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Vice President, Finance Operations – Expense Management –

Robert Half · Fort Worth, TX · 1 mo ago
On-siteFinanceFull-time
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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Original text: "Vice President, Finance Operations – Expense Management – Fort Worth, TX 76102 | Hybrid | Financial ServicesReady to make your mark? A leading financial services firm seeks a strategic leader to own expense allocation and contract management across its investment platform. Reporting to the Head of FP& A, you'll set methodology and governance standards, build a high-performing team, and drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize systems and strengthen controls, with significant executive visibility.What you bring:12+ years of accounting/finance operations in financial services6+ years leading teams, including managing managersBachelor's required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferredStrong systems fluency and a record of driving automationWhy join? Competitive total compensation, generous retirement contributions, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid work schedule.Apply confidentially today! Joe.Faradie at roberthalf com - this is the best way to apply • 10+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or a related discipline, with substantial exposure to financial services environments. • At least 12 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance operations within the financial services industry. • 6+ years of leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers and building effective teams. • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced business or finance-related credentials are strongly preferred. • Strong knowledge of month-end close, general ledger activity, account reconciliations, journal entries, and audit support. • Demonstrated expertise in expense allocation and contract management within a complex operating environment. • Proven ability to work with financial systems and deliver automation or process improvement initiatives. • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to operate effectively in a high-visibility leadership role. Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles. Robert Half works to put you in the best position to succeed. We provide access to top jobs, competitive compensation and benefits, and free online training. Stay on top of every opportunity - whenever you choose - even on the go. Download the Robert Half app and get 1-tap apply, notifications of AI-matched jobs, and much more. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information. © 2025 Robert Half. An Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veterans. By clicking “Apply Now,” you’re agreeing to Robert Half’s Terms of Use and Privacy Notice." We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Also remove "Apply confidentially today! Joe.Faradie at roberthalf com - this is the best way to apply". Also remove Robert Half description, app, legal, EEO, etc. We need to preserve substantive info: role description, responsibilities, what you bring (requirements), why join (benefits). Also maybe mention hybrid schedule. We need sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities, Requirements/Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. From posting: Intro: "Ready to make your mark? A leading financial services firm seeks a strategic leader to own expense allocation and contract management across its investment platform. Reporting to the Head of FP& A, you'll set methodology and governance standards, build a high-performing team, and drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize systems and strengthen controls, with significant executive visibility." That's about the role. Responsibilities: maybe the same as above? Could treat as responsibilities: own expense allocation and contract management, set methodology and governance standards, build a high-performing team, drive multi-year roadmap to modernize systems and strengthen controls. What you bring: list of requirements: 12+ years accounting/finance ops in financial services; 6+ years leading teams, including managing managers; Bachelor's required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred; Strong systems fluency and record of driving automation. Then bullet list later repeats similar: 10+ years experience (but we have 12+), at least 12 years relevant experience, 6+ years leadership experience, Bachelor's degree required; advanced credentials preferred; Strong knowledge of month-end close, GL activity, reconciliations, journal entries, audit support; Demonstrated expertise in expense allocation and contract management; Proven ability to work with financial systems and deliver automation/process improvement; Strong analytical, organizational, communication skills. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all those bullet points. We can combine duplicates but must preserve info; we can deduplicate but not lose info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep each piece, but we can combine similar if they are same meaning? Might be considered summarizing away detail if we drop duplicates. Safer to keep all bullet points as given, even if some overlap. But we need to avoid duplication of lines? The instruction also says: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove duplicated lines. Duplicated lines likely refer to exact duplicate sentences. We have some overlapping but not exact duplicates. The bullet list after "Apply confidentially today!" includes items that are similar to earlier "What you bring". Some are exact duplicates? Let's compare: "What you bring:" list: - 12+ years of accounting/finance operations in financial services - 6+ years leading teams, including managing managers - Bachelor's required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred - Strong systems fluency and a record of driving automation Bullet list later: - 10+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or a related discipline, with substantial exposure to financial services environments. (not same) - At least 12 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance operations within the financial services industry. (similar to first but not exact) - 6+ years of leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers and building effective teams. (similar to second but not exact) - Bachelor’s degree required; advanced business or finance-related credentials are strongly preferred. (similar to third but not exact) - Strong knowledge of month-end close, general ledger activity, account reconciliations, journal entries, and audit support. (new) - Demonstrated expertise in expense allocation and contract management within a complex operating environment. (new) - Proven ability to work with financial systems and deliver automation or process improvement initiatives. (similar to fourth but not exact) - Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to operate effectively in a high-visibility leadership role. (new) Thus not exact duplicates, so we keep all. Now "Why join? Competitive total compensation, generous retirement contributions, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid work schedule." That's benefits and schedule. We need sections: Benefits, Pay, Schedule. The posting mentions competitive total compensation (pay), generous retirement contributions (benefit), comprehensive benefits (benefit), hybrid work schedule (schedule). So we can have Benefits section with retirement contributions, comprehensive benefits; Pay section with competitive total compensation; Schedule section with hybrid work schedule. We should not include sections with placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, with

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    for prose. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (maybe we can treat the intro as responsibilities, but we already have About the role). Could combine: About the role includes description of role and responsibilities. But we need to follow instruction: use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have multiple headings. We need to avoid empty sections. Let's structure:

    About the role

    Ready to make your mark? A leading financial services firm seeks a strategic leader to own expense allocation and contract management across its investment platform. Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you'll set methodology and governance standards, build a high-performing team, and drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize systems and strengthen controls, with significant executive visibility.

    Responsibilities

    • Own expense allocation and contract management across the investment platform.
    • Set methodology and governance standards.
    • Build a high-performing team.
    • Drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize systems and strengthen controls.
    But note that the responsibilities are essentially same as intro; but we can still list them. Alternatively we could skip Responsibilities and just have About the role. But we need to avoid thin sections. However we have content for responsibilities. Now Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: The posting lumps qualifications and skills. We could have Requirements (education, experience) and Skills (technical, soft). Let's decide. We have experience requirements: 12+ years accounting/finance ops in financial services; 6+ years leading teams, including managing managers; Bachelor's required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred; Strong systems fluency and record of driving automation. Also from bullet list: 10+ years experience in accounting, finance ops, or related discipline with substantial exposure to financial services environments; at least 12 years relevant experience in accounting or finance ops within financial services industry; 6+ years leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers and building effective teams; Bachelor’s degree required; advanced business or finance-related credentials strongly preferred; Strong knowledge of month-end close, GL activity, account reconciliations, journal entries, audit support; Demonstrated expertise in expense allocation and contract management within a complex operating environment; Proven ability to work with financial systems and deliver automation or process improvement initiatives; Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with ability to operate effectively in a high-visibility leadership role. We could separate into Requirements (experience, education) and Skills (technical, soft). But the instruction says we can have sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to avoid thin sections. We have plenty of content for each. Let's create:

    Requirements

    • 12+ years of accounting/finance operations in financial services
    • 6+ years leading teams, including managing managers
    • Bachelor's degree required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred
    • Strong systems fluency and a record of driving automation
    • 10+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or a related discipline, with substantial exposure to financial services environments
    • At least 12 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance operations within the financial services industry
    • 6+ years of leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers and building effective teams
    • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced business or finance-related credentials are strongly preferred
    But note duplication of bachelor's degree etc. Might be considered duplicated lines? The bullet list includes Bachelor’s degree required; advanced business or finance-related credentials are strongly preferred. That's similar to earlier "Bachelor's required; CPA, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred". Not exact duplicate but similar. The instruction says remove duplicated lines. Not sure if they consider similar as duplicated. Safer to keep both as they are distinct bullet points from the posting. Now Skills:

    Skills

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