Vice President

About the role

Vice President at Accordion leads the Strategic Finance Practice, helping Finance teams enhance performance visibility, planning activities, data analytics, and business partnering. This role works with a diverse set of colleagues from private equity, investment banking, FP&A, Big 4, and financial controllership to address complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Identify and rectify issues across a broad range of scenarios, such as:

  • Determining data availability and reliability and designing a structured process to aggregate relevant data sets for a financial services company emerging from bankruptcy.
  • Completing a diagnostic deep dive into budgeting and forecasting processes for a higher education enterprise scaling through acquisitions.
  • Designing a singular finance function for a PE sponsor consolidating operations and establishing a new CFO.

• Work collaboratively with a diverse set of colleagues to deliver reports, presentations, and memos, presenting data-driven insights clearly and comprehensively.

• Manage multiple complex workstreams while focusing on one's own, leading by example and seeking guidance when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics; MBA is a plus
• Minimum 6 years of experience at a top-tier private equity firm, investment bank, and/or consulting firm
• High attention to detail and advanced quantitative skills, especially in financial modeling and corporate valuation
• Proven ability to leverage Excel and other tools (e.g. PowerBI) to manage, simplify, analyze, and present large and complex datasets
• Transactional and operational finance experience
• Prior experience preparing reports, presentations, and memos
• Strong drive and motivation, adhering to the highest professional standards
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a team-oriented environment

Qualifications

• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

Skills

• Excel and other tools (PowerBI)
• Data analysis and presentation
• Financial modeling and corporate valuation
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Communication and presentation skills

Benefits

Annual salary ranges from $153,000 to $210,000 USD + benefits + bonus.

Pay

The annual salary for this role ranges from $153,000 to $210,000 USD + benefits + bonus.

Schedule

This role is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.