VP, Strategic Finance
Job Overview
The Vice President of Strategic Finance is a senior finance leader responsible for driving enterprise profitability, growth strategy, and financial performance across SBM. This role integrates traditional finance leadership with commercial strategy, pricing, and market expansion. The VP will partner closely with the CFO and executive leadership team to:
- Optimize margin and cash flow across the portfolio
- Drive new business growth and expansion into target verticals
- Develop cross-selling strategies to optimize growth across all major contracts
- Identify and resolve underperforming operations and accounts
Roles & Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.
- Enterprise Financial Leadership
- Provide executive oversight of financial performance, reporting, and analytics across the organization
- Maintain deep understanding of financial statements, cost structures, and operating drivers
- Drive continuous improvement in cost savings and budget performance
- Profitability & Performance Optimization
- Own enterprise margin strategy across fixed fee, T&M, and performance-based contracts
- Identify, analyze, and remediate underperforming contracts and business units
- Partner with operations to improve labor efficiency, cost structure, and profitability
- Design and implement financial models to incentivize organic growth and margin expansion
- Develop performance-based bonus and incentive frameworks aligned to EBITDA growth
- Strategic Finance & Pricing
- Evaluate contract economics, pricing models, and NPV returns
- Benchmark competitor pricing and industry margins to reposition offerings
- Support major bids, RFPs, and client negotiations with financial insights
- Business Development & Market Expansion (~40–50%)
- Drive net-new revenue growth across priority verticals and sales channels
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategies aligned to high-growth segments
- Identify cross-sell opportunities across services and existing clients
- Conduct market analysis to identify emerging opportunities
- Executive Partnership & Leadership
- Act as a strategic thought partner to the CFO and senior leadership team
- Present insights, recommendations, and performance updates to executive leadership and stakeholders
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Finance, Operations, and Sales
- Drive accountability for financial and operational performance across divisions
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
- Education And/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or related field (required)
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
- CPA, CFA, or similar credential a plus
- 5+ years in strategic finance, corporate finance, or consulting
- Experience in facilities management, IFM, or service-based industries strongly preferred
- Proven success driving revenue growth and margin expansion
- Deep experience with pricing strategy, contract structures, and deal economics
- Strong background in financial modeling and analytics
- Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- High-impact, externally oriented finance leader with strong commercial instincts
- Executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite decisions
- Data-driven with strong problem-solving capability
- Comfortable operating across strategy, finance, and operations
- Willingness to travel and engage directly with clients and field operations
Physical Demands & Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Benefits
SBM offers comprehensive benefit packages. For information about SBM's benefits, please visit SBM's website at: www.sbmmanagement.com/careers