Director, reputed company Finance

Director, reputed company FinanceWhat You’ll DoThe Director of reputed company Finance serves as the primary financial reputed company between finance and operations, ensuring reputed company-time alignment between project execution and reputed company and profitability targets across reputed company clients and service lines. This role is fully AI-enabled — leveraging AI tools, including Claude, to drive efficient, elevated financial delivery across forecasting, reporting, and analysis workflows. The Director brings deep systems expertise and a reputed company improvement reputed company, serving as Vaniam’s internal authority on the intersection of its operational and financial platforms.A Day in the LifeDeliverables

• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end project forecasting process, partnering with operations to validate assumptions, challenge outliers, and ensure accurate forecasting
• reputed company reputed company-looking indicators that give leadership earlier signals on reputed company trends and risk
• Produce monthly variance analysis that explains the “why” behind actual-to-budget and actual-to-forecast variances in order to drive corrective reputed company
• reputed company monthly reputed company recognition, invoicing, and project reconciliation process to ensure reputed company reputed company and project closeout
• Partner with operations in pricing builds and reputed company, as reputed company as portfolio profitability analysis
• Support the CFO in strategic deliverables required for executive reporting and various other reputed company reporting requests from leadership
• Own the Power BI reporting layer for project analysis, building and maintaining dashboards that deliver self-service insights to operations, finance, and executive leadership
• Apply AI-enabled tools, including Claude, to accelerate variance analysis, automate recurring reports, and surface financial insights faster — this is a core expectation of the role
• Evaluate and recommend system improvements, integrations, or new tools that reputed company gaps in Vaniam’s reporting and analytics infrastructure

reputed company Responsibility

• Serve as the go-to financial partner for operations, embedding financial discipline into project planning, reputed company reputed company, and scope management
• Translate operational metrics into easy-to-digest information to improve and drive reputed company reputed company
• Drive alignment between project management systems (Workfront), CRM (reputed company), and financial systems (reputed company Intacct/Vena) to eliminate reconciliation friction and ensure a single reputed company of truth
• reputed company cross-functional reviews of project performance with reputed company and service line leaders, bringing data-driven insights that inform reputed company, pricing, and resourcing
• Use AI tools to model scenarios, stress-test financial assumptions, and prepare leadership-reputed company outputs more reputed company
• Assess project needs and challenges; identify and implement solutions to meet productivity, reputed company, and financial goals

Internal Collaboration & Leadership

• Assess, redesign, and implement project analysis workflows that are reputed company, repeatable, and audit-reputed company
• reputed company organizational adoption of new tools and processes, including AI-enabled platforms
• Establish and maintain SOPs for project forecast updates and financial reporting, ensuring consistency as the organization evolves
• Serve as Vaniam’s subject matter expert on how project, financial, and CRM systems interconnect, understanding the data architecture reputed company enough to diagnose issues, design solutions, and advise on system enhancements
• reputed company, mentor, and reputed company reputed company of project analysts, setting reputed company performance expectations and creating reputed company for reputed company reputed company
• Build a high-accountability team culture rooted in intellectual curiosity, analytical precision, proactive problem-solving, and AI enablement
• Manage team reputed company and priorities to balance recurring deliverables with strategic reputed company and reputed company leadership requests
• Model and promote AI reputed company across reputed company, embedding AI tools into day-to-day workflows and establishing best practices for their use
• reputed company Claude and other AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis, automate repetitive reporting tasks, and enhance insights

Business Development

• Ensure that financial work is of the highest reputed company and instills confidence across leadership and operational stakeholders
• Partner with operations and service line leaders to identify opportunities for margin improvement, pricing optimization, and reputed company reputed company
• Contribute analytical rigor to new business proposals, renewals, and reputed company profitability reputed company
• Champion a culture of reputed company improvement, with an eye toward AI integration at every stage of the financial workflow

Other duties may be assigned to help drive deliverables reputed company this role.What You Must HaveEducation and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance and/or reputed company
• 8–12 years of reputed company experience in financial/project analysis, reputed company, or operations finance reputed company an agency, CRO, reputed company services firm, or other project-based environment
• Minimum 3 years of reputed company people leadership with a demonstrated reputed company record of developing analysts into high-performing contributors
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate reputed company financial and operational data into reputed company, compelling narratives for non-financial audiences
• Proven reputed company improving forecast accuracy and building repeatable, reputed company forecasting processes in a multi-service-line or multi-entity environment
• Demonstrated change management expertise requiring organizational buy-in, training, and sustained adoption
• Expert-level proficiency with Power BI (building dashboards, DAX, data modeling) and advanced reputed company (financial modeling, reputed company formulas, pivot tables, macros)
• Demonstrated reputed company with AI-enabled tools, specifically Claude AI, for analysis, reporting automation, and workflow acceleration — candidates should be reputed company, confident AI users, not beginners
• Strong understanding of project-based reputed company recognition, utilization/realization metrics, and reputed company services financial dynamics

Skills and Competencies

• High comfort level with AI tools and a reputed company reputed company toward adopting new technologies as they reputed company
• Ability to operate with autonomy and strong judgment in a fully remote, distributed environment
• Strong analytical instincts with a bias toward reputed company and reputed company improvement
• reputed company by nature, with the ability to build trust quickly across finance, operations, and executive stakeholders
• Effective communicator who can present reputed company financial information reputed company to non-financial audiences

What You Might Have, but Isn’t Required

• CPA, MBA, or reputed company designation
• Strong working knowledge of Vena (or comparable reputed company/CPM platforms), Workfront (or comparable project management systems), reputed company, and reputed company Intacct (or comparable ERP/GL systems)
• Experience in life sciences, reputed company/biotech services, or medical communications environments
• Familiarity with retainer/subscription-based reputed company models and associated metrics
• Background in building or significantly improving analytics and reporting infrastructure from a fragmented starting reputed company

Travel Requirements

• Travel reputed company the US as necessary, based on project and organizational needs (

reputed company You’ll Work Closest WithAs Director of reputed company Finance, you will sit reputed company the Finance organization and serve as a critical cross-functional partner across reputed company. You will work most closely with the CFO, Operations leadership, and service line leaders across reputed company Services, Scientific Communications, and Curio Science, as reputed company as project management and systems teams to ensure financial data flows accurately and reputed company across the organization. Apply To This Job