Finance Director, Investor Relations

The Finance Director (Investor Relations) will direct development and implementation of the company’s investor relations strategy, effectively communicating the company’s strategy, long-term growth opportunity, and overall financial performance and outlook to the investment community. This role will lead development of supporting analysis, presentations, reporting and disclosures aligned with investor relations strategy and will report to the Vice President of Finance.

In The Role Of Finance Director (Investor Relations), You Will:

• Partner with VP Finance and IDEXX executive team to develop investor messaging, formal presentation materials and earnings materials.   
• Lead preparation of quarterly financial earnings press releases, earnings call prepared commentary and remarks, supplemental earnings materials (‘Earnings Snapshot’) and supporting Q&A materials for the investment community.
• Lead development presentations and supporting Q&A materials for IDEXX participation in investor conferences, non-deal road shows (NDRs), meetings, and our annual Investor Day.
• Support investor decision-making processes through sell side conferences, non-deal roadshows, visits to institutions, individual meetings, visits by analysts and investors to company facilities and visits with appropriate other senior leaders.
• Provide outside-in perspectives to Senior Leadership through sourcing and analyzing industry, competitor and valuation information and perspectives from the investment community.
• Ensure timely and regular engagement with sell-side coverage analysts, significant IDEXX institutional shareholders, and investor targets.
• Oversee responses to inquiries from analysts, individuals and institutional shareholders and ensure maintenance of investor correspondence in iPreo contact database.
• Manage monitoring of sell-side reports and estimates and maintenance of consensus earnings tracking model; distribute reports to leadership team as needed.
• Manage development of quarterly shareholder ownership reporting and quarterly investor relations communications summary.
• Manage monitoring of ESG scorecards and engage with ratings firms to ensure scorecards accurately reflect IDEXX’s public disclosures.
• Partner with Corporate Responsibility and Legal teams on development and publication of IDEXX’s Corporate Social Responsibility report and annual Proxy report.
• Oversee process for pre-clearance of IDEXX employees seeking to speak or post content externally (press releases, Linked-in posts, speaker presentations) for alignment with key investor messaging and prevent disclosure on material, non-public information.
• Support other ad hoc projects as assigned.

What You Need To Succeed:

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• MBA/CFA designation or other advanced degree(s) a plus but not required.

Required Skills & Ability:

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Strong executive presence and ability to interact with highly knowledgeable. internal/external stakeholders, multiple levels of management, and various functional departments.
• Ability to quickly learn and communicate IDEXX’s sector opportunity, business strategy, business areas and product set, execution drivers, and long-range financial potential.
• Strategic thinking and planning ability to develop and execute investor communications strategy.
• Ability to work in a collaborative manner across multiple business units.
• Excellent organizational skills and detail orientated.
• Integrity, authenticity, respect, and confidentiality.
• Drive, initiative and breakthrough thinking ability.
• Reasoning and analytical skills to resolve issues.
• Personal computer skills, including ability to develop visually compelling and clear presentation content.
• Thorough understanding of Regulation Fair Disclosure and other regulatory requirement.

Why IDEXX?

IDEXX isn’t your typical S&P 500 company:  We’re approximately 11,000 people, doing business in more than 175 countries, focused on enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people and livestock. At the intersection of world-class diagnostics and cutting-edge software innovation, IDEXX and our global software business are transforming how veterinarians engage with technology.  Backed by a track record of success in animal health diagnostics, IDEXX has built an extraordinary and expanding software solutions business, and this role is at the heart of it.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement. 
  
Let’s pursue what matters together.  

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.  

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.

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