CareerXperts Consulting
Location
Work from home | India
Job description
*Note - CA degree is mandatory for this role
Job Role -
This role requires a forward-thinking, proactive financial leader with a strong accounting background and a 'roll-up your sleeves', hands-on management style. You will be called upon to drive strategy for the business and concurrently be creating rigorous processes and systems that build a firm foundation for aggressive international growth. Critical for the role will be prior experience implementing and monitoring SaaS-based KPI's, as well as creating dashboards to enhance operational effectiveness in a growth focused enterprise.
• Lead our finance team to manage the day-to-day financial operations
• Work with external accounting firms and internal accounting staff to ensure timely and accurate bookkeeping and financial reporting of parent company and other subsidiaries
• Participate in and lead the provision of effective strategic financial planning, recommendation and information
• Track, analyze and prepare SaaS metrics such as MRR,ARR, Churn rate and etc.
• Manage accounting and financial systems and maintain full and accurate accounting records
• Produce monthly P&L and BS
• Prepare financial materials and communicate with existing and potential new investors
• Ensure compliance with financial, government and tax legislations, regulations and policies
• Create, maintain and present detailed operating plans for the business and partner with business stakeholders to create department budgets.
• Provide insightful analysis with regards to historical data and trends to support decision making and future business initiatives.
• Utilize data and metrics from across the company to understand the business as a whole and communicate this information proactively to the executive team as part of weekly/monthly business reviews.
• Partner with the HR Director to advise on compensation efforts, including equity, bonus and commission planning.
• Manage the monthly forecasting process for bookings, revenue, and expenses with exceptional organization and communication.
• Be the subject matter expert on KPIs and trends.
• Prepare data and analytics to present to the company and Board of Directors, and compile financial reports as needed.
• Identify additional needs on the team and lead hiring efforts while helping with overall org design and career pathing efforts.
• Oversee and manage the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Headcount Planning, Operating Plan and Modeling tools. Initially this will require an implementation of a new FP&A/Budgeting tool and processes
• Own Company Dashboard creation and iteration including cross-departmental coordination, especially amongst the Go-To-Market functions in the company (marketing, Sales, and Operations)
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, and expenses
• Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Supervision of a team across Analytics and Business Insights; Given the pace of company growth, this team will expand quickly over time
• Quarterly and Monthly Financial reports, Including Board and Senior Management reporting
• Implement and work with a Business Intelligence Tool and Dashboard reports
• Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies and understand ROI in across areas of spend
• Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes
• Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis and support for cross-functional projects
Candidate Requirements:
• 8+ years of finance experience most recently at the VP or Director level with strong roots in a hyper-growth start-up. SaaS industry experience is required.
• 3+ years of overseeing finance operations in a SaaS company with $2M+ in ARR
• CPA or CFA certification is preferred
• Familiarity with Quickbooks, Chargebee (or any Subscription Management Tool) is ideal.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to breakdown and communicate financial findings and results to a variety of audiences.
• Oversee and manage the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Headcount Planning, Operating Plan and Modeling tools. Initially this will require an implementation of a new FP&A/Budgeting tool and processes
• Own Company Dashboard creation and iteration including cross-departmental coordination, especially amongst the Go-To-Market functions in the company (marketing, Sales, and Operations)
• An inherent scrappiness. You have the ability to think strategically while also being able to jump into the weeds and get your hands dirty when needed.
• Excellent communication skills with experience influencing and educating cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong expertise as a team manager who can help with ongoing career pathing and coaching.
• Must thrive in a fast-paced, results driven, rapidly changing environment and effectively handle competing priorities
• Fund raising and M&A experience handing a Series B or Series C Fund Raise and above, of atleast $ 25 Million and above.
• Willing to have some evening meetings to communicate with global teams
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