Strategic Finance Manager - Toronto, Canada - PartnerStack

PartnerStack

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About PartnerStack:

Do you thrive off collaboration and impact? Love to light up your brain and pick up new skills? We're a team of trailblazers in tech who run on heart and humility, and maybe a little bit too much caffeine, too.

But who's judging? If this sounds like you, you may be the perfect fit for PartnerStack.

PartnerStack is the only ecosystem platform built for B2B SaaS. We're the connection point between today's fastest-growing SaaS companies and top-performing partners. Our mission? To change the way the world sells software — and with your help, we can get there faster

About you and the role:

You are resourceful, very curious, and good-natured with strong communication skills and strong SaaS financial modelling experience.

You are detail oriented and passionate about leveraging finance and data to think through problems of a fast growing startup.

Through comprehensive analysis, you surface key business insights, as well as SaaS and marketplace performance metrics. You love telling a story through a finance lens about a company's performance, both present and future. You understand the nuances of a story depending on the audience to which it is targeted (eg. company employees, management, investors or the Board of Directors). You have an analytical mind and enjoy helping organizations identify opportunities and address problems.

You are ready to take the next step in your career to be both player and coach for a finance team that is set to grow.

What you'll do:

PartnerStack is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager with SaaS experience to drive budgeting, forecasting, planning and financial analysis in a fast growing SaaS marketplace startup.

You will not only be responsible for the forward looking financial models, but also the communication of company business results through in-depth analysis and reporting of monthly revenue, operating expenses and KPIs.

This numbers crazy person will provide financial insights to help drive operational efficiencies to ensure the department leaders maximize the effectiveness of their investments in growth and their impact on top line growth.

You will report directly to the CFO and work cross-departmentally with executive leaders in the organization.

The successful Strategic Finance Manager will:

Drive business impact through data-driven financial analysis across a wide range of SaaS and company performance measures
Manage a monthly reporting process that brings key insights to the Executive team, the Board and investors about the financial performance of the company and influence key business decisions
Develop and spearhead a process that supports the dynamic modelling of our subscription and variable transaction revenue lines, as well as departmental operating budget that drive accountability into the business and provide a reliable base for budgeting and cash forecasting
Work with the Data team to ideate, develop, create ongoing business metrics, reports, data visualizations and analytical solutions that provide stakeholders access to business metrics and insights
Build strong relationships across Accounting, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering and Executive teams to gather meaningful insights that will enhance our product and business goals
Drive operational excellence in the finance reporting process
Oversee the data and insights created for the Finance section of the quarterly Board package
Manage monthly and quarterly reporting with investors and lenders
Perform business analysis and requirements gathering to support a variety of finance and business operations initiatives ranging from marketplace expansion to international currency payment projects to a venture capital fundraising round
2+ years SaaS financial analysis experience, preferably supporting sales, revenue and departmental OpEx in a SaaSbased business. SaaS experience is a must have.
Indepth experience working with business leaders to build budgets, projections and forecasts from scratch, crossdepartmentally for a SaaS startup
Creating and driving a process to provide monthly financial analysis and insights to management, the Board and investors
Expertise manipulating large amounts of data for business modelling and adhoc analysis in Google Sheets and Excel
On the job understanding of the B2B SaaS model / "gets" B2B SaaS sales motions
Smarts to tease out a story from the numbers and to prove out or disprove business strategies and tactics using financial analysis
Exposure raising venture capital and/or a venture debt
Experience with marketplaces and/or payment platforms is also highly desirable
MBA or Honors Bachelor of Commerce from a top university program

Why you'll love working here:

PartnerStack is a fast-growing startup revolutionizing how SaaS companies go to market and scale revenue with partnerships. Beyond challenging the status quo and innovating great products, our goal is to build a ki