Experience: BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred; Experienced in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing, preferred but not required; 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required.
Physical demands: extensive use of computer keyboard.
Work environment: hybrid work environment, requires working in CPG’s office Tuesdays through Thursdays and flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays.
Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000
Benefits: list of flexible benefits, core benefits, elective benefits, discretionary annual incentive program.
We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief paragraph summarizing role), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe education/experience), Qualifications (skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not include sections with placeholder or generic like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We need to decide what goes where.
About the role: could be a paragraph describing the role: The Director Finance will report to the SVP Finance and be responsible for assisting with the organization’s financial planning and analysis which includes the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative expenses and financial management metrics. Also mention department, location, etc.
Responsibilities: list of essential duties.
Requirements: maybe education level and years experience? But we also have Qualifications (skills). The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly.
We have both Qualifications and Skills headings; maybe Qualifications for education/experience, Skills for skill list. But we can also combine. However we need to avoid thin sections. Let's see.
We have:
- Education & Experience: BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred; Experienced in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing, preferred but not required; 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required.
That's qualifications (education/experience). Could go under Requirements or Qualifications.
- Qualifications list: Strong leadership and teamwork skills; Experience with financial planning and reporting tools; Strong financial modeling skills and experience with business intelligence tools; Ability to manage and maintain quality control over large data sets; Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills; Effective and efficient problem-solving skills; Logical and confident decision-maker; Strong communicator at all levels of the organization with ability to influence broadly; Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships throughout CPG; Consultative, collegial, and collaborative working style to facilitate working relationships with key stakeholders.
That's skills.
Thus we can have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred. Experience in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing preferred but not required. 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required.
Skills
- ...
Benefits
- ...
Pay
Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000
Schedule
Hybrid work environment: required in-office Tuesdays through Thursdays; remote flexibility Mondays and Fridays.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract responsibilities list exactly as given, but we can rephrase slightly? Must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We can keep the sentences as list items.
Responsibilities list from text:
- Leads Financial Management Related To G&A Expenses
- Drives the budgeting, forecasting and monitoring and reporting of G&A expenses
- Manages the execution and analysis of cost allocations
- Proposes annual guidance on financial management metrics for G&A expenses to SVP Finance and CFO in collaboration with Cost Center Managers, including identifying and assessing performance against relevant benchmarks
- Drives continuous improvement in management reporting by leveraging technology and business intelligent tools
- Supports Finance Committee / Board materials related to G&A expenses: Prepares and maintains standard reporting templates for the quarterly CFO and Finance Committee presentations related to G&A expenses
- Supports Financial Analysis team in reviewing G&A for the business budgets to ensure consistency across various business lines
- Supports Finance team in establishing highly effective business partnering with Cost Center Managers: Collaborates with the Financial Analysis team in effectively troubleshooting issues that may delay providing information timely
- Ensures consistent quality and timely deliverables to Cost Center Managers in collaboration with the Financial Analysis team
- Leads ad hoc analysis requested by management
- Collaborates with SVP Finance and Financial Analysis team to standardize financial processes
- Continuously identifies opportunities to drive automation in financial reporting
- Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration.
We need to keep all.
Now Benefits: list many items. We need to preserve all substantive information. The benefits section includes:
Flexible Benefits Available To Eligible Employees
- Medical (including Vision)
- Dental
Core Benefits Automatically Provided To Eligible Employees
- Employer funded defined benefit pension plan (five year vesting)
- Employee Life Insurance
- Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage
- Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax)
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- Worker’s Compensation
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years)
- Retiree life insurance
Elective Benefits Available To Eligible Employees
- 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Benefits
- New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents)
- Educational Assistance Program available to eligible employees
- Parental Leave available to eligible employees
- Time Off available to eligible employees: Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holidays
- You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
We need to keep all.
We should not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Already removed.
Now About the role: we can summarize: The Director Finance reports to SVP Finance, assists with financial planning and analysis, preparation and monitoring of overall G&A expenses and financial management metrics. Also mention department Corporate Finance, location Midtown Manhattan, etc. Keep substantive.
Let's craft:
The Director Finance reports to the SVP Finance and assists with the organization’s financial planning and analysis, including the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative (G&A) expenses and financial management metrics. The role is within the Corporate Finance department based in Midtown Manhattan.
That captures.
Now Requirements: we have education and experience. Could also include physical demands? Physical demands: extensive use of a computer keyboard. That's a requirement but maybe we can include under Requirements as a note. However we have no separate heading for Physical demands; we could include in Requirements paragraph. But we must not invent. We can add: "Extensive use of a computer keyboard is required to perform the essential functions." That's from Physical Demands. So include.
Thus Requirements paragraph: "BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred. Experience in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing preferred but not required. 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required. Extensive use of a computer keyboard is required to perform the essential functions."
Now Skills: list the qualifications.
Now Benefits: list as ul.
Now Pay: salary range.
Now Schedule: hybrid work environment.
Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: Work environment description includes "Currently, hybrid work environment, which requires working in CPG’s office Tuesdays through Thursdays and flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays." Also "Church Pension Group employees must maintain a professional, compassionate, and trustworthy work environment always." That's a bit of fluff but still substantive? It's a statement about work environment expectations. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not typical EEO but it's a workplace expectation. Might be okay to include but we can keep just the hybrid schedule. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line about professional, compassionate, trustworthy work environment is not exactly EEO but could be considered boilerplate? It's a generic statement about work environment. Might be considered boilerplate; safer to omit. We'll keep only the hybrid schedule.
Also we have "Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable someone with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job within this environment." That's also boilerplate (ADA). Likely remove.
Thus schedule section: just hybrid.
Now ensure we don't repeat job title.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's construct.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's write:
About the role
The Director Finance reports to the SVP Finance and assists with the organization’s financial planning and analysis, including the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative (G&A) expenses and financial management metrics. The role is within the Corporate Finance department based in Midtown Manhattan.
Responsibilities
- Leads Financial Management Related To G&A Expenses
- Drives the budgeting, forecasting and monitoring and reporting of G&A expenses
- Manages the execution and analysis of cost allocations
- Proposes annual guidance on financial management metrics for G&A expenses to SVP Finance and CFO in collaboration with Cost Center Managers, including identifying and assessing performance against relevant benchmarks
- Drives continuous improvement in management reporting by leveraging technology and business intelligent tools
- Supports Finance Committee / Board materials related to G&A expenses: Prepares and maintains standard reporting templates for the quarterly CFO and Finance Committee presentations related to G&A expenses
- Supports Financial Analysis team in reviewing G&A for the business budgets to ensure consistency across various business lines
- Supports Finance team in establishing highly effective business partnering with Cost Center Managers: Collaborates with the Financial Analysis team in effectively troubleshooting issues that may delay providing information timely
- Ensures consistent quality and timely deliverables to Cost Center Managers in collaboration with the Financial Analysis team
- Leads ad hoc analysis requested by management
- Collaborates with SVP Finance and Financial Analysis team to standardize financial processes
- Continuously identifies opportunities to drive automation in financial reporting
- Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration
Requirements
BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA
for prose. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the description. Key info: - Department: Corporate Finance - Job Type: Regular Full Time - Education Level: BA/BS - Required Years Experience: 10 - Description: Church Pension Group (CPG) ... etc. Essential duties and responsibilities: many bullet-like sentences. Qualifications: list of skills. Education & Experience: BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred; Experienced in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing, preferred but not required; 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required. Physical demands: extensive use of computer keyboard. Work environment: hybrid work environment, requires working in CPG’s office Tuesdays through Thursdays and flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000 Benefits: list of flexible benefits, core benefits, elective benefits, discretionary annual incentive program. We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief paragraph summarizing role), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe education/experience), Qualifications (skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not include sections with placeholder or generic like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We need to decide what goes where. About the role: could be a paragraph describing the role: The Director Finance will report to the SVP Finance and be responsible for assisting with the organization’s financial planning and analysis which includes the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative expenses and financial management metrics. Also mention department, location, etc. Responsibilities: list of essential duties. Requirements: maybe education level and years experience? But we also have Qualifications (skills). The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly. We have both Qualifications and Skills headings; maybe Qualifications for education/experience, Skills for skill list. But we can also combine. However we need to avoid thin sections. Let's see. We have: - Education & Experience: BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred; Experienced in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing, preferred but not required; 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required. That's qualifications (education/experience). Could go under Requirements or Qualifications. - Qualifications list: Strong leadership and teamwork skills; Experience with financial planning and reporting tools; Strong financial modeling skills and experience with business intelligence tools; Ability to manage and maintain quality control over large data sets; Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills; Effective and efficient problem-solving skills; Logical and confident decision-maker; Strong communicator at all levels of the organization with ability to influence broadly; Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships throughout CPG; Consultative, collegial, and collaborative working style to facilitate working relationships with key stakeholders. That's skills. Thus we can have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred. Experience in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing preferred but not required. 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required.
Skills
- ...
Benefits
- ...
Pay
Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000
Schedule
Hybrid work environment: required in-office Tuesdays through Thursdays; remote flexibility Mondays and Fridays.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract responsibilities list exactly as given, but we can rephrase slightly? Must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We can keep the sentences as list items. Responsibilities list from text: - Leads Financial Management Related To G&A Expenses - Drives the budgeting, forecasting and monitoring and reporting of G&A expenses - Manages the execution and analysis of cost allocations - Proposes annual guidance on financial management metrics for G&A expenses to SVP Finance and CFO in collaboration with Cost Center Managers, including identifying and assessing performance against relevant benchmarks - Drives continuous improvement in management reporting by leveraging technology and business intelligent tools - Supports Finance Committee / Board materials related to G&A expenses: Prepares and maintains standard reporting templates for the quarterly CFO and Finance Committee presentations related to G&A expenses - Supports Financial Analysis team in reviewing G&A for the business budgets to ensure consistency across various business lines - Supports Finance team in establishing highly effective business partnering with Cost Center Managers: Collaborates with the Financial Analysis team in effectively troubleshooting issues that may delay providing information timely - Ensures consistent quality and timely deliverables to Cost Center Managers in collaboration with the Financial Analysis team - Leads ad hoc analysis requested by management - Collaborates with SVP Finance and Financial Analysis team to standardize financial processes - Continuously identifies opportunities to drive automation in financial reporting - Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration. We need to keep all. Now Benefits: list many items. We need to preserve all substantive information. The benefits section includes: Flexible Benefits Available To Eligible Employees - Medical (including Vision) - Dental Core Benefits Automatically Provided To Eligible Employees - Employer funded defined benefit pension plan (five year vesting) - Employee Life Insurance - Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance - Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance - Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage - Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax) - Business Travel Accident Insurance - Worker’s Compensation - Employee Assistance Program - Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years) - Retiree life insurance Elective Benefits Available To Eligible Employees - 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting) - Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) - Commuter Benefits - New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents) - Educational Assistance Program available to eligible employees - Parental Leave available to eligible employees - Time Off available to eligible employees: Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holidays - You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. We need to keep all. We should not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Already removed. Now About the role: we can summarize: The Director Finance reports to SVP Finance, assists with financial planning and analysis, preparation and monitoring of overall G&A expenses and financial management metrics. Also mention department Corporate Finance, location Midtown Manhattan, etc. Keep substantive. Let's craft:The Director Finance reports to the SVP Finance and assists with the organization’s financial planning and analysis, including the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative (G&A) expenses and financial management metrics. The role is within the Corporate Finance department based in Midtown Manhattan.
That captures. Now Requirements: we have education and experience. Could also include physical demands? Physical demands: extensive use of a computer keyboard. That's a requirement but maybe we can include under Requirements as a note. However we have no separate heading for Physical demands; we could include in Requirements paragraph. But we must not invent. We can add: "Extensive use of a computer keyboard is required to perform the essential functions." That's from Physical Demands. So include. Thus Requirements paragraph: "BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA preferred. Experience in insurance, retirement benefits or publishing preferred but not required. 10+ years of financial planning and analysis work experience required. Extensive use of a computer keyboard is required to perform the essential functions." Now Skills: list the qualifications. Now Benefits: list as ul. Now Pay: salary range. Now Schedule: hybrid work environment. Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: Work environment description includes "Currently, hybrid work environment, which requires working in CPG’s office Tuesdays through Thursdays and flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays." Also "Church Pension Group employees must maintain a professional, compassionate, and trustworthy work environment always." That's a bit of fluff but still substantive? It's a statement about work environment expectations. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not typical EEO but it's a workplace expectation. Might be okay to include but we can keep just the hybrid schedule. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line about professional, compassionate, trustworthy work environment is not exactly EEO but could be considered boilerplate? It's a generic statement about work environment. Might be considered boilerplate; safer to omit. We'll keep only the hybrid schedule. Also we have "Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable someone with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job within this environment." That's also boilerplate (ADA). Likely remove. Thus schedule section: just hybrid. Now ensure we don't repeat job title. Now output HTML fragment only. Let's construct. We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed. Let's write:About the role
The Director Finance reports to the SVP Finance and assists with the organization’s financial planning and analysis, including the preparation and monitoring of overall general and administrative (G&A) expenses and financial management metrics. The role is within the Corporate Finance department based in Midtown Manhattan.
Responsibilities
- Leads Financial Management Related To G&A Expenses
- Drives the budgeting, forecasting and monitoring and reporting of G&A expenses
- Manages the execution and analysis of cost allocations
- Proposes annual guidance on financial management metrics for G&A expenses to SVP Finance and CFO in collaboration with Cost Center Managers, including identifying and assessing performance against relevant benchmarks
- Drives continuous improvement in management reporting by leveraging technology and business intelligent tools
- Supports Finance Committee / Board materials related to G&A expenses: Prepares and maintains standard reporting templates for the quarterly CFO and Finance Committee presentations related to G&A expenses
- Supports Financial Analysis team in reviewing G&A for the business budgets to ensure consistency across various business lines
- Supports Finance team in establishing highly effective business partnering with Cost Center Managers: Collaborates with the Financial Analysis team in effectively troubleshooting issues that may delay providing information timely
- Ensures consistent quality and timely deliverables to Cost Center Managers in collaboration with the Financial Analysis team
- Leads ad hoc analysis requested by management
- Collaborates with SVP Finance and Financial Analysis team to standardize financial processes
- Continuously identifies opportunities to drive automation in financial reporting
- Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration
Requirements
BA/BS required, in Finance/Accounting preferred; MBA