Role: VP of Operations and Finance

Job Type: Full Time, Direct Hire

Rate: $145,000 - $175,000 (DOE)

Start Date: Immediate Interviews

Location: Rockville, Maryland (Hybrid)

Job Description:

Our agency client is looking for a full-time VP of Operations and Finance with experience from an events agency that specializes in both live and virtual events, specifically for large-scale conferences for global brands.

Responsibilities:

As a VP of Operations and Finance, your key responsibilities include:

• Serve on the leadership team to collaborate in planning and execution of overall strategy

Oversee the operations of the company including:

• Management of contracts and of legal firms
• Managing of Talent Resources, including recruiting, onboarding, and HR procedures and policies
• Managing of infrastructure including information technologies and offices

Oversee the financial operations and team, including:

• Manage all accounting and financial processes and reporting systems including accounts payables and receivables, monthly and EOY reconciliations, cash flow, revenue projections, tax strategy, and financial analysis
• Direct the preparation and management of the annual operating budget and all financial reporting
• Management and implementation of necessary accounting, financial, and risk management strategies, controls, processes, and systems
• Handling the procurement process, vendor agreements, and client contracts from sourcing, to negotiating, to execution
• Project accounting management
• Interface proactively with outside tax firms.
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Skills/Qualifications:

The ideal VP of Operations and Finance will have:

• Experience building great teams
• Strong operational experience, along with solid financial background, preferably in a startup, entrepreneurial, or services organization
• A proven track record of results-driven negotiating, problem solving, and process development and deployment
• A strong tool kit that enables you to support a team and organization with a balance of clarity and flexibility
• An understanding on how to best navigate an ecosystem of full-time creatives, freelancers, independent contractors, and subcontractors
• Experience managing and implementing systems and processes that are balanced in efficiency and purpose to support teams doing their best creative work