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The Senior Vice President (SVP), Finance is a critical enterprise leadership role with responsibility for both end-to-end financial operations, financial strategy, and enterprise financial stewardship. Reporting directly to the CFO, the SVP provides executive oversight of core finance functions while serving as a trusted advisor to the executive leadership team on enterprise strategy, performance, and resource allocation. The SVP is accountable for ensuring the strength, integrity, and scalability of financial operations—including planning, reporting, treasury, and controls, and analytics—while also playing a central role in enterprise financial decision-making, financial governance, and executive-level problem solving. With broad exposure to board engagement and external stakeholders, this role requires a leader who can seamlessly operate between operational rigor and strategic influence, shaping the enterprise financial narrative, elevating financial insight and discipline across the organization. The SVP is expected to bring an enterprise-wide perspective, sound judgment, and strong executive presence to advance the organization's long-term financial health and sustainability.
Responsibilities- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for all finance operations, including Procurement, Treasury, FP&A, and Accounting, ensuring strong and effective governance, controls, and performance management.
- Partner with the CFO and Executive Leadership Team to co-develop and execute the organization’s short- and long-term financial strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals, growth priorities, and transformation initiatives.
- Lead enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes, delivering clear, timely, and actionable insights to support decision-making.
- Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and transparency of financial reporting in compliance with GAAP, regulatory requirements, and internal control standards.
- Direct financial evaluation for strategic investments and growth opportunities, utilizing complex modeling, scenario analysis, and post-investment performance monitoring.
- Oversee treasury and cash management activities, including liquidity planning, investment strategies, debt management, and financial risk mitigation.
- Architect the enterprise financial narrative by connecting results, outlooks, and strategic trade-offs into a coherent story for executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
- Serve as the CFO’s principal delegate in executive and cross-functional settings, representing the finance function on all enterprise-level matters.
- Drive finance transformation initiatives, including process modernization, system optimization, and enhanced analytics to improve organizational agility and scalability.
- Lead and inspire a high-performing finance leadership team while fostering a culture of accountability, integrity, stewardship, and continuous improvement.
- 16+ years w/ Bachelor's degree; 10+ years supervisory
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, or CFA strongly preferred. 15+ years of progressive financial leadership experience, including senior executive responsibility across multiple finance disciplines (e.g., FP&A, Accounting, Treasury). Demonstrated experience partnering with C-suite leaders and presenting to Boards or governing committees on financial matters. Proven ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels within complex finance environments, with sound judgment, executive presence, and enterprise mindset. Experience leading finance functions through transformation, growth, or organizational change.
- Exceptional strategic, analytical, and financial acumen.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to build and lead executive-level teams.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information clearly to diverse audiences.
- Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
- High level of integrity, judgment, and accountability.
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 29. $294,415 - $471-064
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
Skills Required
- 16+ years of experience in finance
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field
- MBA, CPA, or CFA strongly preferred
- 10+ years supervisory experience
- Experience leading finance functions through transformation
Delta Dental Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Delta Dental Insurance Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Delta Dental Insurance Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, including a sizable automatic 401(k) contribution plus additional matching. This boosts overall total-rewards value even when base pay is viewed as only mid-market in some areas.
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Affordable Benefits — Core coverage is framed as unusually low-cost to employees, including fully employer-paid dental and vision and low employee contribution medical options. This creates meaningful take-home value beyond cash compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, including broad PTO/holidays and additional paid leave features such as parental leave. These policies increase perceived rewards and help balance workload demands.
Delta Dental Insurance Company Insights
What We Do
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people. Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
