Director, Product & Platform Central Finance

Position Overview

The Director of Product & Platform Central Finance will shape strategy and facilitate the continuous advancement of the product strategic finance function. This role will partner with the business for key deliverables and projects, collaborating with other product and platform finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistent industry and product level topline reporting, forecasting, root cause analytics to support timely performance insights and decision making.
• Create and provide consistent unit economics reporting and insights by industry and product.
• Develop and align on allocation principles and methodologies for product investments.
• Establish and evolve pricing and packaging analysis playbooks to support pricing and promotion decisions.
• Manage the product and platform finance calendar and consolidate across teams for world-class quality in planning outputs.
• Evolve the product hierarchy for internal and external reporting addressing both internal needs and investor expectations.
• Drive automation of all repeatable product and platform finance processes and represent product and platform finance for finance or cross-company automation initiatives.
• Support the development of financial models and evaluations for potential deals, including due diligence and integration.
• Centralize, standardize and automate headcount and spend processes, such as forecasting, closing, and spend analytics.
• Lead the team by designing organizational structure, capacity, and capabilities needed, attracting, retaining, and developing a team of top performing finance professionals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic finance roles, especially in financial planning & analysis, ideally at a large public software company.
• Proven experience in product and go-to-market/corporate FP&A.
• Proven experience in partnering with C-Level executives at large public companies.
• Experience in finance support of M&A deals.
• Experience in both SaaS and Consumption business planning, operating, reporting, and pricing & packaging.
• Strong accounting and financial planning process and systems leadership experience with a proven track record of excelling in high-performance, analytic, and data-driven cultures.
• Solution-driven, innovative, and creative mindset.
• Zero-defect and principles-first mindset.
• Modeling and analytical skills to be a role model for the team.
• Strong people leader with proven experience managing global teams and a demonstrated track record of building & elevating high performing teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills with a proven ability to work collaboratively & influence across all levels of leadership.
• Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time.