Vice President, Head of Corporate FP&A

States considered: New Jersey

Role Description

Overview:

The Vice President, Head of Corporate FP&A is a strategic leader on the Corporate Finance team, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance. This role drives world-class financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics—leveraging advanced technologies including AI—to provide actionable insights and inform executive decisions at Zoetis. As a cross-functional partner, this executive delivers proactive financial guidance, rigorous management reporting, and robust scenario analysis, while fostering continuous improvement in forecasting processes and resource allocation. The VP leads organizational transformation within FP&A, ensures data-driven decision-making, and communicates complex financial matters to diverse audiences including the CEO, CFO, and Board. Exceptional leadership, analytical capabilities, and proven experience in global collaboration are essential, as is a commitment to developing a high-performing, future-ready team, including 4 direct reports.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Advise executive leaders and senior management on all aspects of financial planning, investment priorities, cash flow, external reporting, and financial policy.
• Translate corporate strategy into actionable financial targets and dynamic, multi-year resource plans; provide strategic guidance on trade-offs, risks, and value creation.
• Serve as the principal finance thought partner to the CEO/CFO/SVP Corporate Finance/Executive team, proactively identifying opportunities, issues, and challenges to optimize enterprise performance and growth.

Enterprise Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting & Modeling

• Lead, refine, and elevate enterprise planning, forecasting, and annual budgeting processes in partnership with business units, ensuring accuracy, strategic alignment, and timely completion.
• Drive the adoption and integration of emerging finance trends such as digital transformation, macroeconomic scenario analysis, and AI-enabled planning into FP&A frameworks and recommendations.
• Own the long-range planning (LRP) process, including scenario and sensitivity modeling and integrated risk management—ensuring strategic relevance and accuracy in all planning and forecast cycles.
• Provide advanced financial modeling, predictive analytics, and scenario analysis to support growth initiatives, restructuring, capital planning, major investments, and operational improvements; communicate impacts of internal and external changes, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and required course corrections.

Executive Reporting, Corporate Financial Analysis & Business Partnership

• Present company-wide financial results, key trends, and actionable insights to the CEO, CFO, SVP Corporate Finance and Executive team to enable informed strategic and operational decision-making.
• Oversee the preparation and communication of financial deliverables, including monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc revenue analyses, variance explanations, and management reporting.
• Own enterprise management reporting, including management P&L, headcount reporting, variance analytics, KPI scorecards, and performance narratives.
• Spearhead business partnering activities, supporting commercial decisions and enabling the highest standards of KPI and metrics reporting.
• Develop and deliver executive-ready materials for monthly/quarterly business reviews, ad hoc decision support, and targeted planning discussions.
• Prepare high-impact materials for the Board of Directors, CFO, CEO, and Audit Committee, clearly articulating complex financial insights, scenarios, and recommendations.

Capital Allocation, Investment Governance & Transformation

• Drive enterprise capital allocation and the multi-year resource roadmap, including investment prioritization, capex planning, and ROI governance; establish financial frameworks to evaluate investment cases.
• Partner with Strategy, BD/M&A, Product Development, VMRD, and enabling functions on business cases, valuation support, synergy modeling, and value realization tracking.
• Champion scalable, standardized processes and continuous improvement initiatives to elevate FP&A from reporting to proactive enterprise value creation.

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)<