AVP Investor Relations

Posted:
7/25/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Workplace Type:
On-site

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Location: New York Metro Area

While this role has a flexible work schedule, based on business needs this position is required to be within driving distance to be on-site in our NYC office frequently for meetings and earnings calls.

Get to Know the Opportunity:

Investor Relations (IR) is a strategic function responsible for driving effective two-way communication between our VOYA management team, the company, shareholders, and the broader financial community.

As AVP of Investor Relations, you will play a critical role in supporting Voya’s Finance and IR function, reporting to the Head of Investor Relations. In this role you will work closely with the executive leadership team and communicate the company’s strategy, growth opportunities, and business initiatives in a way that creates clarity, consistency, and widespread understanding among investors and analysts.

Ideal candidates will be someone looking to build a career within a growing organization while looking to thrive in and be energized by a fast-paced, greatly dynamic, and high-visibility role. Candidates will also come from former investment and research analyst roles and/or will have direct in-house corporate investor relations experience within the financial sector. The candidate must be fluent in the capital markets and possess strong financial modeling skills. Leadership experience and financial communications experience is required.

The Contributions You'll Make:

  • Shape messaging across all external investor and financial communications, including quarterly earnings news releases and conference call scripts, investor presentations and discussions with the investment community. 
  • Co-lead the quarterly earnings process, including the development of key earnings materials and drive conversations with key internal stakeholders.
  • Maintain an overall IR strategy that prioritizes clear and effective communications with institutional investors and sell-side analysts.
  • Lead the creation of investor communications plans and goals, including development of both tactical and strategic elements to both utilize and manage against them. 
  • Manage ongoing investor and analyst activities, including earnings announcements, investor and industry conferences, investor bus tours, non-deal roadshows, and other events. Be comfortable in frequent contact with clients, including CEO, CFO, IRO, and other senior leaders. 
  • Interact directly with client shareholders and covering sell-side analysts, discussing client business attributes, collecting feedback, and reacting to investment community informational needs. 
  • Monitor and perform sell-side valuation models and analyses and provide guidance on effectively setting expectations around future performance. 
  • Monitor the competitive landscape to provide competitive intelligence and insights to the executive team.
  • Ensure junior staff is trained, supportive of team efforts and paying sufficient attention to detail. 
  • Help articulate the company’s strategy, financial results, growth opportunities, and business initiatives to current and potential shareholders and analysts.
  • Lead market research and competitive analysis as well as deliver market intelligence to key partners
  • Take a leading role in the development of investor communications materials for events such as quarterly earnings, non-deal roadshows, conferences, and investor days
  • Assist with articulating the firm’s ESG strategy and interact closely with business units to develop materials and insights in support of the overall Investor Relations strategy
  • Drive the adoption and test new technologies to rapidly improve the across the efficiencies across Investor Relations program through greater adoption of automation and AI

Minimum Knowledge & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in business/Finance/Accounting or equivalent work experience required. 
  • 8+ years of experience within the capital markets, including either with a sell-or buy-side firm (highly preferred), investor relations agency or in an IR role at a public company. Investor relations-specific or Wall Street experience a must for consideration. 
  • Experience in leading and managing coordination of Investor Days
  • Experience managing a high-performing team with proven track record of empowering and leading team to achieving results.
  • Proficient in financial modeling and in-depth financial analysis.
  • Excellent writing skills, including experience writing financial news releases and presentations.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills required, including ideating, strategizing, and pitching communications strategies.
  • Experience with relevant data platforms, including FactSet, AlphaSense, S&P/ IHS datasets as well as proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint. 
  • Results-oriented, proactive and self-motivated to anticipate upcoming client projects and deliverables. 
  • Ability to think critically and demonstrate good judgment. 
  • Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills
  • Innate desire to provide excellent service to clients and a mindset/practice of continuous improvement. 

Preferred Knowledge & Experience

  • CFA Designation

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$180,000 - $210,000

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

  • Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
  • 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
  • Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
  • Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)

Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

  • Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
  • Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
  • Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
  • Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
  • Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

Learn more about Critical Skills

Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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