Passport Looking for Director, Finance at Charlotte, NC Full Time

About the Role:

As Director of Finance at Passport, you will be a key leader on our finance team, having responsibilities across the tactical and strategic financial areas of the business.

You will lead and inspire the finance team as part of building a best-in-class finance organization with particular emphasis on rebuilding analytics, financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting. You will own the company’s financial model, financial reporting and forecast/budget process for our complex and growing business. You will have the opportunity to build comprehensive, accurate and reliable monthly forecasts and annual budgets as part of managing the company financial model.

Finance’s reporting and analysis of our monthly results is vital for informing our business leaders and stakeholders with accurate and reliable information for decision making. You will be focused on quality, speed, and accuracy in modeling, and you’ll juggle multiple initiatives while partnering with stakeholders across the business.

Tactically, you will own the company financial model and will be responsible for creating and interpreting reports that provide departmental level results versus our budgets, operational KPI data as well as supporting the development of leadership and board presentations. In everything you do, you will find opportunities to simplify and scale the finance function to support our rapidly growing business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all company financial modeling efforts to build, maintain and continually improve short and long-term financial models, including maintaining a detailed three-statement interactive company forecast model
• Working across the finance team to ensure actual results, assumptions and analytics align within the full finance operation and proactively fixing any issues
• Leveraging knowledge of GAAP accounting and financial processes to fully own the financial planning and reporting process for our complex business
• Communicating and collaborating regularly with key stakeholders across the business, and ensuring they are knowledgeable about the financial impact of business decision making
• Thinking like a business leader to build a data-driven, analytical system — understanding the business levers, revenue drivers, costs, and excellence in collaborating with business leaders is an important component of success in the role
• Monitoring overall financial health with balance sheet management, cash flow & liquidity
• Owning the monthly budget vs. actuals reporting process, with an emphasis on analytics to determine key drivers of results leading toward better business decisions
• Building financial models & analytical tools that can scale as our business grows, continually optimizing and course-correcting to keep us on track
• Keeping up with our rapidly growing business (acquisitions, partnerships) and regularly staying ahead to ensure business leaders are thinking about the right things to drive the right growth
• Leading other ad-hoc financial analysis and business projects, as needed

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

Required

• 10+ years in corporate finance with hands-on results to drive financial modeling, financial analytics, month end close reporting and budgeting processes
• Direct experience in prior roles building and automating finance functions and processes.
• Proven ability to be flexible and work hard both independently and across teams
• Experience in a finance team operating in a dynamic, complex and fast-paced environment
• Significant experience with dynamic Excel modeling, including building, improving, and maintaining financial models of a growing business
• Building out monthly reporting packages, including leadership / board deck presentations, developing and leveraging KPIs to provide key business insights
• Solid understanding of GAAP, including key areas like revenue recognition, expense deferrals, debt and equity accounting
• Working across multiple teams and with different levels of leaders, leading modeling, analysis and making recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Excellent organizational and communication (written, verbal, and listening) skills
• Keen attention to details and a downstream understanding of their impact

Preferred

• Finance experience in a high growth software and payments company coupled with experience in a mature business’s finance organization
• Comfort with the collaborative Google suite of products (Sheets, Docs, Drive, etc.)
• MBA or CPA

About You:

You are a well-rounded business leader and the go-to person for financial analysis by providing a flexible and innovative problem-solving mindset. You have a solid grasp of the finance continuum – from the financial close process to the business analysis that evolves from that. You leverage your knowledge of GAAP and other financial concepts to proactively identify areas for investigation and to solve problems when they are found. You are an Excel ninja–you simplify complex concepts with dynamic, scalable models. You have an uncanny ability to draw out the key metrics needed for critical business decision making. People enjoy working with you, your team respects you, and you can bring clarity and value from a large amount of data. Teammates proactively come to you as a thought partner and seek out your perspective regularly. You have no problem rolling up your sleeves, digging into tactical initiatives and processes, and asking if there is a better way to do what we do to drive results for the company.

You are someone who thrives in a rapidly growing, rapidly changing organization, and you bring teammates along with you on that journey. You are always thinking a few steps ahead. You can multitask between complex projects while also fighting daily fires. You listen, collaborate, take note of alternate viewpoints, and implement the best solutions. You can balance short and long-term objectives and always hit your deadlines. You can communicate with the best by being clear and concise, and by listening. You are passionate about technology and immerse yourself in the culture and excited to contribute to Passport’s amazing growth goals.

About Us:

Passport is transforming mobility management for cities, empowering them to create more livable and equitable communities. Passport’s mobility platform enables clients to digitally coordinate all modes of transportation and implement real-time, data-centric management of their curbside and streetspace through its enterprise software. Trusted by nearly 1,000 cities, and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, and Miami, Passport is one of the fastest growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists. Passport is backed by Rho Capital Partners, H.I.G. Growth Partners, ThornTree Capital Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, MK Capital, and Relevance Capital. For more information, visit passportinc.com.

Passport provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.