Vice President, Global Commercial Finance

This URUS senior leadership role is critical in driving financial planning, analysis, and performance management for our global commercial operations. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the VP of Global Commercial Finance will collaborate with senior leadership across regions and functions to ensure alignment with corporate strategy, foster profitable growth, and optimize financial performance.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Leadership:

• Develop and implement commercial finance strategies, metrics, processes, and procedures that align with URUS’ global commercial objectives.
• Partner with URUS Chief Commercial Officer to build strategies that drive revenue growth, margin expansion, and commercial cost optimization.

Commercial Support:

• Serve as a key partner to the sales and marketing teams, providing financial guidance on pricing strategies, contract negotiations, and customer profitability.
• Lead financial evaluations for new market entries, product launches, distribution/direct decisions, and strategic initiatives through business case preparation and presentation
• Establish frameworks for measuring ROI on commercial investments, promotions, and partnerships.
• Contribute to the commissions and compensation plans and designs with URUS People

Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Lead the global financial planning process, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial modeling for CCR (Sales, Contribution Margin, and Selling and Marketing OPEX)
• Oversee the development of financial KPIs and dashboards to monitor and evaluate performance.
• Work proactively with the controllership organization to provide actionable insights through in-depth financial analysis of key drivers, risks, and opportunities in commercial selling and marketing areas

Operational Excellence:

• Ensure robust financial controls, compliance, and governance across all commercial finance activities in compliance with global accounting standards.
• Drive process improvements and leverage technology to streamline reporting and enhance decision-making for the commercial and marketing teams
• Lead efforts to optimize working capital, focusing on accounts receivable, credit, and collections.  Special attention should be given to the intensity of usage by the commercial organization
• Lead cross selling opportunity deal construction and revenue integrity relative to strategic commercial objectives
• Oversee commercial contracting with measured performance against targets, rebates, schemes, or performance metrics when evaluating distribution partners

Team Leadership:

• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing global commercial finance team, consisting of Regional Commercial Finance Directors for North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC regions and their teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, especially withing the finance team.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the finance function.
• Oversee system management for tracking for commercial assumptions of budgets to outcomes for achievement and success measurements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or a related field
• At least ten (10) years managing multi-location, multi-company (enterprise) finance program required
• Experience managing complex projects across multiple stakeholders
• Experience in a multinational company with complex operations across diverse markets
• Knowledge of financial systems and tools (e.g., Hyperion, JD Edwards or similar platforms)
• Familiarity with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
• Experience in industries with complex sales cycles 

Skills & Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills to engage, influence, and educate at all levels throughout the organization