Vp, Financial Planning & Analysis

Attentive Attentive · Enterprise · United States · Finance

This role is for a VP of Financial Planning & Analysis at Attentive, an AI marketing platform company. The VP will lead the FP&A team, responsible for financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business partnering. The role involves developing financial models, analyzing performance, managing resources, and providing financial insights to drive growth and operational leverage. Experience in high-growth SaaS/Enterprise Software is desired, with a focus on financial and operational excellence, and strong communication skills for presenting to stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the long-range and annual financial planning processes in order to achieve the full potential of the business and maximize long-term value. This includes the development of driver-based financial and operating models, supporting systems, tools, and data sources
  2. Produce timely, accurate, and actionable analyses, reports, and forecasts. Highlight key performance indicators and drivers of change within the financial results. Review insights with management to enable appropriate business adjustments as needed and comfortable giving guidance to the street
  3. Manage and prioritize requests for resources and investments. Evaluate and recommend based on return on investment analysis. Track and review actual performance to ensure achievement of business case
  4. Partner with business leaders and key stakeholders across the organization to provide pragmatic financial insights and recommendations in order to drive bookings and revenue growth while scaling the business to increase operating leverage and cash flow
  5. Distill complex analyses into concise, actionable outputs and present to both external and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • FP&A leadership
  • operational modeling
  • technical knowledge of financial statements
  • driver-based modeling
  • reporting techniques
  • Enterprise SaaS models
  • high-growth SaaS/Enterprise Software experience
  • FP&A leadership experience or relevant financial leadership experience within a successful and growing $200M+ company
  • Public Market experience and/or experience helping guide a company through the initial public offering process or public market readiness
  • Experience and/or ability to work in a high growth and fast-paced environment
  • building and implementing scalable financial processes and forecasts
  • strong operational finance grounding
  • built, installed and continuously improved systems and teams that support a high-growth, scalable, an accurate finance capability
  • Strong Communicator & Presenter
  • Strategic Thinking

Nice to have

  • understanding of marketing software in a SaaS model is preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • FP&A Expertise
  • High-Growth Experience
  • Financial and Operational Excellence