Vice President, FP&A

Established in 1996 and rebranded to Scout in 2024, we built our foundation on planning meetings for numerous organizations within the life sciences sector (Scout Meetings).  In response to emerging industry needs, we expanded our services to include Scout Clinical, one of the top providers of clinical trial patient reimbursements and travel.

Scout is recognized as a leader in our field for innovation in service, attention to detail, our stellar team members, and making the complex easier.  If this interests you, we’d love to have you join our rapidly growing team! 

Position Summary:

We are looking to hire a talented, eager, and skilled Vice President, FP&A to join our team in a remote position. The Vice President, FP&A is a hands-on strategic leader responsible for leading Scout’s finance function across FP&A, financial reporting and analytics, the business-side build-out of Scout’s finance data warehouse, finance-related compliance, and operational finance support. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role partners closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to translate financial and operational data into actionable insights, strengthen forecasting and budgeting processes, improve project and study-level profitability visibility, and support scalable growth across Scout’s patient travel, reimbursement, site payment, investigator meeting, travel, lodging, and clinical trial support services. This role also serves as a client-facing finance representative for study-level forecasting, reporting, profitability, and financial performance questions.

Responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:

• Lead the finance function, including FP&A, financial analytics and reporting, the business-side build-out of the finance data warehouse, finance-related compliance, and finance support for patient travel, reimbursement, site payments, investigator meetings, travel, and lodging services.
• Own the business-side build-out and ongoing expansion of Scout’s finance data warehouse, partnering with technology and data teams to define requirements, ensure data integrity and definitions across systems, and enable scalable financial and operational reporting.
• Partner with the CFO to prepare executive and Board of Directors reporting, including financial results, operating KPIs, forecasts, strategic initiatives, and board decks.
• Own, modernize and evolve the annual forecast and budget process to meet new ownership expectations, improve planning rigor, and align financial plans with strategic and operational priorities.
• Develop and maintain detailed financial models, including revenue, margin, operating expense, capital expenditure, cash flow, and scenario analyses, to support new business endeavors such as site payments and other scalable service offerings.
• Improve visibility into project and study-level profitability, efficiency, and cost drivers, providing leadership with actionable insights to improve margins and operational performance.
• Oversee enterprise forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, scenario modeling, variance analysis, KPI development, dashboarding, and executive-ready financial narratives.
• Lead financial reporting and analytics processes that support client billing, client statements, sponsor reporting, internal management reporting, and senior leadership decision-making.
• Serve as a client-facing finance representative to address questions related to study-level forecasting, reporting, financial performance, profitability, spend trends, and budget assumptions.
• Partner with accounting on data integrity and month end close auditing.
• Own finance support for investigator meetings, including meeting budgets, reconciliation, vendor and travel cost oversight, profitability analysis, and client reporting.
• Support pricing, profitability analysis, margin diagnostics, business case evaluation, client financial performance reviews, and resource allocation decisions.
• Partner with cross functional operational leaders translate operational performance into financial insight while driving accountability across the organization.
• Ensure financial data integrity across SAP, Concur, Power BI, Data Warehouse, Salesforce, Excel-based models, proprietary portals, and operational databases.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve finance processes, controls, documentation, reporting standards, and operating rhythms to support scalability, compliance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Lead, mentor, and develop finance team members while promoting accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and high standards of integrity and professionalism.
• Complete all required initial and ongoing training within a reasonable or provided timeframe.

The ideal candidate will have the following experience, skills, and knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience; MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.
• Minimum of seven years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, financial reporting and analytics, budgeting, forecasting, business partnership, and operational finance leadership.
• Healthcare or life sciences industry experience required.
• Experience in a tech-enabled services business required.
• Prior experience partnering with and/or overseeing data warehouse teams and buildouts required; SQL experience is a plus.
• Strategic and hands-on finance leader with the ability to move between executive-level planning and detailed operational execution.
• Strong FP&A expertise, including forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, scenario modeling, variance analysis, KPI development, and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze profitability, margins, efficiency, and cost drivers at the project, study, client, service line, and enterprise level.
• Advanced analytical and technical skills using SAP, Concur, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Salesforce, Excel, and related finance, reporting, ERP, CRM, and operational systems.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-ready narratives for senior leadership, clients, and stakeholders.
• Comfortable serving as a client-facing finance leader, explaining study-level forecasts, reporting outputs, profitability trends, and financial assumptions in a clear, professional, and consultative manner.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to evaluate pricing, business cases, resource allocation, new service offerings, and financial implications of operational decisions.
• Proven ability to build scalable processes, documentation, controls, and reporting frameworks that improve accuracy, compliance, efficiency, and accountability.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, judgment, organization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence across Finance, Accounting, Operations, Product, Compliance, and executive leadership.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, prioritization, performance management, team development, and promotion of a positive and professional work environment.
• Ability to schedule and meet deadlines, manage multiple priorities, maintain strong attention to detail, and remain flexible to meet business, accounting, audit, client, and ownership reporting requirements.
• Uphold and promote high standards of integrity, professionalism, confidentiality, and compliance in all interactions and decisions.

Scout offers a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support your health, work-life balance, and growth. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage and more.  

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