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The Vice President, Finance drives eHealth’s financial strategy and provides leadership to achieve its financial goals through planning, measuring, analyzing and improving its business performance.
 

 This role drives financial success for the company and business units through assessment of strategic and business initiatives.  Key responsibilities include identifying strategic investment and partnership opportunities, developing data-driven insights and recommendations, creating and driving execution of business plans, and drafting & communicating presentations and business cases.  This is a very visible position with direct line of sight to the CEO, board of directors and other senior executives. The position reports to the Chief Financial Officer and has significant impact on the company’s performance and strategy.
 

Key responsibilities including leading a dedicated team and collaborate with eHealth’s business teams to drive all aspects of planning and performance management for eHealth. The role is responsible for all areas of financial planning & analysis, which includes developing financial and business plans, partnering with business leaders across the company, driving analyses for business & strategic issues and serving as the steward for eHealth’s financial P&L.  The role is also responsible for optimizing eHealth’s capital structure and investors to maximize shareholder value.
 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Partners with C-level executives as a trusted advisor to continually define and drive eHealth’s long-term financial strategy
• Build and lead a great financial planning and business analytics team
• Lead financial performance monitoring and improvement plans
• Work with senior leadership team in setting strategic direction for eHealth
• Provide key decision support for senior executives across all functional areas
• Lead preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual company financial performance reporting and analysis
• Lead weekly and monthly processes to provide performance analysis to eHealth’s management and other business teams
• Drive financial analyses to evaluate the company’s operational and strategic decisions
• Analyze the drivers and issues for business performance variances
• Direct ad hoc strategic, financial and operational analyses
• Lead annual planning and three-year financial strategic planning
• Lead financial forecasts throughout the year, monthly and quarterly
• Execute the process to continuously update financial pacing to assess the momentum of the business against forecast and against plan
• Maintain and communicate business risks/opportunities for eHealth
• Partner with eHealth management to identify and implement performance improvement initiatives throughout the company
• Collaborate with other eHealth strategy and analytics teams to collect input for forecast and to understand the drivers of the forecast
• Oversee financial analysis for strategic and business decisions with regards to new business models, strategic partnership agreements, etc.
• Collaborates and supports strategy and finance projects including strategic investments, capital markets / financing activities, investor relations and other ad-hoc projects.
   

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS degree in finance or business and technical related field with excellent academic record.  
• 12+ years of progressive roles in finance, strategic planning, investment banking, private equity, management consulting or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of successful experience in leading a finance or business planning function.
   

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced interpersonal and written communication skills to effectively develop relationships with stakeholders and work with senior management.
• Demonstrated strong leadership performance in prior management roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and team coaching & development.
• Track record of leading and collaborating cross-functionally to gain buy-in, support, and assistance from key stakeholders and organizations.
• Proven distinctive problem solving and strategic thought leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity.  Knowledge of ecommerce, digital marketing and internet platform technology sectors preferable.
• Healthcare industry experience is a plus but not required.
• Experience implementing Tableau or other business intelligence and analytics tools

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eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.

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