vp/finance

Community Financial Credit Union; Plymouth (MI); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Hybrid work model

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Community involvement

Job summary

orsa credit union seeks a strategic VP of Finance to lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, partnering with executives to align resources with the organization’s mission. You will own the annual budget, rolling forecasts, ALCO reporting, and scenario analyses, while developing forward-looking models and guiding budget owners to deliver accurate results.

This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and data-driven decision making to support growth and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting with driver-based models.
• Experience in a financial institution and familiarity with ALM, net worth, and regulatory measures.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting function as the CFO’s primary partner.
• Coordinate with accounting to align budget, forecast, and actual results with the general ledger.
• Provide advisory support to executive leadership and budget owners to clarify tradeoffs and decisions.
• Lead end-to-end budget development and rolling forecasts, and maintain forecasting models.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Strategic analysis

Leadership

ALM knowledge

Communication

Board presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

To create joy and ignite Michiganders’ Impossible Dreams.

Shared Commitments

At orsa, our commitments start with our purpose and are guided by our vibrantly lived values. We walk together toward strategic ends, galvanized by regenerative leadership and a growth orientation which moves us toward our human potential, so that we can support Michiganders in shaping the life they desire.

Role Purpose

The vp/finance leads orsa's financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions, translating strategic priorities into executable financial plans. In collaboration with leadership, this position owns the annual budget, rolling forecasts, long-range financial planning, and scenario analysis that inform strategic, ALCO, and board decisions. The vp/finance develops forward-looking financial models to assess potential outcomes and resource requirements. Additionally, this position provides guidance to budget owners to ensure accurate resource allocation and adherence to financial targets.

This position has a minimum salary of$160,800, but your offer amount may be increased with relevant work experience and transferable skills.

Primary Responsibilities

As an impact-driven team, our work is collaborative and dynamic. This role, like all positions at orsa, will be counted on to perform a variety of tasks as directed by leadership. Some of the core deliverables for this role are:

Role-Specific Contributions

• Own the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting function for orsa, serving as the chief financial officer's primary partner on the forward-looking financial picture.
• Partner with the svp/accounting to keep budget, forecast, and actual results connected, consistent, and reconcilable to the general ledger.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership and budget owners, bringing clarity to tradeoffs before decisions are made.
• Fulfill other responsibilities as needs evolve.

Budget Development & Stewardship

• Lead the annual operating and capital budget process end to end, including the planning calendar, key assumptions, departmental submissions, consolidation, executive review, and board approval.
• Partner with budget owners across the organization to build plans grounded in strategic priorities, and coach them to own their numbers throughout the year.
• Deliver monthly budget-to-actual variance analysis with clear commentary on drivers, risks, and recommended actions.
• Track capital expenditures against plan and support the evaluation and approval of capital projects.
• Build and maintain orsa's financial forecasting model, including loan and deposit growth, yields and cost of funds, non-interest income, operating expense, and credit loss provisioning inputs in coordination with accounting.
• Produce rolling forecasts and periodic reforecasts of the balance sheet, income statement, and net worth position.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for rate environments, growth assumptions, economic conditions, and major strategic initiatives.
• Lead the multi-year financial plan that supports orsa's strategic plan and its 2036 vision.
• Prepare business cases and return-on-investment analyses for new products, locations, partnerships, and initiatives, and follow up on realized results after launch.

Balance Sheet & ALM Support

• Provide forecast inputs, assumptions, and analysis to ALCO in partnership with the chief financial officer, including liquidity, net interest margin, and net worth projections.
• Monitor key performance ratios such as ROA, net interest margin, efficiency ratio, and net worth ratio against plan, and surface emerging risks early.
• Financial Insights & Reporting
• Prepare the monthly and quarterly financial performance package for executive leadership and the Board of Directors, translating results into insight and action.
• Design dashboards and reporting tools that give budget owners timely, self-service visibility into their performance.
• Maintain documentation and controls over budgeting and forecasting models, and support internal audit, external audit, and NCUA examination requests related to planning and capital.
• Lead, coach, and develop the financial analyst, setting clear expectations and creating stretch opportunities that build analytical and advisory capability.
• Build a culture of accountability for current commitments while supporting the team member-led development journey toward future destinations.

Qualification and Competency Requirements

As an organization focused on creating belonging, we appreciate that outstanding team members have different roads to excellence. Therefore, we don’t compromise on capability but are capability but use qualifications as guidelines. Typically, we’d expect a great vp/finance to have built capabilities through experiences that would include a minimum of:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Work Experience: Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, budget, and forecasting, including building driver based financial models and presenting financial insights to executive leadership.
• Industry Experience: Experience within a financial institution, with working knowledge of balance sheet dynamics, ALM concepts, and regulatory capital measures.

Preferred Qualifications and/or Competencies

• Education: Master's degree in business administration, finance, or a related field.
• Work Experience: People leadership experience; experience presenting to a Board of Directors or board committee; experience implementing or administering budgeting and planning software.
• Industry Experience: Credit union experience, including familiarity with NCUA Call Report and net worth requirements.
• Professional Credentials and/or Certifications: CPA, CFA, or FP&A certification.

The outcome of experience is our priority, so proficiency will be evaluated over means of acquiring it. Necessary competencies include:

Leadership

• Core Adaptive Capabilities: Reads patterns across growth, rate, and expense trends to see where the plan is likely to break before it does, and rethinks the forecasting approach when historical relationships stop holding.
• Human-Centered Leadership: Makes the budget process a coaching conversation rather than a compliance exercise, and grows the financial analyst through genuine ownership of meaningful analysis.
• Strategic Thinking & Innovation: Connects the long-range financial plan to orsa's 2036 vision, using scenario models to show leadership what bold strategic bets would take to fund and sustain.
• Execution in Ambiguity: Delivers a credible forecast and clear recommendation when the rate environment, member behavior, or strategic direction is genuinely uncertain, naming assumptions openly and reforecasting quickly as conditions shift.
• Technology & Data Fluency: Builds and governs planning models and tools that are transparent, auditable, and skeptically tested, moving orsa's financial planning toward durable, scalable infrastructure.

Functional

• Financial Acumen & Budget Stewardship: Owns orsa's enterprise budget and forecast, structuring financial plans for situations with no historical baseline and coaching budget owners across the organization to make tradeoffs with the same rigor.
• Asset/Liability Management (ALM): Diagnoses what the forecast signals for net interest margin, liquidity, and net worth when it isn't obvious from standard reports, and builds the analysis the cfo and ALCO need to act.
• Communication & Storytelling: Turns financial results, variances, and forecasts into narratives that executive leadership, the board, and budget owners understand and act on, especially when the message is unwelcome.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Designs how finance partners with accounting and with budget owners across orsa, building a new peer partnership with the svp/accounting where the handoffs are still being defined.
• Project Management: Runs the annual budget and long-range planning cycles as complex, multi-stakeholder projects against firm calendars, coordinating many contributors and flagging risk to timelines early.

Work Model and Conditions:

Hybrid

This position works in-office where working conditions, lighting, temperature, audio, and workspace are all sufficient. This position also works from home, where an appropriate work environment is required. Work requires the ability to constantly operate a computer and the ability to read, type, and communicate. Work may require the ability to move work-related supplies weighing up to 10-15 pounds.

The hybrid classification provides the opportunity to flex with purpose, empowering team members to work in locations best suited for work and life. In that spirit, those in a hybrid role are encouraged to maintain a commutable proximity to their primary work location because:

• The organization expects hybrid team members to attend certain meetings in person
• Managers may require onsite work to support outcomes
• Work model classification is subject to change

As a team member of orsa, you’ll enjoy:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Generous paid time off package for all full-time team members
• Up to 12-weeks paid paternity/maternity leave
• Lifestyle Accounts to help with your personal wellbeing
• Family Health Benefits
• Paid time off to observe all Federal Holidays
• Flexible work options depending on position
• Numerous employee engagement activities
• Community Resource Groups
• Paid time off for occasions such as volunteering, caregiving, and family events

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:

orsa credit union is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V). We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable Federal, State or local laws.

Disclaimer:

This job posting highlights some of the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the position. There may be additional duties and responsibilities that are not listed above. A Talent Acquisition Specialist will be sure to discuss the role in further detail should your application be selected to move forward.

Please note that orsa credit union does not involve Artificial Intelligence (AI) when evaluating applications. Applications for this position are reviewed by a member within the Talent Acquisition team. We are dedicated to providing an equitable and thorough review of all submissions and look forward to additional connection as the recruitment process continues!