How to deal with a micromanaging VP

The new VP at my job is the absolute worst. He has no domain knowledge and regularly embarrasses himself showing how little he knows about finance in general, and generally has no idea what he’s doing on most things and takes credit on the juniors work to suck up to the partners. Because he can’t take ownership on difficult projects, he spearheads all the menial, operational work that is extremely boring and time consuming, and has already made multiple reoccurring tasks that used to take 5 minutes become entire sprints that must be checked up the chain. Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with a lack of knowledge - my coverage is quite niche and most people need time to learn - but the constant follow ups, updates, and nonsensical asks have filled me with dread every time I see a ping from them. I get probably around 7 emails a day asking me to save down files that I’ve already saved down. Worst of all, they are always on their high horse about never assigning fake work and how he doesn’t want to treat us like bankers. 

Pretty much the entire junior team has had this experience, and I’m honestly quite close to snapping.