Confidential Looking for Vice President Finance at Denver, CO Full Time

This software business is looking for an experienced VP of Finance to steer a high-growth company through domestic/international expansion and beyond. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, the incumbent will guide the company in all financial matters, and work as a collaborative member of a cross-functional team to drive company results. Experience with capital formation, treasury, valuations, forecasting, senior financial management, and incentive compensation is required. This position reports to the CEO and has a direct career path to CFO as the company scales.

Responsible for driving capital efficiency while managing company-wide planning, budgeting, forecasting, and processes, the VP of Finance will interact with key stakeholders, including the company’s Board of Directors, its shareholders, financing partners, customers, vendors, and professional advisors, communicating constraints and challenging relevant assumptions. The role holder will lead dialogue to understand organizational pain points, review projects and goals, and ensure open communication while assessing current business performance to generate insights into growth, and effectively communicate business and financial results and opportunities to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team.

The VP of Finance will build and oversee all financial aspects of the company through a team of finance professionals. Working closely with the team, the VP of Finance will ensure that department managers are supported to budget, forecast, manage, and assess all areas of the business to facilitate informed decision-making. The role will ensure our planning and forecasting processes evolve and have a key eye toward the future.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a trusted member of the Senior Leadership team, and business partner to the CEO, Board, and Investors, supporting decision-making by providing meaningful financial analysis, transparency & insights
• Take a leading role in future capital rounds
• Collaborate with the CEO to lead conversations with the board and management related to performance and growth strategies and establishing yearly financial objectives that align with our plans for growth and expansion
• Create business cases to support commercial decision-making, including geographical expansion and potential new business launches
• Own KPI analysis (both financial and non-financial), generating meaningful insights to support business decision making
• Participate in setting incentive compensation plans that will drive managers and staff to achieve planned company results
• Build and oversee an end-to-end high-performing finance function, fit to support a fast-track domestic scale-up and expansion strategy
• Manage and lead the implementation of new finance processes, procedures, and systems to enhance the finance operation, organizational procedures, information flow, planning, and business processes
• Lead/support company-wide planning, strategy, and investor relations
• Oversee the company’s forward-looking financial model
• Identify opportunities for innovation and efficiency, and turn these insights into concrete outcomes that align with our strategy
• Own the regulatory reporting requirements, statutory accounts, and the relationship with audit and other advisory firms

Person Specification

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business, or Accounting
• Rapid-scale, VC-backed scaleup experience
• Experience as a Finance Director / VP Finance, ideally within a scaleup (Series A+)
• Recognized Finance Lead / Director, who is a strong business partner to the CEO/Founders
• Previous experience in M&A
• Led a finance function from a governance perspective
• Previous experience with raising capital/investor relations
• Consulting background (Bain, McKinsey, BCG) preferred
• Well-developed leadership skills, used to operating at a senior leadership level.
• Able to work at a strategic and operational level, seamlessly switching between the two depending on the business need.
• Analytical, mathematical, and data-driven in approach, with advanced data analysis skills.
• Experienced with building best-in-class finance functions, including people/systems/processes
• Strong people management skills, including advising, challenging, and influencing stakeholders (CEO, Founders, Board, Investors)
• Excellent relationship, coaching, and communication skills with employees at all levels.
• High degrees of initiative, self-motivation, and personal integrity, with a proven ability to deal professionally and effectively with confidential and sensitive information.
• Strong organization, planning, and project management skills; able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment of change
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Resilient, able to work under pressure, remaining professional and calm.
• A collaborative communicator who excels at fostering strong relationships. Outstanding communication (written, oral, presentation) skills with the ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal and external audiences, at varying levels of complexity and detail.

Pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101, the targeted range for this role will be $200,000 – $260,000 per annum. The compensation offered will be based on the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and experience.