Vice President, Finance

The Vice President of Finance ("VP") at Absolute Security is a key member of the Executive Team that drives our strategic planning, budgeting/forecasting processes and business analysis.  This role also assists in goal setting, through initiatives and OKR’s, supporting business development analysis and interacting directly with the Board of Directors.

 

Most important, the VP plays a key leadership role within the overall CFO organization partnering with the company’s executive leadership team around building our strategy, setting our direction, ensuring our financial health, demonstrating great business partnering skills and leading an international team.

 

The VP oversees the development of our long term financial plan and the annual budget, ensuring it is aligned with our business strategy and investment thesis.  They also own the Company’s financial forecasts and business planning as well as management reporting of historical results.  These rely on robust financial models derived from our management reporting data lake and reporting tools that are managed by this team.  The key outcome includes translating initiatives, cascading objectives and goals into meaningful SaaS metrics and KPIs; managing the FP&A team; optimization of SaaS and Private Equity management reporting, preparations for quarterly Board reporting, performing ad-hoc business analysis to identify ways to improve our operations and related corporate finance and financial analysis activities. 

 

The VP serves as a key business partner and interacts and coordinates with colleagues in Sales, Product Management, Engineering, HR, Marketing and IT to drive the planning, analysis and evaluation of business transactions, financial forecasts and long-term strategic planning initiatives for the Company.  This role will also drive the analysis and evaluation of the company’s operating results, SaaS metrics, business initiatives and opportunities, and strategic initiatives, as well as oversee the company’s capital allocations and various related returns-based investments and activities. 

 

The ideal candidate will be high-energy, intellectually curious, results-driven and assertive; they will also be collaborative and operate transparently. They will be resourceful and adaptable and will be someone who seeks-out opportunities to reach out to the business, build engagement and add value. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and will be capable of presenting to a wide variety of audiences. They will be a strong leader and people manager, capable of coaching and mentoring a team to achieve career goals and development. Success will also be driven by someone who has a passion for SaaS companies and growth, someone who has a drive to innovate and a strong comfort level to experiment and learn.