Afiniti
Job title:
Vice President, Commercial Finance and FP&A
Company
Afiniti
Job description
At Afiniti, we are a leading provider of artificial intelligence technology that elevates the customer experience by making moments of human connection more valuable. Our mission is rooted in a simple yet powerful idea: understanding patterns of human behavior enables us to predict how people will interact and create meaningful connections.
Using our patented AI technology, we revolutionize the contact center industry by pairing customers with the most compatible contact center agents. By doing so, we enhance the entire customer journey, resulting in exceptional experiences and improved outcomes for all parties involved.
Our transformative technology has generated billions of dollars in incremental value for our esteemed clients, which include Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries such as financial services, telecommunications, travel, and hospitality. We take pride in our global reach and impact, with our solutions being leveraged by organizations around the world.
To learn more about Afiniti and the groundbreaking work we do, visit www.afiniti.com.
About the role
Join Afiniti as we seek an experienced finance executive to lead our Commercial Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) functions. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) based in Washington, DC, you’ll collaborate closely with a diverse team spanning the UK, Ireland, North America, and Pakistan. Whether based in Dublin, Ireland, or Washington, DC, this pivotal role offers an opportunity to drive operational excellence and strategic decision-making across the organization.
As the driving force behind our financial strategy, you’ll partner with top-level executives and stakeholders to ensure alignment between our business objectives and financial performance. Additionally, you’ll spearhead performance assessment, business forecasting, and planning processes, collaborating with Revenue and Global Service Delivery (GSD) teams to evaluate new commercial opportunities. With your leadership, we’ll effectively allocate resources and capital to support Afiniti’s continued growth and success.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Budgeting and Forecasting: Manage strategic and financial planning processes, working closely with operational teams and business leaders to gather insights into business trends to update monthly forecasts. Lead the enterprise-wide annual budget process and development of long-term planning models, including consolidating inputs across the organization and having informed perspectives on results. Responsible for monthly executive P&L reporting and presenting monthly results to ELT and budget owners.
Financial Reporting: Oversee consolidation and reporting across the company, including the design and preparation of monthly and quarterly executive, board, and investor presentations. Assist in investor relations communications and analysis, including investor reporting and capital raise initiatives.
Presentations: Produce enterprise-level reporting such as P&Ls, KPI’s, contribution margin analysis by account/market, and monthly financial decks for review with executives. Maintain a risk and opportunity register to ensure effective risk management. Analyze financial results, distill key trends, assess current and future business risk and operating performance, and communicate key messages to senior management.
Financial Analytics: Develop and deliver ad hoc analyses to address current business challenges and answer questions regarding future financial scenarios.
Commercial Committee: Hold a seat on the Afiniti commercial committee, which holds approval rights on all deals to ensure investments align with our internal financial metrics. Work closely with the Partnerships team to assess how we can leverage partners for new and existing products while maintaining a commercial structure aligned with financial targets.
Business Partner to Functional Leads: Act as a business partner to functional leads, assisting them with budget management, understanding drivers and trends in their business unit, identifying growth opportunities, and developing strategic business plans including financial outcomes.
Ad-hoc Project Leadership: Lead additional ad hoc commercial and financial projects, including collaborating closely with HR, Revenue, and Executive teams to develop, implement, and monitor variable compensation plans, commissions, and bonus structures.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with a minimum of 5 years of experience in commercial finance, FP&A and/or financial reporting. Master’s degree in business, finance or accounting and/or CPA credentials would be an asset but are not required
- Exceptional partnership, influence, and communication skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity effectively
- Experience leading and managing high performing teams with focus on individual development, efficient prioritization, and high-quality output while meeting key deadlines
- Ability to work with executive management on a strategic level and with business partners on a tactical level to establish meaningful, actionable metrics and manage the business to achieve desired outcomes
- Proven experience in managing, mentoring, and developing multi-level international teams. Demonstrated experience in driving process efficiency within finance teams, including expertise in process engineering and ownership of finance system improvements and strategy
- Expert level proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including the development of complex financial models and ability to integrate data from disparate systems and tools
- Experience with Oracle NetSuite Planning and Budgeting and/or similar cloud-based planning software (e.g. Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Planful, Hyperion, etc) is required
- Software/technology industry experience strongly desired. Experience in a private-equity or venture capital backed technology company a plus
- Proven track record in a multinational, multi-currency enterprise with significant intercompany activity
- Strong familiarity with US GAAP, including balance sheet and cash flow forecasting is required; knowledge of revenue recognition rules, SaaS reporting metrics, and international statutory compliance requirements is a plus
Join our dynamic team and play a key role in shaping the future of customer experiences.
This role is ideally based in Dublin, Ireland in a hybrid work environment with several days per week in the office with other days working from home. Flexibility and willingness to work off hours to accommodate US and/or Pakistan time zones may be required, especially during financial close and/or budgeting season.
We believe that richness in diversity is a huge asset for Afiniti. We value both the similarities and differences in everyone who is a part of the Afiniti team. We believe that this diversity builds a stronger organization and is in keeping with the core values of our company. Our policy, therefore, is to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding or reproductive health decisions), gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, personal appearance, genetic information, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state or local law. This means that we comply with all applicable human rights and employment legislation, and we do not discriminate in any aspect of employment, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotions, reductions in force, or terminations.
Expected salary
Location
Dublin
Job date
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 04:30:58 GMT
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