What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, FP&A position at VTS?
As Director, FP&A at VTS, you will play a crucial role in guiding the financial strategy, decision-making, and planning for our organization. You will drive strategic decision-making by improving visibility into business performance, leveraging data-driven insights to shape VTS’ long-term trajectory. You’ll manage financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting.
This position requires experience in budgeting, forecasting, varience analysis, including knowledge of accounting and finance. You will partner with various senior-level executives to track and forecast expenses, while also producing timely and accurate financial analyses for the CFO and executive leadership team.
The ideal candidate is a highly analytical and self-motivated professional with exceptional financial acumen, modeling skills, and a proven track record in strategic financial leadership.
Here’s what you can expect as a Director, FP&A
Revenue & Expense Forecasting and Analysis:
- Develop robust forecasting models incorporating historical data, market trends, and business insights.
- Conduct variance analysis to identify key drivers impacting revenue performance and provide actionable recommendations to drive improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Marketing, Accounting, and Customer Support to align forecasts with business objectives.
Financial Planning and Strategy:
- Partner with Executive leadership to develop and influence long-term financial plans and revenue targets aligned with corporate objectives.
- Work with all levels of the organization to report, monitor, and manage key financial and non-financial performance indicators and analyze variances amongst them.
- Provide valuable strategic insights, leveraging deep understanding gained from analyzing data, trends, and other relevant information with respect to the current state of affairs, market dynamics, and potential future scenarios.
- Provide actionable recommendations, including specific suggestions and courses of action derived from strategic insights that are practical, concrete, and tailored to address identified challenges or leverage opportunities.
- Help manage expense controls across the organization, including reporting and expense review meetings
- Manage the annual budgeting process and monthly forecasts, providing guidance on revenue projections and assumptions.
- Deliver detailed gross margin analysis, reporting and insights, including but not limited to developing models for global talent initiatives, sales and customer support, etc.
- Work closely with the People Team to track headcount, open roles, and attrition rates.
- Work on special projects to support various business units with their financial analysis
Performance Reporting and Metrics:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive dashboards and reporting tools to track key revenue and margin metrics and performance indicators, with forecast accuracy as a key measure.
- Innovate the way we think and build reporting - challenging the organization to drive standardization in data and processes.
- Prepare regular financial reports and presentations for executive leadership, highlighting revenue and margin trends, forecasts, and strategic insights.
Team Leadership:
- Mentor an FP&A team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Provide leadership and guidance to team members, empowering them to excel in their roles and achieve departmental objectives.
To thrive in this role you should have:
- 8 years of FP&A experience, including investment banking / private equity high-growth start-up experience
- Fundamental understanding of SaaS, subscription, and usage-based business model metrics
- Proven experience leading FP&A in a fast-growing technology organization with multiple constituents that relied on your work.
- Strong understanding of FP&A processes, methodologies, and best practices, with the ability to drive process improvements and automation.
- Strategic thinking and financial analysis skills, well-developed problem-solving skills
- Strong experience analyzing trends, variances, and other performance measures
- Passion and interest to influence important business decisions with data-driven insights and the confidence to drive recommendations based on your deep knowledge of the business.
- Methodical and process-oriented to be able to build strong and repeatable business processes that can scale as the business grows.
- Must have the ability to prioritize workload and perform multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
- Attention to detail is a must.
- Must bring a process improvement/work simplification mindset
- Ability to work independently and within a team environment, and able to make well-reasoned and timely decisions.
- Collaborative and team-oriented with the intent on enabling and empowering business leaders.Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities|
What VTS Values & How We Show It:
- Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
- Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - monthly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
- Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees! Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
- Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
- Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!
ABOUT VTS
VTS is the commercial real estate industry’s only technology company that unifies owners, operators, brokers, and tenants in a single platform to capitalize on opportunities revealed in every square foot of their properties. In 2013, VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, the VTS Platform is the largest first-party data source in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by CRE professionals across the globe.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every business stakeholder in commercial real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 12 billion square feet of office, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS’ user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals and industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE. To learn more about VTS, and to see our open roles, visit www.vts.com.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago, and San Francisco.
To learn more about VTS and to see our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS), Twitter (@WeAreVTS), or LinkedIn.
Salary : $250,000 - $305,000