The Senior Director of Operations Finance will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Honor. This role involves a blend of financial planning, analysis, and strategic thinking to support decision-making processes and drive long-term financial health and growth.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading critical company-wide financial planning processes including annual budgeting, monthly P&L reviews, forecast updates, and headcount and opex approvals. By leveraging data, analyzing financial performance, and applying creative thinking, you will identify opportunities, inform prioritization of strategic initiatives, and help ensure that operational improvements translate into financial results. This is a key leadership position with frequent senior executive interaction and full company visibility.   

Responsibilities:

• Financial Planning & Analysis: lead company-wide budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes. Providing insights and recommendations based on thorough analysis. 
• Systems and Process Improvement: Identify process gaps and proactively drive continuous improvement to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Establish a vision for financial planning systems and partner with technology teams to implement.  
• Financial Modeling and Analysis: Build and maintain sophisticated models that can translate operational performance into financial results. Conduct data-driven analyses to guide business initiative prioritization and resource allocation.  
• Performance Metrics and Analysis: Foster a shared understanding of business performance drivers and key operational metrics to inform strategic decision-making.
• Business Case Development and Evaluation: Develop comprehensive business cases and conduct post-mortem evaluations to assess the success and areas for improvement of major initiatives.
• Data Integration and Analysis: Synthesize multiple data sources to identify interdependencies and generate actionable insights.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with operations, product, legal, engineering,  and marketing teams to identify opportunities, plan improvements, and track performance against budgets and goals.
• Cost-Benefit Valuation and Reporting: Independently evaluate the costs and benefits of major initiatives and produce regular reports to compare realized outcomes against projections.
• Team Management: hire, develop and manage a team of high performing professionals.  Set goals and prioritize deliverables.

To succeed in the role, you’ll need:

• Professional Experience: Over 10 years of experience in a senior corporate finance role at a high-growth company. Experience working for a late stage startup, preferred
• FP&A Software Expertise: Extensive experience with Anaplan, Adaptive (preferred), Cognos, or another similar financial planning and analysis software. Ability to improve team productivity by identifying and championing configuration changes, integrations, or other systems improvements.      
• Industry Expertise: Prior experience supporting startup / high growth healthcare companies is a plus, particularly in health-tech.
• Financial Modeling and Strategic Insights: Proven ability to build complex financial models and extract strategic insights to drive real-time business decisions. Proficiency in skillfully conveying findings through data visualizations.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely present complex analyses to senior leadership. Extreme attention to detail. 
• Process Leadership: Ability to independently design and manage processes requiring input from many different people. Strong orientation towards setting and maintaining timelines and holding others accountable. 
• Adaptability: Comfortable performing in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing both internal and external stakeholders, and working effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to participate in C-level presentations and collaborate with all levels of management across multiple organizations globally.