We are looking for a Director, Financial Planning & Analysis who will play a critical role helping company leadership with decision-making. Our Director, Financial Planning & Analysis will be tasked with providing insight, reporting and recommendations to key stakeholders including the CEO, COO, President, as well as leadership in Sales, Customer Success, Customer Enablement and Product. You will lead the FP&A department and help the company achieve our commercial and financial goals.

Who we are:

CreatorIQ is the leading SaaS solution for global enterprises to manage and optimize influencer campaigns at scale. We have global relationships with companies such as Amazon, Mattel, Disney, Tiffany & Co, Airbnb, Ralph Lauren, CVS, Dell, Edelman, and many more. CreatorIQ operates in five offices around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, London, Chicago, and Kharkiv.

What you’ll do:

• Shape FP&A at CIQ: Build the future of FP&A at CIQ. Help improve our current systems, processes, tools, and infrastructure. Prepare FP&A to support the company’s rapid growth and help us prepare the insights and decision support expected of a great Finance team. These insights will be rooted in a robust budgeting and tracking process, leveraging CRM and ERP integrations. 
  
• Leadership: Work with the CEO, COO, President, Head of Sales and other executives to help drive strategic decision-making and to recommend and prioritize CreatorIQ’s investments. Manage a small FP&A team but produce an out-sized impact across the company via communication and translation of concepts into a common language for all departments
• Financial Planning: Help lead CIQ financial planning cadence both short and long term (quarterly forecasts, 3-yr strategic plan, BOD reviews, etc). Project manage the process within finance and help the organization contribute to it. Via your team, maintain and enhance the financial model that links KPIs and business drivers to the P&L/BS/CF.
• Goal Achievement & Measurement: Take revenue forecasting and financial modeling to the next level. Understand the KPIs that truly drive our topline and synthesize these into revenue/cost financial models that provide an accurate line of sight into the future at the right level of detail. Help set goals and objectives for those KPIs and build a reporting platform to track success. Provide insight via monthly and quarterly variance reporting.
• Analytics: Help unlock value by leveraging data analytics. Scrub through trends and facts to come up with insights and “a-ha” moments that help either grow revenue or scale costs. Figure out how to use department-specific metrics to improve efficiencies that flow into the bottom line.
  
• Communicate: Communicate the state of the business (the “what” and the “why) to key audiences in the organization. This can range from a recurring weekly update on revenue performance to presenting your findings to an exec audience to contributing to the delivery of a presentation to the BOD. Presentations are substantial, tailored to the audience, impactful and professional. 
• Business partnering: become a trusted business partner to key leaders in our organization. In this role you will be partnering with senior leaders to learn their business and help them be successful. You will also need to develop a strong relationship with Sales, Operations, Marketing, Business Intelligence, and Accounting.
• Process Improvement: Help CIQ build scalable processes that drive efficiencies and insights via new tools (e.g. help us implement a financial planning tool, like Adaptive), automation of existing platforms (e.g. Salesforce, ERP, etc.) and improved communications & process.

Who you are and what you’ll need for this position:

• 8+ years of professional experience in corporate finance, management consulting, and/or investment banking). At least four years in Corporate Finance is required
• Experience working in a professional, high-caliber corporate finance department plus the vision and leadership talent to help CIQ build our own FP&A organization to a high standards
• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative or business field (finance, economics)
• MBA is a plus
• Strong proficiency with Excel a must; this is a player-coach role 
• Ability to synthesize large sets of data from multiple, seemingly unrelated sources and enjoy the process
• Prior experience working in the SaaS industry is a big plus. 
• Prior experience working with a financial planning tool like Adaptive Planning or Host Analytics is a plus
• Prior experience working in high-growth start-ups is a plus
• Prior experience working in international operations is a plus
• High EQ, comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality
• Not take yourself too seriously and the ability to have fun