Vice President, Financial Planning & Strategy

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes Position Summary, Essential Responsibilities (with subcategories), Qualifications, Location, Compensation & Benefits, About WQED. Also maybe "Reports to: President & CEO Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Status: Full-time" is metadata; we can fold into a short

. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. However we need to map content to these headings appropriately. The instructions: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. Thus we need to decide which sections to include based on content. The posting has: - Position Summary (prose) - Essential Responsibilities (with subcategories: Financial Planning & Analysis Lead, Strategic Partnership & Decision Support, Finance Leadership & Oversight, Membership Revenue & Performance, Institutional Funding & Grant Revenue). This is a list of duties/requirements. Could be under

  Responsibilities

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  • each bullet. - Qualifications (list of qualifications). Could be under

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    • . - Location (Pittsburgh-based role with regular on-site presence... occasional remote work). This could be under

      Schedule

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      but not in allowed headings list? The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Location is not listed. However we could fold location into a short

      maybe under About the role? Or we could treat location as part of About the role? The instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

      or drop it." Location maybe considered metadata? But it's substantive: location and remote work. Could be placed under a

      Schedule

      (since schedule includes remote work). Or we could create a

      About the role

      that includes position summary and location. However they said "About the role" is a possible heading. We could use that for position summary and location. But we also have separate "About WQED" which is about the organization; that could be under

      About the role

      ? Actually "About the role" is about the job, not the organization. "About WQED" is about the company; could be under

      About the role

      ? Might be better to have a separate section for "About WQED" but not in allowed headings. However we could treat it as part of "About the role" or maybe we can omit it? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information". So we need to include About WQED info. We could put it under a

      About the role

      but that might be confusing. Alternatively we could create a

      About the organization

      but not in allowed list. The instruction says use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The "e.g." suggests those are examples, not an exhaustive list? It says "use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. It doesn't forbid other headings, but likely they expect us to use those. However we could still use other headings if needed, but risk deviating. Safer to stick to those headings. We can incorporate About WQED into About the role or maybe into Responsibilities? Not ideal. Perhaps we can treat About WQED as part of "About the role" (the role at WQED). Or we could create a

      About the role

      that includes both position summary and About WQED. That would preserve info. Compensation & Benefits: we have salary range and benefits. That's Pay and Benefits. So we can have

      Pay

      with salary range, and

      Benefits

      with benefits list. However instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state them, so we can include. Schedule: we have location and occasional remote work. Could be under Schedule. Or we could treat location under Schedule. We'll include Schedule heading with location and remote work note. Requirements vs Qualifications: The posting has Qualifications. Could map to Requirements heading. We'll use

      Requirements

      for qualifications list. Skills: Not explicitly listed; we could omit Skills section if no specific skills listed beyond qualifications. Better to omit than create filler. Thus sections: About the role (position summary + About WQED), Responsibilities (essential responsibilities), Requirements (qualifications), Pay (salary range), Benefits (benefits list), Schedule (location/remote). Possibly also include "Reports to: President & CEO" metadata folded into a short

      maybe under About the role. We must not repeat job title as heading. Good. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

      About the role

      Reports to: President & CEO. Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Status: Full-time.

      Position Summary: WQED Multimedia is seeking a Vice President of Financial Planning and Strategy to lead financial planning, analysis, forecasting, and strategic decision support for the organization. This is not a traditional Controller role. WQED works with an outsourced accounting partner that manages day-to-day accounting, accounts payable and receivable, monthly and year-end close, audit support, and tax preparation coordination. WQED recently adopted QuickBooks and BILL for its core financial operations. The Vice President of Financial Planning and Strategy will focus primarily on the future: helping WQED understand the financial implications of its decisions, evaluate the sustainability and diversification of its revenue, anticipate risks and opportunities, and build realistic plans for the years ahead. As a member of WQED’s executive team, the Vice President will partner closely with the President & CEO and department leaders to translate strategy into financial plans, forecasts, scenarios, and decision-useful analysis. The successful candidate will be comfortable bringing structure to complexity, working with imperfect information, questioning assumptions constructively, and building useful tools and processes over time. The Assignment Help WQED see around corners financially and make better informed decisions about the future. Establish a forward-looking financial planning discipline that connects strategy, revenue sustainability, departmental plans, cash needs, and organizational capacity, giving leaders practical tools to test assumptions, understand tradeoffs, and plan with confidence. What Success Looks Like: WQED can see potential financial challenges earlier and has more time to respond to them. Leadership understands which revenue streams are growing, declining, concentrated, vulnerable, or capable of expansion, including membership and emerging sources such as e-commerce and merchandise. Budgets, rolling forecasts, cash projections, and scenario models are practical and active management tools, rather than annual exercises. Senior leadership and the Board of Directors receive concise, decision-oriented financial information that explains what the numbers mean and what may happen next. Institutional grant and underwriting/sponsorship opportunities are pursued with stronger visibility into pipeline, probability, financial requirements, and long-term sustainability.

      But we need to avoid duplication; we already included location in the short p. The position summary is long; we can keep as prose. Now Responsibilities: we need to list duties. The posting has subheadings: Financial Planning & Analysis Lead, Strategic Partnership & Decision Support, Finance Leadership & Oversight, Membership Revenue & Performance, Institutional Funding & Grant Revenue. Under each there are bullet-like sentences. We'll create
      • for each duty. Could combine subheadings as part of li text. Let's extract each duty: Financial Planning & Analysis Lead: - Lead WQED’s annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes, working with department heads to develop realistic assumptions and maintain an updated view of expected financial performance and cash flow. - Build multi-year financial models that help WQED evaluate organizational sustainability over a three- to five-year horizon and beyond. - Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for significant organizational decisions, including changes in revenue, staffing, programming, capital needs, real estate, asset sales, and other major investments or commitments. - Analyze WQED’s revenue portfolio for sustainability, concentration, diversification, predictability, and growth potential, including measuring and forecasting emerging sources such as e-commerce and merchandise. - Translate financial performance, trends, risks, and assumptions into practical recommendations for leadership. Strategic Partnership & Decision Support: - Serve as a financial thought partner to the President & CEO, executive team, and department heads, connecting operational priorities and plans with their financial implications and anticipated needs over multiple years. - Prepare financial analyses, presentations, and other materials for WQED’s Board of Directors and its Finance and Audit Committees. - Ask constructive questions, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and help leaders evaluate tradeoffs among competing priorities. - Develop dashboards and management reporting that combine financial results, forecasts, and third-party data to surface meaningful variances, patterns, risks, and opportunities. Finance Leadership & Oversight: - Serve as the primary internal relationship owner for WQED’s outsourced accounting partner, banks, auditors, and investment advisors, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and accountability. - Maintain appropriate oversight of financial controls, policies, accounting practices, and financial reporting without duplicating functions assigned to the outsourced accounting team. - Coordinate with external partners on annual audit, tax filings, regulatory reporting, and other financial compliance requirements. - Evaluate WQED’s financial systems, processes, data, and reporting tools and recommend improvements where they will meaningfully improve efficiency or decision-making. Membership Revenue & Performance: - Provide executive oversight of WQED’s membership revenue, a $6+ million annual revenue stream supported by more than 50,000 individual contributors across direct mail, telephone, web, broadcast, and other channels. - Identify emerging risks and opportunities early by using vendor dashboards, benchmarks, and data warehouses to identify changes in acquisition, renewal, retention, average gift, channel performance, cost, and net revenue. - Translate membership data into actionable recommendations, helping leadership distinguish short-term campaign variation from structural changes in donor behavior or revenue performance. - Provide leadership and direction to the Senior Manager, Member Services & Operations, connecting donor-service infrastructure, vendor performance, data quality, and processing reliability to the overall health and growth of the membership program. Institutional Funding & Grant Revenue: - Provide executive oversight of WQED’s grant strategy and pipeline, leading staff and contracted resources responsible for prospecting, proposal development, reporting, and renewal, with attention to mission alignment, revenue potential, organizational capacity, and long-term sustainability. -