[Hiring] Head of Finance @HealthX Partners

Role Description

We are seeking a Head of Finance who will lead Viya Health’s global finance function and team across 17 markets, owning financial planning and analysis, consolidated reporting, financial controls and audit readiness, cash, treasury and lender relationships, pricing and margin governance, and the finance operating model across global, regional and market levels.

Serves as the President’s key financial thought partner, delivering investor and funder reporting, advising on capital allocation, tax, market expansion, partnerships and investments, and overseeing the finance elements of Viya Health’s legal entity structure and its arrangements with the HealthX Partners group.

What You'll Do

• Lead Viya Health’s annual financial planning, budgeting, performance management, and commercial finance across all entities, markets, and business lines.
• Develop the annual budget, multi-year business plans and rolling forecasts, and run the monthly business review to drive corrective action on underperformance.
• Assess investment proposals for viability, risk, and budget impact, and build scenario models to inform growth, financing, and capital allocation decisions.
• Own pricing and margin governance, including cross-border consistency and exception approval, and track unit economics by brand, market and channel.
• Set up, maintain and strengthen Viya Health's financial policies, procedures and internal controls framework.
• Oversee the Controller's output and review and sign off on financial statements across Viya Health, ensuring multi-entity consolidation is accurate, timely and fit for Board and investor reporting.
• Ensure audit readiness throughout the year and lead the year-end audit process.
• Own the delegation of authority and ensure statutory, tax and regulatory compliance in every country Viya Health operates in, working with in market teams and local advisors.
• Own the finance systems roadmap (ERP, consolidation, planning and reporting tools) and the data that feeds Viya Health's KPIs.
• Manage and report on Viya Health's overall financial performance to the President and senior leadership, and produce the financial narrative for Board and investor/funder materials.
• Prepare and deliver all financial reporting required by investors and funders on schedule, including covenant compliance reporting and required financial disclosures; surface risks early so that no covenant breaches occur.
• Deliver the reporting required by the HealthX Partners group, including the finance elements of the group accountability framework, and restricted grant reporting to funders.
• Produce the quarterly MD&A report, ensure all transactions are recorded appropriately and that grant, impact investment and earned revenue streams are accurately reflected and aligned with financial performance.
• Own cash forecasting and liquidity across all Viya Health entities and currencies, including foreign exchange exposure and repatriation of funds, and maintain a rolling cash forecast.
• Manage banking and treasury, lender and investor relationships, and lead future capital raising, debt facilities and inventory financing as Viya Health scales.
• Set intercompany funding, transfer pricing and treasury policy across the group.
• Identify, monitor and work with markets and business lines to ensure key financial metrics are performing as planned.
• Identify risks to performance, opportunities to improve operational performance and manage business adaptation with market and business leads to address risks.
• Develop processes, tools and agreements that support business management, quality financial and business performance and oversight.
• Ensure that financial data is complete and accurate.
• Provide financial modelling, analysis and counsel to support strategic decisions, including capital allocation across markets and business lines, pricing for existing and new segments, and investment sequencing as Viya Health enters new geographies.
• Oversee tax management and ensure invoicing between entities and within markets is managed appropriately.
• Lead financial due diligence for new partnerships, grants or investment structures.
• Lead the finance side of Viya Health's legal entity and holding company structure, tax planning and any restructuring, and the finance workstream for new market entry, entity set-up and partnerships.
• Manage the finance team, including the Controller and Strategic Financial Analyst and the regional finance leads for Africa, Latin America and Asia.
• Develop the finance operating model and clear ownership and decision rights across global, regional, and market levels.
• Identify, develop, and lead capacity building across Viya Health.
• Partner with the Chief Operating Officer on sales and operations planning, inventory policy and working capital.
• 10-25% travel, primarily international.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field.
• Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) preferred.
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) desired.
• At least 10 years of related experience, including senior finance leadership experience in an international context is ideal.
• At least 5 years of supervisory experience.
• Experience building or rebuilding a finance function (team, controls, systems and operating model), ideally in a growth-stage company between $25 million and $150 million in revenue.
• Hands-on experience with debt facilities, covenant management and lender or investor reporting.
• Commercial experience with P&L Management, ownership of process improvements.
• Excellent financial and operational modeling skills.
• Excellent financial management and risk assessment skills.
• Experience recommending investment decisions, scenario analysis and senior leadership engagement.
• Experience in a tech, health, or consumer goods business operating across multiple markets/geographies with a service and sales function.
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency consolidated financial management; in-depth knowledge of emerging and developing markets (ideally Africa, Asia or Latin America) preferred.
• Comfortable with blended-finance structures; understands the difference between grant, impact investment, equity and earned revenue and can report credibly against all four.
• Prior experience with multi-entity structures, corporate restructuring or spin-out finance highly advantageous.
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems (Infor Lawson) and database warehousing or OLAP preferred.
• Expert Excel user, including pivot tables and advanced functions.
• Experience working within a group or holding company structure with shared services preferred.
• Fluent English required; Spanish or French is an asset.
• Genuine alignment with Viya Health's mission; understanding of the women's health access context in lower-middle-income markets is an asset.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that offers health, financial planning, family care, and flexibility for work life fit.
• Competitive leave package.
• Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
• Salary ranges for the position:
  • For the United States (paid in USD): $128,000 (minimum) - $160,000 (midpoint) - $192,000 (maximum)
  • For applicants applying outside of the US: Pay and benefits will be commensurate with the role and practices of the local office.

Company Description

Welcome to Viya Health! We are a global Femtech company with $40M revenue, building seamless women’s health journeys that connect digital platforms with offline care. With 200+ staff, 95% based in or from the Global South, Viya Health is built on a collection of diverse experiences and capabilities. This diversity is our unique strength.

Viya Health believes in women who don’t wait for permission. In quiet strength, loud laughter and choices made from the gut. We believe health should feel good. Not complicated, not clinical, never cold. That care should come to her, wherever she is, whenever she needs it. That progress is personal, and that possibility is power.