Senior Vice President Finance

SVP Finance Role (Confidential)

Title: Senior Vice President, Finance

Location: Eastern Time Zone (100% Remote) All North East Cities

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Finance & Value Creation

• Own and enhance the five-year strategic financial model, annual budget, and rolling forecast models aligned to the company’s SaaS strategy, commercial targets, and PE value-creation plan.
• Drive enterprise-level financial performance management including visibility into unit economics, cohort performance, CAC payback, LTV, and gross margin improvement.
• Own P&L, balance sheet, and cash management with particular focus on headcount costs (70% of total expenses) and software/technology spend, ensuring capital-efficient growth and disciplined resource allocation.

First 3-6 Months Priorities

• Enhance financial reporting and analytics to provide better business insights.
• Automate the budgeting process and improve integration between systems.
• Take ownership of the five-year strategic plan from the PE firm.
• Coordinate and elevate the finance function to relieve the COO of day-to-day financial oversight.
• Build out FP&A capabilities - systems and processes.

Qualifications

• 15-20+ years of progressive finance experience with 5+ years in a senior leadership role (VP/SVP Finance).
• Proven experience at companies with minimum $50M+ revenue scale, with complexity similar to company dual business model.
• Strong B2B SaaS experience required - must deeply understand subscription technology environments with recurring revenue models, not just general corporate finance.
• Demonstrated ownership of company-level FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting in a growth-stage or PE-backed business.
• Deep understanding of SaaS economics including ARR, NRR, churn/cohort analysis, CAC/LTV, gross margin levers, and revenue recognition for subscription products.
• Strong technical accounting foundation (US GAAP) with experience managing audits, tax (including international tax), controls, and compliance.
• Proven success building and scaling Finance organizations in the $50M–$100M+ revenue range.
• Experience partnering across HR, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, Operations; comfortable balancing growth and profitability trade-offs.
• Board-facing communication skills with demonstrated experience preparing investor materials and performance narratives for PE sponsors.
• Experience successfully navigating and integrating acquisitions from legal to financial perspectives.
• Prior experience in media, digital publishing, AdTech or MarTech is a strong plus but not required.
• MBA strongly preferred over CPA - business degree and strategic orientation valued over pure accounting background.

Personal Attributes

• Executive presence with demonstrated leadership capabilities - ready to step into CFO role when the company exits within the next few years.
• Strategic operator who can flex between executive-level strategy and analytical depth.
• Exceptional change management and systems implementation skills - able to modernize processes and drive adoption.
• Strong people leadership and development skills - able to manage challenging team dynamics, develop talent, and build high-performing teams.
• Low-ego, collaborative, and highly cross-functional; thrives in fast-moving, product-led environments.
• Bias for action, continuous improvement, and simplification.
• High integrity, sound judgment, and a commitment to transparency, accountability, and performance.
• Comfortable working with accountability-focused leadership and able to hold others accountable.