VP, Investor Relations

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

The VP, Investor Relations is responsible for facilitating constructive relationships and communications between Synchrony and its Wall Street constituencies. They will have direct ownership of all deliverables relating to the company’s earnings processes and corporate access events. In addition, they will partner closely with the Financial, Planning & Analysis, Public Relations and Corporate Governance leadership teams to optimize the content of our corporate disclosures.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with key members of the buy- and sell-side communities

• Build close relationships and maintain regular touchpoints with key internal business leaders

• Maintain comprehensive log of conversations with investment professionals, including timing of interactions, participants and key topics of focus

• Prepare earnings materials (including press release, presentation, Q&A, etc), thematic powerpoint presentations, and other investor-centric prep materials (i.e. fireside chat Q&A)

• Run regular shareholder composition and targeting analysis

• Maintain comprehensive competitive analysis and peer disclosure tracking

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance; CFA or MBA desirable but not required

• Minimum 7 years in Investor Relations role within financial services industry, with external engagement responsibilities

• Minimum 3 years on either buy- or sell-side

• Highly proficient in MSOffice suite, Bloomberg, IHS Markits (Ipreo BD Corporate), & Wdesk

• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

Desired Characteristics:

• Passionate, proactive, responsible, resourceful, detail-oriented, and hard-working

• Strong analytical and process skills, experience with financial models, and demonstrated ability to analyze data and distill into compelling insights

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to work cross functionally and communicate with all levels of the organization

• Proven leadership abilities, influencing skills, and the ability to lead/engage on cross-functional projects

• Highly responsive to both internal and external constituents with a bias toward solution-oriented action

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills

Grade/Level: 14

The salary range for this position is 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must be 18 years or older

• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles.  Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles.  Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post.  All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visa