Head of Finance

Experience level: mid senior level.

What You'll Do

• Lead Viya Health’s annual financial planning, budgeting, performance management, and commercial finance across all entities, markets, and business lines.
• Develop the annual budget, multi-year business plans and rolling forecasts, and run the monthly business review to drive corrective action on underperformance.

• Assess investment proposals for viability, risk, and budget impact, and build scenario models to inform growth, financing, and capital allocation decisions.

• Own pricing and margin governance, including cross-border consistency and exception approval, and track unit economics by brand, market and channel.

• Set up, maintain and strengthen Viya Health's financial policies, procedures and internal controls framework. Oversee the Controller's output and review and sign off on financial statements across Viya Health, ensuring multi-entity consolidation is accurate, timely and fit for Board and investor reporting. Ensure audit readiness throughout the year and lead the year-end audit process. Own the delegation of authority and ensure statutory, tax and regulatory compliance in every country Viya Health operates in, working with in market teams and local advisors. Own the finance systems roadmap (ERP, consolidation, planning and reporting tools) and the data that feeds Viya Health's KPIs.

• Manage and report on Viya Health's overall financial performance to the President and senior leadership, and produce the financial narrative for Board and investor/funder materials. Prepare and deliver all financial reporting required by investors and funders on schedule, including covenant compliance reporting and required financial disclosures; surface risks early so that no covenant breaches occur. Deliver the reporting required by the HealthX Partners group, including the finance elements of the group accountability framework, and restricted grant reporting to funders. Produce the quarterly MD&A report, ensure all transactions are recorded appropriately and that grant, impact investment and earned revenue streams are accurately reflected and aligned with financial performance.

• Own cash forecasting and liquidity across all Viya Health entities and currencies, including foreign exchange exposure and repatriation of funds, and maintain a rolling cash forecast. Manage banking and treasury, lender and investor relationships, and lead future capital raising, debt facilities and inventory financing as Viya Health scales. Set intercompany funding, transfer pricing and treasury policy across the group.

• Identify, monitor and work with markets and business lines to ensure key financial metrics are performing as planned.  Identify risks to performance, opportunities to improve operational performance and manage business adaptation with market and business leads to address risks. Develop processes, tools and agreements that support business management, quality financial and business performance and oversight. Ensure that financial data is complete and accurate.

• Provide financial modelling, analysis and counsel to support strategic decisions, including capital allocation across markets and business lines, pricing for existing and new segments, and investment sequencing as Viya Health enters new geographies. Oversee tax management and ensure invoicing between entities and within markets is managed appropriately. Lead financial due diligence for new partnerships, grants or investment structures, and. Lead the finance side of Viya Health's legal entity and holding company structure, tax planning and any restructuring, and the finance workstream for new market entry, entity set-up and partnerships.

• Manage the finance team, including the Controller and Strategic Financial Analyst and the regional finance leads for Africa, Latin America and Asia, with dotted-line leadership of the market Finance and Operations managers, ensuring the operational finance function is robust and independently capable. Develop the finance operating model and clear ownership and decision rights across global, regional, and market levels. Identify, develop, and lead capacity building across Viya Health. Partner with the Chief Operating Officer on sales and operations planning, inventory policy and working capital.

• 10-25% travel, primarily international

This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that an incumbent is expected to perform but is instead a summary of the primary responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be asked to perform duties not included above. Viya Health reserves the right to revise job profiles at any time based on changes to the required job responsibilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field.

• Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) preferred.

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) desired.

• At least 10 years of related experience, including senior finance leadership experience in an international context is ideal. Equivalent combination of related education and experience may be substituted.

• At least 5 years of supervisory experience.

• Experience building or rebuilding a finance function (team, controls, systems and operating model), ideally in a growth-stage company between $25 million and $150 million in revenue.

• Hands-on experience with debt facilities, covenant management and lender or investor reporting.

• Commercial experience with P&L Management, ownership of process improvements. Excellent financial and operational modeling skills.

• Excellent financial management and risk assessment skills. Experience recommending investment decisions, scenario analysis and senior leadership engagement.

• Experience in a tech, health, or consumer goods business operating across multiple markets/geographies with a service and sales function.

• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency consolidated financial management; in-depth knowledge of emerging and developing markets (ideally Africa, Asia or Latin America) preferred.

• Comfortable with blended-finance structures; understands the difference between grant, impact investment, equity and earned revenue and can report credibly against all four.

• Prior experience with multi-entity structures, corporate restructuring or spin-out finance highly advantageous.

• Excellent strategic and analytical skills. Able to diagnose complex problems, generate effective solutions and communicate compelling strategic courses of action.

• Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail. Able to balance multiple projects and manage tight deadlines in a fast-paced and at times ambiguous environment. Comfortable with organizational evolution as Viya Health builds its systems and processes in real time.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to translate complex financial information to a variety of audiences. Track record of presenting financial performance and strategic financial narratives to investors, Board members or donor audiences, and of building trust quickly with financial and non-financial leaders.

• Working knowledge of ERP systems (Infor Lawson) and database warehousing or OLAP preferred.

• Expert Excel user, including pivot tables and advanced functions. Familiarity with data query tools preferred.

• Experience working within a group or holding company structure with shared services preferred.

• Fluent English required; Spanish or French is an asset.

• Genuine alignment with Viya Health's mission; understanding of the women's health access context in lower-middle-income markets is an asset.

We know that a long list of requirements may be discouraging, but don’t let imposter syndrome or the confidence gap in the way of you applying — we’d love to hear from you.

Why Work at Viya Health?

Viya Health’s work is about creating an environment for individuals to thrive—we think this should apply to our employees, too.

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