Vice President, Finance Shared Services
San Ramon, CA - USA
Job Summary
Principal Responsibilities
Strategic Allocation & Methodology
- Design & Evolution: Develop and maintain the logic for how shared platform costs (Executive IT HR CLO/Legal) are allocated across independent balance sheets.
- Driver-Based Modeling: Collaborate with functional leads (CIO CHRO CLO) to identify the specific unit drivers of their costs transforming static overhead into a dynamic transparent service catalog.
- Capital Structure Integrity: Ensure all service charges are defensible and aligned with the requirements of our independent debt structures and external stakeholders.
Pillar Advisory & Commercial Management
- Strategic Business Partnering: Act as the primary financial liaison for the Pillar strategy. You will educate leadership on their service charge profiles and help them optimize their use of shared resources.
- Conflict Resolution: Serve as the objective arbiter for allocation queries ensuring that the financial relationship between the platform and the Pillars remains fair and incentivizes efficient growth.
- Performance Analysis: Monitor the unit cost of HoldCo services over time to ensure the platform is delivering true economies of scale to the Pillars.
Planning & Executive Reporting
- Integrated Planning: Lead the annual budgeting process for Shared Service units ensuring HoldCos financial goals are aligned with the Pillars independent P&L constraints.
- Executive Visibility: Provide the CFO and Corporate Executive Team with data-driven insights into the ROI of centralized functions and the overall health of the intercompany economic ecosystem.
- Operational Narrative: Partner with the Controller and Tax teams to provide the commercial narrative behind the GAAP and Tax reporting for internal and external audiences.
Candidate Requirements
- Experience: 12 years of progressive experience in Strategic Finance Operations Finance or Management Consulting. Experience in a multi-entity or Platform-style environment is highly preferred.
- Education: Bachelors degree in Finance Economics or a related field; MBA or CFA preferred.
- Technical Skills: Expert-level financial modeling and the ability to build scalable automated allocation engines from complex data sets.
- Communication: Exceptional executive presence. Ability to navigate sensitive commercial negotiations with autonomous business unit leaders.
- Mindset: A Commercial Owner who can treat centralized G&A as a service business and the Pillars as sophisticated clients.
About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the worlds largest cloud solution providers serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group you are making a difference for real people each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn dream and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color creed sex or gender sexual orientation gender identity gender expression ethnicity national origin ancestry citizenship religion genetic carrier status disability pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status) marital status military service protected veteran status political activity or affiliation taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
Cloud Software Group will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history and conduct the recruiting process in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance. For access to the laws see the following links:California FCAandLos Angeles FCO.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process please contact us via the Bridge portal for assistance.
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About Company
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