The Colorado Springs Gazette, LLC · 10 hours ago
Vice President of Financial Services
Colorado Springs, CO, US
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$150K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expThe Colorado Springs Gazette, LLC is seeking a Vice President of Finance to serve as a key member of the leadership team. This role is responsible for overseeing financial operations, managing budgets, and providing strategic financial guidance to the President and Publisher, while also supervising the finance and accounting department.
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Responsibilities
Supervises the finance and accounting department’s personnel (GL, AP, AR, Business Operations, Collections)
Prepares, implements and manages company-wide budgets
Manages and implements monthly financial reports and operational reviews, strategic planning and annual operating plans
Provide accounting oversight to ensure accurate and timely financial closes adhering to GAAP and other financial standards for all publications
Proactively and productively identifies threats and opportunities and develops business plans to address challenges
Leads the development, and implementation, of key changes in finance policies, best practices, methods, applications, tools and other standardization initiatives
Collaborates with and provides insight to President and COO
Develops and demonstrates a deep understanding of the business operations through a mixture of regular, routine interaction and systematic information gathering and analysis
Challenges forecasts and budget to assure quality, accuracy and logic
Analyzes key metrics, understands and interprets information to identify new business strategies and develops business cases supporting new strategies
Work closely with sales management to provide the data and analysis necessary to understand and grow revenue
Helps non-finance leaders interpret financial metrics to drive accountability
Prepares financial reports and analysis for the President and Publisher, the parent company, department directors and government agencies and ensures accuracy of all reporting
Serves as the financial liaison with our corporate parents to ensure corporate requirements and requests are timely met
Partners with divisional operations and actively promotes interdepartmental teamwork and participates or leads special project teams
Serves on the Gazette Charities board ensuring financial and reporting compliance
Communicates professionally and proactively
Qualification
Required
Undergraduate Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience as a finance professional with a minimum of three years as a Controller, VP, or CFO or equivalent experience
Computer Literacy – Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, and business database applications
Strong leadership skills with experience in successfully leading change
Ability to think strategically
Extremely detail oriented and quantitatively inclined
Excellent written and oral communications skills
Ability to apply good judgment to business practices and processes
Time management, organization and prioritization skills
Ability to identify opportunities for improving financial and business operations
Able to react to change productively and handle other essential duties as assigned
Preferred
MBA and/or CPA preferred
Company
The Colorado Springs Gazette, LLC
Philosophy: The Gazette is the primary information and advertising sources for the Colorado Springs area.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase