Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis
About the role
Accruent is seeking a Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead a critical finance function supporting enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, performance management, and executive decision support. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this leader will oversee Accruent’s global FP&A team as well as Revenue Operations and Sales Incentive Administration, providing financial rigor, commercial insight, and operating discipline across the business.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Accruent’s global FP&A function, including annual operating plans, long-range planning, monthly and quarterly forecasting, financial modeling, management reporting, and performance analysis.
Drive a disciplined planning cadence that enables timely visibility into revenue, margin, expense, cash flow, headcount, productivity, and investment performance.
Partner with the CFO and executive leadership team to evaluate business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions that improve financial outcomes.
Develop and continuously improve forecasting models, reporting frameworks, KPI dashboards, and executive-level financial insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.
Lead variance analysis, scenario planning, resource allocation reviews, and business case development for strategic initiatives, organizational investments, and productivity opportunities.
Executive Finance Partnership
Lead, coach, and develop a team of finance partners who support Accruent’s L1 executive leaders and their organizations.
Ensure each function has strong financial partnership, clear budget ownership, timely performance visibility, and practical insights to guide decisions.
Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders by translating financial data into operational implications, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
Support executive operating reviews, business reviews, board-related materials, and Fortive reporting requirements with clear, accurate, and decision-oriented analysis.
Strengthen financial accountability across the organization by improving budget discipline, investment governance, and visibility into ROI.
Revenue Operations, Commercial Analytics & Data Governance
Lead Revenue Operations capabilities focused on commercial reporting, analytics, pipeline visibility, forecast support, and sales productivity insights.
Partner with Commercial, Finance, Business Transformation, and Systems teams to improve forecasting accuracy, pipeline management, commercial operating rhythms, and data quality.
Own governance for commercial data used in forecasting, pipeline analysis, bookings reporting, sales incentive processes, and executive decision-making.
Drive scalable reporting and analytics that support sales leadership, revenue planning, territory and quota analysis, bookings performance, and commercial productivity.
Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve commercial reporting processes while strengthening confidence in the underlying data.
Sales Incentive Administration & Plan Design
Support the Sales Incentive Administration team responsible for calculating sales incentive commissions and administering plan designs for commercial team members across Accruent.
Ensure incentive calculations are accurate, timely, well-controlled, and aligned to approved plan designs, commercial priorities, and compensation governance requirements.
Partner with Sales, Finance, HR, Legal, and Revenue Ops on sales incentive design, annual plan changes, policy interpretation, exception management, and communication readiness.
Establish strong controls, documentation, auditability, and issue-resolution processes for incentive administration.
Use incentive performance data to inform plan effectiveness, selling behavior, forecast quality, and commercial productivity opportunities.
Leadership, Talent & Operating Discipline
Create, lead, and develop a high-performing global team across FP&A, Revenue Operations, and Sales Incentive Administration.
Create clear priorities, operating rhythms, performance expectations, and development plans that strengthen service levels and business partnership.
Model a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, data integrity, collaboration, and execution excellence.
Apply process discipline and continuous improvement tools to simplify planning, reporting, forecast, and incentive administration processes.
Partner effectively across a global, matrixed organization and influence outcomes through strong business acumen, credibility, and executive presence.