Vice President, Finance

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Job Summary

Reporting to the Regional Senior Vice President for the Pacific Northwest Region, the Vice President of Finance plays a critical executive role. This position is responsible for overseeing all financial accounting, reporting, monthly and quarterly forecasting, and budgeting activities for the region. In addition, the VP provides strategic leadership for the Project Management Organization, Fleet Management, and Facilities Management functions. The role requires close collaboration with the region’s senior leadership team, Regional Senior Vice President, Sales, Growth, Customer Experience, Comcast Business, Human Resources and other functions to understand what is happening in the business to identify what needs to change, where support is needed and how to close performance gaps. The VP will be responsible for setting, coordinating, and communicating strategic business goals and objectives, connecting financial performance with operational drivers, customer experience, growth trends, and competitive dynamics. The VP will be accountable for driving business results through effective leadership and operational execution.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Serve as the regional fiduciary and finance leader.
• Provide financial expertise to operations leadership and interact with the region’s Senior Leadership Team on both operational and financial short-and-long-range planning, flagging risks, misses, and emerging trends early enough for the team to adjust and mitigate.
• Oversee preparation and review of monthly operating financial statements, monthly variance forecasting, external financial statements and budget data.
• Oversight of all general accounting functions – payables, general ledger, payroll, etc. – and assure adherence to generally accepted accounting practices.
• Analyze all aspects of financial performance within the region and provide recommendations for improvement, identifying what needs to change, where support is needed, and how to close those performance gaps.
• Ensure the integrity of business operations across all functions along with the region’s Senior Leadership Team.
• Lead budget, forecasting, planning, and analysis of the region.
• Drive P&L and growth results.
• Deliver P&L and capital performance above plan/targets.
• Assure regional compliance with Company policies and procedures focusing on requirements under Sarbanes Oxley.
• Coordinate responses for all internal audits.
• Ensure that all systems of financial and internal operational controls are functioning properly at the system and regional level.
• Direct all work associated with corporate year-end reporting packaging and local filings.
• Direct preparation of annual capital and operational budgets for the region.
• Develop strong talent, create diverse career paths, and help the finance team embrace change, improve how they operate, and translate financial discipline and operational fluency into better decisions, stronger execution, and credible partnership with local leaders and headquarters counterparts and partners.
• Oversight of regional Field Operations, Supply Chain, Facilities and Fleet Management.
• Review, coordinate and approve key internal hiring; review, coordinate and approve key contracts, including statements of work for vendors.
• Build strong peer relationships with headquarter counterparts and partners, bringing both financial rigor and local market insight to the conversation. 

Job Specifications:

• Minimum ten (10) years of progressively responsible finance/accounting experience, including management and direction of staff.
• Ability to lead a multi-site finance and accounting organization that serves a large customer and employee base.
• Strong capital management experience.
• Public accounting experience desirable, as is prior telecommunications financial experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Accounting. CPA and/or MBA preferred.
• Strong collaboration and teambuilding skills.

Additional Requirements:

• Experience supporting, and leading, large organizations.
• Demonstrated delivery of strong financial results with equally strong customer experience delivery.
• Savvy leader with strong emotional intelligence and a track record of developing talent.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to articulate business plans to both senior and frontline audiences.
• Prior experience working in a Fortune 50 environment preferred.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job. 
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users, and advocates of our game-changing technology, products, and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors, and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ+ employer.
• The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Leadership; Finance; Financial Performance; Business Operations; Operational Leadership

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $297,162.13 - $445,743.19

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

15 Years +