VP, Strategic Finance
About Us:
LogicMonitor is the leading fully automated, cloud-based infrastructure monitoring and observability platform for enterprise IT and managed service providers.
We love going to work and think you should too. We are customer-obsessed, work as one team, and strive to be better every day. By building trust with our customers we will remain agile in all situations to best serve their needs. These are our core values. So it's no surprise that we work hard and genuinely have fun working with each other as we expand our global presence and achieve record-breaking success.
This position can be remote, offering you the flexibility to work out of your home full-time. You'll have easy access to and support from your manager and frequent video meetings to keep you plugged into your team. If you are traveling to the area, we invite you to take advantage of our space if you would like to work in an office environment.
LogicMonitor is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees, where different backgrounds and perspectives are valued and encouraged - regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We encourage all people to come as they are.
We operate with integrity, esteem diversity, and treat each other fairly and with respect. We strive to find our own versions of personal and professional harmony through community building and holistic growth. We hear time and time again that our awesome people are a huge part of why LMers chose LogicMonitor, love their teams, and choose to stay.
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What You'll Do:
As the VP, Strategic Finance, your primary focus is on driving the company's total financial model to fruition via predictability & scalability. You will be measuring real time business and long-term performance, planning for a high growth and profitable future, and driving the finance team to develop and implement processes to support the needs of an evolving, enterprise-class business.
You’ll be in a position with high visibility to LogicMonitor executive leadership and will be directly reporting to the CFO. You will drive strategic business partnership with finance and executive leaders, ensuring the planning process and operational rigor are world class. You will oversee corporate FP&A, long term and short-term forecasting and planning, internal and external board and earnings process/reporting, along with finance analytics and KPI reporting. You will partner closely with the accounting organization to ensure all work outputs are in sync with our accounting practice. Having strong business acumen and attention to details is key.
You are empowered to lead, grow, and inspire a team of finance professionals while working across the broader team to enable and deliver on strategic and financial goals.
Here's a closer look at this key role:
It is key you have strong business partnering skills, conduct financial reporting, have powerful planning and modeling skills with superior business acumen & "organization savvy." The ability to understand the big picture of the company's financial model while being very detailed with the analysis of ARR, renewals, bookings, revenue, expenses and cash flows is critical.
- Be responsible for corporate finance, lead revenue, long-term and short-term forecasting and planning
- Collaborate with accounting and treasury to provide accurate cash flow forecasting
- Provide robust management reporting to the CFO and executive leadership team
- Ensure all work outputs from FP&A are in sync with accounting process
- Manage and develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting
- Drive financial strategy and financial analysis
- Provide strategic financial leadership and analytical support on go-to-market, product and business investments
- Bring a strategic lens and thought leadership to growth opportunities and scaling the business for sustainability
- Help advise and drive performance across the entire business in areas of top line growth and operating leverage
- Drive and assist in the monthly management reporting and quarterly board reporting process, as well as preparation for IPO process and future public company reporting
- Implement effective financial forecasting and management systems and ensure continuous improvement in our reporting and forecasting
- Manage and meet tight deadlines in a hyper-growth environment.
- Be open to the opportunity to expand the scope of role
- Lead a high performance FP&A team focused on the following:
- Conducting cost/benefit analyses to evaluate profitable growth initiatives and other strategic initiatives
- Identifying and recommend solutions for increased data quality and system functionality to enhance decision making
- Preparing ad-hoc special analyses for the senior leadership team including Board, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, etc.
- Leading the continued evolution the monthly forecasting process; highlight trends, risks and opportunities. Continuously identify areas to streamline and improve the financial planning processes and tools.
- Partnering with the Accounting team to implement and maintain dynamic forecasting of EBITDA and Net Working Capital via automated systems
- Partnering with the Accounting team on the monthly close process including comparison of actual results to forecast and identify any directional changes that may be necessary
- Performing functional financial or cost analyses (e.g. cash flow analysis, "what if" analysis) and prepare related reports (e.g. Pro-forma financial statements)
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related major (MBA preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in senior FP&A leadership position (director and above), including proven track record of building, leading and developing the FP&A function in both private and public companies
- 10+ years of experience working in hyper-growth environments preferably in SAAS company with Go-To-Market operations experience
- Proven track record of developing people, leading and managing high-performing teams
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience in cross-functional business partnering
- Forward-thinking, analytical and problem-solving mindset. Drawn to building off of ambiguous and unsolved problems and “making it happen”
- Ability to think big picture and roll up the sleeves to dive into details
- Strong understanding of SaaS business model and growth levers
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field
- MBA, Investment Banking or Private Equity Experience a plus, but not required
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