This is a strategic and high-profile role that will influence and drive strategic decision making throughout the company. You have a passion for telling a story with numbers, evaluating underlying business trends, delivering real commercial insights and for driving change, accountability and scale. This role reports to the CFO and will work closely with the entire senior leadership team and all departments at ActiveCampaign.
What your day could consist of:
- Lead the company’s core financial processes including long-range and annual operating plans, periodic forecast updates and ongoing financial and key operating metric performance reporting for monthly executive Business Reviews and quarterly Board Meetings
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key business and functional leaders across the Company to ensure awareness of key business activities and performance trends as well as emerging opportunities and risks
- Partner with CFO to develop and own driver-based strategic planning model to facilitate decision making for key company initiatives, striking the right balance between model accuracy, flexibility and comprehensiveness
- Lead a high performing team with a focus on attracting, developing, and retaining top finance talent that can scale with company growth
- Ensure practical communication of complex financial concepts to various stakeholders across the Company to improve financial literacy and business decision making processes
- Responsible for enhancing and scaling the systems, processes, and internal controls to ensure financial discipline and the integrity of data
- Provide modeling and analytical support for ad-hoc strategic projects
What is needed:
- Working knowledge of SaaS business with payments is highly preferred
- Experience leading a FP&A organization of a fast-growing company that has experienced growth ideally north of $300M+ in revenues
- Proven experience in creating real-time reporting, forecasting, and actionable KPI’s, leveraging sophisticated financial systems and modeling
- Skilled in financial analysis, detail-oriented, and proficient in building and using complicated data sources, financial modeling, data analytics, and multi-year projections
- Strong problem-solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses from numerous sources
- Dynamic leader with a history of attracting, retaining, and developing top finance talent and effectively leading and scaling teams
- Experience with ERP and/or planning tool deployments preferred
- Prior experience working in private and public company environments; IPO experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
- Results-oriented with a strong work ethic. Must be tenacious, with the emotional intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches.
- Has the confidence and experience to constructively challenge assumptions, develop efficient processes, and drive fiscal accountability throughout the organization
- Ability to build credibility and rapport with executive team
- Carries themselves with confidence and speaks clearly and with conviction
- Collaborative work style; someone who can influence others and implement change and standardize processes.
- Analytical and metrics-driven, regular leveraging data to support business decisions
- Highest ethical standards, integrity, humility, authenticity, credibility, and character