Job Description

Role Description

The Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis is the senior finance executive responsible for leading global FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, finance business partnership, performance management, and investor reporting. Reporting to the CFO, this leader will serve as a strategic partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team, translating company complexity into actionable insights and driving operational accountability in support of growth, profitability, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes.
• Provide strategic finance leadership across company priorities, including growth, profitability, transformation, and long-term value creation.
• Lead executive-level discussions of financial results, forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans with the executive leadership team and investors.
• Own the investor reporting relationship for management reporting, forecasts, budgets, and strategic financial updates.
• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to support strategic planning, capital allocation, investment decisions, and business decision-making.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across the company to drive business performance, operating discipline, and accountability.
• Develop a team of strategic finance business partners who are deeply integrated throughout the business and add value aligned to functional and corporate priorities.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global FP&A organization, establishing the talent, structure, accountability, and operating cadence required to support a complex, scaling enterprise SaaS business.
• Drive modernization of business intelligence platforms, financial systems, and analytical frameworks to enable business insights, data-driven decision-making, and greater organizational transparency.
• Drive AI-enabled initiatives to improve scalability, accuracy, efficiency, and insight generation.
• Support M&A efforts end-to-end, including financial modeling, diligence, and integration across global teams and systems.

Qualifications

• 15 or more years of progressive finance experience, including senior-level FP&A leadership responsibilities.
• Experience in B2B enterprise SaaS or enterprise software environments, preferably within a global, scaling organization.
• Significant experience serving as an FP&A business partner to executive leaders and influencing strategic and operational decisions.
• Proven experience leading organizations of 15 or more professionals, including remote, offshore, or globally distributed teams.
• Very high SaaS business and associated metrics acumen.
• Experience supporting Go-to-Market teams and partnering with sales, marketing, customer success, and related commercial functions.
• Strong financial modeling, scenario planning, and analytical capabilities.
• Business systems transformation experience, including business intelligence and financial planning tools.
• M&A experience, including due diligence, financial modeling, and integration.
• Strong accounting foundation, including an understanding of software revenue recognition.
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives end-to-end, balance multiple priorities, and deliver results in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Track record of delivering actionable insights collaboratively to improve business performance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, or advanced degree preferred.

Leadership Attributes and Skills

• Operates as a strategic finance leader while remaining highly effective in tactical execution, day-to-day problem solving, and decision-making under uncertainty.
• Communicates with strong executive presence, distilling complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable insights for executive and operational audiences.
• Influences effectively across executive leadership and matrixed organizations, building alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Builds credibility and followership through sound judgment, transparency, accountability, and consistent execution.
• Brings a process-driven, innovative, and forward-looking mindset, with a practical approach to building scalable practices and leveraging technology, data, and new ways of working to improve outcomes.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits.
• 401(k) plan and company match.
• Paid vacation time and holidays.
• Well-living programs.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.

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