Vice President, Finance
About IMG Academy
IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.
IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for student-athletes and partners through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:
- Boarding school and camps, delivered on a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Florida
- Online coaching through IMG Academy+, focused on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
- Online college recruiting through NCSA College Recruiting and SportsRecruits, providing industry-leading recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of more than 40,000 college coaches for student-athletes, families, club coaches, and event operators
- Elevate by IMG Academy, a performance and personal development solution that delivers mindset, leadership, and wellbeing programming to schools, colleges, and organizations through a combination of digital content and immersive experiences
Position Summary:
The Vice President, Finance provides strategic financial leadership, risk assessment, and due diligence for Senior Management to drive value and maximize profitability. They provide support in customer negotiations, pricing analysis, and overall sales/marketing support. This requires financial analysis of new products and service lines as well as international business development support. They will partner with the operation leaders of the organization to drive the proper relationship between cost and customer experience.
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide support for customers including pricing support, credit qualification and strategy
- Optimize our pricing approach by working with Sales and Marketing to appropriately understand our market segmentation and develop pricing strategies relevant to each segment
- Optimize CRM and lead Pipeline weekly review to ensure efficient progress through Sales Cycle
- Understanding of Sales productivity and ability to drive a more efficient sales cycle and close rate
- Ensure Accurate and complete understanding of historical and forward-looking Bookings, Revenue and Cash
- Provide strategic financial leadership, risk assessment, and due diligence for Sr. Management to drive value and maximize profitability
- Operational Reporting: Lead the development and distribution of operational financial reports to provide insights into key performance metrics and drive decision-making across the organization.
- Standardize procurement process and drive increased YOY savings via leverage and scale as the company grows
- Support IT development of finance-based applications and software implementations
- Manage Finance support of quality assurance testing of new or enhanced applications
- Participate in strategic decisions to expand capital expenditures for ERP and other potential software package developments
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or closely related field required
- 7 + years experience in Public and Privately held companies
- Strong communications skills – listening, team building, selling, writing and presenting
- Demonstrated time and organizational management skills
- Strong results orientation
- Experience working with highly experienced and educated professional staff
- Microsoft office skills required
- Ability to understand, implement, and monitor CPS developed tools
- Ability to work independently and handle stress appropriately
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, and possess strong time management skills
- Ability to set priorities, make critical decisions, and respond to client concerns
- Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written)
Preferred Skills:
- Master’s degree in related field preferred
- CPA or CMA preferred
- Experience in education preferred
Background Requirements:
- Requires a background check upon offer
- Requires a drug test upon offer
As a full-time member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive offering listed below. Connect with your talent acquisition specialist to learn more about benefits for our part-time and seasonal/temporary roles.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
- 401k with an Employer Match
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
- Gym Discount Program
- Pet Insurance
- Wellbeing Program
- and more!
Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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IMG Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.