Zearch Looking for VP FP&A – Leading Pre-IPO SaaS Company at Boston, MA Full Time

Zearch are working with a leading global B2B SaaS/Enterprise Software vendor and hiring for a new VP FP&A, reporting directly to the CFO. This person will provide leadership and oversight of all financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes on a global basis.

Responsibilities

• Own budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes globally.
• Communicate overall budgeting and forecasting strategy; developing budgeting and forecasting calendars
• Assess budgeting tools and processes
• Leverage budget applications and analytics tools used to forecast.
• Collaborate with executive leadership team on key metrics and updates to project budgets.
• Manage and oversee the preparation of consolidated financial statements, create, and manage combined and consolidated internal reports, oversee ad-hoc reports, and track corporate matters and information from business units.
• Partner with the CFO/C-Suite in preparing presentations for all stakeholders, executive management, and external constituents.
• Work with the CFO to develop annual and long-term financial forecasts/business plans including capital planning and financing.
• Drive planning and business intelligence systems to report on key business drivers.
• Improve and implement process and systems usage for budgeting and forecasting across all aspects of development business; implement process of sharing updates and reports with key stakeholders.
• Oversee creation of detailed corporate cash flow management reports, develop consistent budgeting and forecasting approach, develop metrics, targets, KPI’s and reports, evaluation of results against forecasts.
• Produce detailed corporate cash flow management reports, work with asset management to provide operating forecasts, and verify that all loans are compliant with debt ratio requirements looking forward.
• Analyze ROI to improve capital allocation and monetization strategies.
• Drive planning and business intelligence systems to report on key business drivers.
• Participate in monthly internal review of development project budgets.

Qualifications

• Degree in related field (finance, accounting, economics, or business).
• 10+ years of experience in FP&A and related areas ideally in the SaaS/Enterprise Software world.
• 2+ years as a VP FP&A with at least 7 years of people management
• Demonstrated experience as a team leader with a player-coach mentality. Ability to successfully manage a team of 4 + finance professionals.
• Experience in leading budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes (for a project development company is a plus).
• Preferred experience in renewable energy, utility/IPP, corporate energy services, banking and/or financial & capital markets industries.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP/UK GAAP
• Experience working with SAP software.

If you want to join a leading high growth SaaS / Enterprise Software company and lead Financial planning and analysis on a global basis please get in touch now!