VP of Finance

The Opportunity

SE Ranking is a profitable, global SaaS company helping businesses, agencies, and marketing teams improve their visibility across Search, AI Search, and Social. We are seeking a VP Finance to join our leadership team and become the CEO’s partner on financial planning, business performance, capital allocation, long-term value creation, and leadership of the company’s Finance and Legal functions.

We are looking for a finance leader who can help shape company strategy, improve decision-making, strengthen planning and forecasting, and build the financial capabilities required for our next stage of growth. This is the senior finance leadership role at SE Ranking. The successful candidate will lead the Finance function, serve as a key member of the leadership team, and help build the capabilities, team, and operating discipline required to support a significantly larger and more complex business.

This role is not about maintaining the status quo. It is about helping leadership answer questions such as:

• Where should we invest for the highest long-term return?
• How should we balance growth and profitability?
• How do we allocate resources across products, markets, and initiatives?
• What financial outcomes should we expect from major business decisions?
• How do we build a company capable of operating successfully at significantly greater scale?

What You’ll Own

• Business Performance, Planning & Decision Support
• Partner with the CEO, Board, and leadership team on long-term value creation
• Build multi-year financial plans, forecasts, and scenario models to support growth, profitability, and investment decisions
• Support long-term planning, capital allocation decisions, and evaluation of future growth opportunities
• Help leadership evaluate pricing, retention, expansion, product investments, and resource allocation decisions
• Analyze growth investments, efficiency initiatives, and business trade-offs
• Improve visibility into business performance through SaaS metrics, forecasting, and operating reviews
• Drive planning processes across revenue, headcount, operating expenses, profitability, and resource allocation
• Turn financial and operational data into actionable insights that improve decision-making across the business
• Executive, Board & Stakeholder Partnership
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to the CEO, Board, lenders, investors, auditors, and other external stakeholders
• Develop board-quality reporting and financial storytelling
• Provide leadership with clear, actionable insights into business performance and financial outcomes
• Build confidence and credibility around the company’s planning, reporting, and decision-making capabilities
• Support financing, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and other corporate development opportunities as they arise
• Help ensure the company maintains the reporting quality, governance, and operational readiness expected by increasingly sophisticated stakeholders
• Finance & Legal Leadership
• Build and lead high-performing Finance and Legal organizations capable of supporting the company through its next stage of growth and increasing operational complexity
• Build, develop, and retain strong teams across Finance and Legal, creating a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Provide leadership and direction across accounting, financial operations, planning, reporting, legal, governance, and business partnership functions
• Create the operating cadence, accountability, and management processes required for high-performing Finance and Legal teams
• Build the finance foundation required for SE Ranking’s next stage, including GAAP-quality reporting, audit readiness, close cadence, multi-entity consolidation, revenue recognition discipline, controls, and scalable finance systems
• Lead the modernization of finance systems and infrastructure, including the transition from QuickBooks to NetSuite or an equivalent ERP platform
• Ensure strong governance, compliance, risk management, and operational discipline across the organization
• Establish the financial capabilities, reporting discipline, and operational rigor expected of a category-leading SaaS company
• Ensure the Finance and Legal functions can support a significantly larger and more complex business than we are today

What We’re Looking For

• Required
• Experience leading finance within a SaaS business, ideally between $20M and $100M ARR
• Strong background across FP&A, business performance, financial leadership, and finance operations
• Proven experience building or materially upgrading a finance function
• Deep understanding of SaaS metrics, recurring revenue models, forecasting, unit economics, and capital allocation
• Experience developing multi-year operating plans and supporting executive decision-making
• Ability to connect company strategy with financial outcomes and operational execution
• Experience partnering with CEOs, leadership teams, Boards, lenders, investors, or private equity stakeholders
• Strong executive presence and communication skills
• Ability to operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on builder
• Experience leading teams and developing future leaders
• Experience working in multi-entity, international environments
• Comfortable operating in a remote-first, globally distributed organization
• PREFERRED
• CPA or equivalent professional qualification
• Experience in PE-backed, VC-backed, or founder-led SaaS businesses
• Experience with audit readiness, financial governance, and finance transformation initiatives
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, financing activities, or strategic transactions
• Experience scaling finance organizations through periods of rapid growth and increasing complexity
• Experience overseeing legal, compliance, governance, or other corporate functions
• Strong interest in automation, AI, and modern finance systems

Success in This Role

• Within the first 12–18 months, success would include:
• Reliable forecasting, planning, and operating review processes that improve company decision-making
• Strong visibility into growth, profitability, efficiency, and investment performance
• Increased confidence from the Board, lenders, investors, auditors, and leadership team
• Improved financial discipline around resource allocation and investment decisions
• Successful modernization of finance systems and reporting infrastructure
• A Finance and Legal organization that is both operationally excellent and strategically influential
• Financial capabilities, governance, and reporting quality that support the company’s next stage of growth and complexity

About SE Ranking

SE Ranking is the company behind powerful and intuitive products that helps businesses grow and manage their online visibility across search, social, and AI-powered environments. SE Ranking is trusted by over a million businesses, agencies, and SEO professionals since 2013.

The software began as an instrument for monitoring and reporting on web page rankings and grew into a completely integrated SEO platform with over 30 tools that provide reliable data with clear insights for every step of the SEO process and allow the crafting of complex SEO strategies. SE Ranking is currently expanding its portfolio with the development of two additional products in the fields of SMM and AI-driven Search.

The SE Ranking workplace comprises 250+ talents from all over the globe. As a remote-first company, we strive to offer every team member a proper work-life balance. We take care of our employees’ physical and mental health by providing them with the relevant benefits. We value curiosity, creativity, dedication to life-long learning, transparent internal communication, and constructive feedback. To help every team member thrive and reach their full potential, we nurture a dynamic and supportive work environment that sparks growth.