Finance Business Partner POST NUMBER: 483918

We are recruiting a Finance Business Partner for a rapidly growing company in the RTP/Durham area.   This role blends accounting, financial analysis, and operational finance, serving as the primary finance partner for a dynamic business unit.  You will work directly with Operations to ensure financial information is accurate and timely, while helping improve processes, strengthen reporting, and support continued growth.  This is position offers broad exposure to business operations versus a traditional accounting role.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary finance partner supporting an operational business unit and its leadership team.
• Own key portions of the monthly close process, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Partner with operations to analyze revenue, margins, operating expenses, inventory activity, and other key business metrics.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and ongoing financial planning activities.
• Review transactional data for completeness and accuracy while identifying trends and business insights.
• Support billing, vendor activity, reimbursements, and other operational finance processes.
• Prepare financial reporting packages and communicate results to both finance and operational leadership.
• Help identify opportunities to automate manual processes, improve reporting, and strengthen internal controls through technology and AI-enabled tools.
• Collaborate across accounting, finance, and operations to improve efficiency as the business continues to expand.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, CPA is a plus
• 2 years of experience in public accounting, corporate accounting, financial analysis, or a combination of both.
• Experience supporting business operations, field teams, manufacturing, distribution, retail, project-based, or other operational environments is highly valued.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.