United States
EuropeVP of Finance
2 мес. назад
United StatesEuropeWorldwideC-levelRemote
financial planningbusiness performancecapital allocationforecasting
Senior finance leadership role at a growing SaaS company to lead financial planning, business performance, and capital allocation as a key member of the leadership team.
Обязанности
- SE Ranking has built a meaningful, growing SaaS business. As we continue scaling and evolving into an AI-native, multi-product platform, finance must evolve from a reporting function into a strategic operating function.
- 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.
- We are looking for someone with the ambition and capability to lead Finance at SE Ranking for the long term and play a meaningful role in shaping the company’s future.
- 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?
- The VP Finance will report directly to the CEO and serve as a member of the leadership team.
- 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
Будет плюсом
- 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
Условия
- This is an opportunity to become the senior finance leader of a profitable, growing SaaS company with global reach, strong fundamentals, and significant ambition.
- You will work directly with the CEO and Board, help shape the company’s future, and build Finance and Legal functions that play a central role in strategy, execution, governance, and long-term value creation.
- For the right candidate, this role offers significant ownership, executive visibility, and the opportunity to build and lead a world-class Finance organization as SE Ranking continues to scale.
Другое
- SE Ranking is a profitable, global SaaS company helping businesses, agencies, and marketing teams improve their visibility across Search, AI Search, and Social. We serve customers worldwide, operate as a remote-first organization, and are entering our next stage of growth as we evolve into an AI-native, multi-product platform.
- We are looking for 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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