Senior Director, Finance Jobs

Are you a passionate senior finance leader looking to join a fast-paced SaaS business to make a meaningful impact? We’re looking for a Senior Director, Finance to join us at Thinkific.

As the Senior Director, Finance you will lead our accounting, financial reporting, tax & treasury teams. You will be responsible for ensuring the best practices in financial management and reporting as a public company while building the skills and experience of your team. You will strive to establish a financial team that is both a facilitator and a control function in providing strategic decision making support to our business leaders and maintaining strong processes and operating oversight. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), you will partner with internal teams and senior leaders on financial impacts of strategic decisions and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.

Your goal will be to drive the financial management of the company. Here’s how you’ll accomplish this:

• Attain better accountability for the business from department and business line reporting
• Complete project based work around internal controls, systems and processes, while working with teams outside of finance on revenue recognition, billing and collection issues, and future revenue streams
• Oversee public company reporting to ensure complete, accurate and timely reporting; Present quarterly reports to the Board
• Plan and create foresight for business changes, including tax, to provide the accounting team a roadmap and maintain proactive alignment with the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team to minimize surprises from a budget and forecasting perspective
• Provide strategic leadership and direction in all aspects of accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, tax compliance, cash management, audits and internal controls
• Manage key vendor relationships including banking, auditors, tax advisors, equity management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and others as they arise
• Work closely with business leaders and departments to accurately close the books and provide informative reporting that is meaningful for business decisions by the leadership team to support strategic plans
• Work closely with our CFO, Senior Leadership Team, and VP, FP&A on forecasting and budgeting, and to evaluate business development and corporate capital market opportunities

The person we have in mind likely:

• Loves to learn and grow. They’ve found (and keep looking for) ways to level up their skills in this field, whether that’s through formal education, gaining professional experience, or maybe even building their own business
• Possesses solid problem-solving and decision-making skills, with an emphasis on collaboration, consensus and innovation
• Has grown a public company to continued profitability
• Has 5+ years of experience in a Senior Manager or Director level leadership role in finance and accounting at a public company
• Possesses a solid understanding of software as a service (SaaS) metrics, monthly recurring revenue (MRR), average revenue per use (ARPU), lifetime value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC)
• Enjoys a collaborative work environment and has a successful track record leading an engaged, high performing team
• Has an accredited accounting designation (CPA, CA, CGA, CMA, etc.)
• Can ramp up quickly, provide recommendations, and use their forward-thinking skills to help shape and grow the finance team to suit the vision of the company
• Has an extremely high bar for ethics and integrity with a keen attention to detail

This is just our initial idea of who we’re looking for! At Thinkific, we know that people have unique career journeys. If your experience is close to what we’ve described but you feel that you might be missing a few of the requirements, please still apply! We’re also committed to providing a comfortable and accessible interview process for every candidate. If there are any accommodations our team can make throughout our hiring process (big or small), please let us know.