Senior Corporate FP&A Manager
Own company-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and board/investor reporting for a high-growth SaaS company. Deliver variance analysis, strategic insights, and process automation while partnering with the CFO and executive leadership.
About the job
What You'll Do
Lead Company-Wide Planning & Forecasting
- Own the corporate financial model, ensuring accuracy and agility in planning across revenue, headcount, expenses, and cash flow.
- Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting processes, aligning with executive and departmental stakeholders.
Board, Executive, and Investor Reporting
- Drive preparation of all board and investor reporting materials, including performance dashboards, KPIs, financial summaries, and scenario analyses.
- Provide clear, concise financial narratives that distill key insights and strategic implications for senior audiences.
Performance Management & BvA Analysis
- Deliver recurring and ad hoc budget vs. actual (BvA) analysis at both corporate and departmental levels.
- Partner with business leaders to understand drivers of variance and incorporate learnings into future planning cycles.
Operational Excellence & Automation
- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline planning and reporting processes, increasing accuracy, timeliness, and automation.
- Support system improvements across planning, reporting, and financial infrastructure (e.g., FP&A platforms, ERP integrations).
Business Partnership
- Serve as a thought partner to business leaders by providing actionable insights that drive growth, efficiency, and accountability.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships across GTM, R&D, People, and other key functions to ensure financial alignment with strategic goals.
What You Bring
- 5–7+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or private equity, preferably in a high-growth SaaS environment.
- Deep experience in corporate-level financial planning, budgeting, and reporting with demonstrated ability to manage complex models and large data sets.
- Strong command of Excel-based modeling and a solid understanding of SaaS financial metrics (e.g., ARR, NRR, CAC, CLTV, gross margin, retention).
- Proficiency in 3-statement modeling, scenario planning, and cash flow forecasting.
- Experience creating and presenting materials for executive and board audiences; ability to distill complex data into compelling, strategic insights.
- Strong working knowledge of GAAP accounting, ASC 606 / 340, and SaaS-specific revenue recognition principles.
- Excellent communication and business partnering skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive outcomes.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and balancing short-term execution with long-term strategic thinking.
Nice to Have
- Experience with modern finance tools such as Pigment and Netsuite.
- SQL or comfort navigating large datasets; understanding of data infrastructure and warehouse architecture is a plus (though not required—data support is available).
Skills
Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Excel, SaaS Metrics, 3-Statement Modeling, Scenario Planning, Cash Flow Forecasting, US GAAP, ASC 606, Investor Reporting, Pigment, NetSuite, SQL
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