VP, Global Energy FP&A and Finance Business Partner

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

15

The Team

The Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Energy is a senior finance leader responsible for shaping the financial strategy, performance management agenda and decision support for S&P Global Energy. The role will serve as a trusted advisor to the Energy CFO and senior business leaders, translating business strategy into financial plans, challenging assumptions, and providing forward-looking insights that improve growth, profitability, investment discipline and execution.

This leader will own the division FP&A agenda across planning, forecasting, performance analysis and strategic financial planning, while building strong connectivity with Enterprise Finance & Strategy and other corporate partners. The VP will lead and develop a high-performing global team and create the financial transparency, operating rigor and analytical capability required to enable senior leaders to make informed decisions.

Responsibilities and Impact

• Enterprise FP&A Leadership & Financial Strategy
• Own the end-to-end FP&A agenda for S&P Global Energy, including annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, performance reviews and scenario analysis.
• Partner with the Energy CFO and senior leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable financial plans, performance targets and resource allocation choices.
• Shape the financial performance narrative for the division, identifying underlying business drivers, emerging risks and opportunities, and the actions required to improve outcomes.
• Provide an independent, enterprise-minded finance perspective, constructively challenging assumptions and ensuring decisions balance growth, profitability, investment requirements and long-term value creation.
• Lead financial risk and opportunity assessment and establish mechanisms to surface material performance issues early and drive accountability for corrective actions.
• Drive divisional M&A activities, including acquisitions, divestitures, winddowns, and internal business transfers.
• Drive transformation within the finance organization through the streamlining of workflows and the introduction of AI enabled processes.
• Executive Decision Support & Business Partnership
• Serve as a trusted strategic finance advisor to senior Energy leaders, bringing rigorous analysis and judgment to business strategy, portfolio choices, investments and operating decisions.
• Lead the preparation and delivery of decision-ready financial insights for executive forums, including Quarterly Finance and Business Reviews and other senior leadership reviews.
• Evaluate strategic business cases for organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including ROI, NPV, revenue potential, cost efficiencies, integration considerations and synergy opportunities.
• Partner across Product, Commercial, Strategy and other functions to assess growth opportunities, improve economic outcomes and strengthen linkage between business priorities and financial commitments.
• Conduct market, competitor and benchmarking analysis where relevant to inform strategy, performance expectations and investment choices.
• Revenue, Profitability & Performance Management
• Provide leadership and oversight of revenue and expense planning, forecasting and performance analysis across the Energy portfolio.
• Build a driver-based understanding of financial performance, connecting commercial and operating indicators to revenue, margin, expense and cash outcomes.
• Partner with business leaders to assess revenue performance and growth opportunities using relevant measures such as retention, wallet share, pricing, product mix and customer growth.
• Establish clear performance metrics, management dashboards and forward-looking analytics that improve transparency, forecast quality and accountability.
• Drive disciplined trade-off decisions across investments, productivity opportunities and cost actions to support sustainable financial performance.
• Workforce, Investment & Resource Allocation
• Lead financial oversight of Energy workforce planning, partnering with People and business leaders to align headcount, location strategy, capabilities and investment with strategic priorities.
• Establish next generation headcount analytics and insights across full time employees and 3rd party support
• Advise senior leadership on allocation and reallocation of resources across businesses, products and initiatives based on strategic importance, financial return and execution capacity.
• Provide financial leadership for major transformation, productivity and investment programs, establishing financial baselines, benefits tracking and clear accountability for outcomes.
• Operating Excellence, Controls & Transformation
• Strengthen FP&A operating rhythms, planning methodologies, management reporting and governance to improve speed, consistency and decision usefulness.
• Champion automation, advanced analytics, AI-enabled capabilities and modern planning tools to increase FP&A effectiveness and shift capacity toward higher-value insight and partnership.
• Partner closely with Controllers and other Finance teams to maintain strong financial governance, policy alignment, reporting integrity and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Create scalable processes and standards while retaining the flexibility required to support the differing economics and strategic priorities across the Energy portfolio.
• Team Leadership
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing, globally connected FP&A organization with strong commercial acumen, analytical rigor and executive-level business partnership capabilities.
• Set clear priorities and standards for the team, fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and an enterprise mindset.
• Develop finance talent and succession pipelines, creating opportunities for broader business exposure, capability building and career growth.
• Lead effectively across matrixed teams and stakeholders, creating alignment around priorities, roles and financial outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• Basic Required Qualifications
• 15+ years of progressive finance experience with substantial leadership responsibility across FP&A, strategic finance and business partnership in a large, complex organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field; MBA, CPA, CFA or other relevant advanced qualification preferred.
• Demonstrated success as a senior finance partner to C-suite and senior business executives, with the executive presence, judgment and credibility to influence strategy and challenge constructively.
• Deep expertise in planning, forecasting, performance management, financial modeling, scenario analysis, investment evaluation and executive reporting.
• Proven leadership of high-performing finance teams, including developing senior talent and leading effectively across global and matrixed structures.
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen with the ability to connect market and operating drivers to financial performance and translate complex analysis into clear recommendations.
• Experience supporting significant growth, transformation, productivity, portfolio or M&A-related decisions in a complex business environment.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to synthesize complex issues into concise, decision-oriented narratives for senior executives.
• Demonstrated ability to modernize FP&A through improved processes, data, analytics, automation and emerging technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in information services, data, analytics, subscription or other recurring-revenue businesses.
• Experience supporting a global portfolio with multiple products, customer segments and business models.
• Familiarity with modern enterprise planning, analytics and visualization platforms.
• What’s In It For You?
• Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.
• Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
• Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
• Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.