Vice President Finance

About the role

The VP, FP&A will lead enterprise FP&A transformation for a premier luxury consumer brand at a pivotal moment of portfolio focus, transformation, and private equity ownership. The role offers a very compelling compensation and benefits package with short-term and long-term incentives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise FP&A transformation, including annual budget, quarterly and rolling forecasts, long-range planning, risks and opportunities tracking, and executive reporting cadence.
• Coach and strengthen the FP&A team, setting clear priorities, raising analytical standards, improving cadence and accountability, and building a more proactive business-partner mindset.
• Build and mature driver-based financial models connecting revenue, volume, mix, pricing, channel performance, inventory, COGS, OPEX, capital investment, cash flow, and operational constraints.
• Improve forecast discipline and reduce business surprises by building a more anticipatory planning process, clearer risk/opportunity tracking, and stronger insight into the drivers of performance.
• Develop clear, concise financial reporting and dashboards for CFO, CEO, executive leadership team, Board, and ownership group.
• Partner across Commercial Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Accounting, IT, and executive leadership to ensure financial plans reflect business strategy, operational realities, and portfolio priorities.
• Leverage and improve planning systems, reporting tools, data governance, and dashboard infrastructure to create a more reliable source of truth for enterprise decision-making.
• Identify and implement practical AI-enabled tools and advanced analytics to improve forecast accuracy, reporting efficiency, scenario modeling, and the finance function’s ability to support faster, more data-informed decisions.
• Support strategic finance workstreams, including capital allocation, ROI analysis, pricing and margin insights, portfolio planning, M&A support, integration, and value-creation tracking.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, or business planning.
• Demonstrated success operating as a hands-on builder or coach-player leader in a mid-market, transformation-oriented, or high-growth environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise planning processes, including annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and executive-level financial analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to connect financial and operational metrics to business outcomes, translating channel, customer, distributor, and brand performance into specific, actionable growth and improvement opportunities.
• Experience building or improving driver-based planning models tied to business fundamentals such as volume, mix, pricing, channel, inventory, COGS, OPEX, working capital, and cash flow.
• Strong operational finance fluency in a physical-product business, ideally in beverage, food, agriculture, premium CPG, manufacturing, or another inventory-intensive consumer-products environment; wine experience is helpful, but not required.
• Experience improving planning systems, reporting processes, data quality, and dashboard infrastructure; familiarity with tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive, Planful, Power BI, Tableau, NAV/Dynamics, NetSuite, SAP, or similar platforms is preferred.
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience applying AI, machine learning, automation, or advanced analytics to strengthen forecasting, scale the finance function, and build a forward-looking, anticipatory planning capability over time.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear recommendations for senior leaders, board members, and ownership stakeholders.
• Genuine interest in the wine category, with the curiosity and humility to learn the craft, operating model, culture, and portfolio dynamics of the business.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and elevate finance teams, including setting priorities, improving cadence, raising standards, and fostering a proactive business-partner approach.
• Experience in a transformation-oriented or high-growth environment is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, CPA, CFA, or other relevant advanced credential preferred.