How you can help make a better world of work

Culture Amp is currently looking for a VP of Commercial Finance who will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership, management, and operation of the organisation’s Commercial Finance function. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will have accountability for leading the FP&A, Reporting and Business Partnering functions and ~20 team members.  

You will

• Business Leadership: Be a strategic and commercial leader and influencer within the business and ensure operating rhythms, reporting, analysis and insight accelerate business performance in line with our strategic ambitions.  
• Team Leadership: Maintain a high-performance culture within the Commercial Finance team with values consistent with those of the broader organisation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to drive financial discipline and commerciality into the business.
• Strategic Financial Planning: Lead the development of medium and long range financial strategies aligned with company growth objectives and expansion plans.
• Financial Forecasting: Oversee accurate revenue and cost projections and financial modeling to inform business decisions and investor communications as well as variance analysis on a monthly basis.  
• Unit Economics Analysis: Drive deep understanding of profitability at the product, customer, and market level and proactively identify opportunities to improve key SaaS metrics like CAC, LTV, churn, and NRR.
• Investment Analysis: Evaluate ROI for new market entries, potential partnerships, product launches, and major business initiatives (including potential acquisitions).
• Board and Investor Relations: Prepare and present financial insights and progress metrics to the Board and investors on a regular basis.
• Operational Efficiency: Proactively identify opportunities to optimize spend and improve operating margins.

You have

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Business Administration or Finance, post-graduate qualifications such as MBA is advantageous but not essential.
• Membership of a recognised professional accounting body, such as CA, CIMA, CPA.
• Comprehensive technical skillset, including financial and operational management, forecasting and budgeting, planning and reporting, strategic leadership and framework development, investor relations and (ideally but not essentially) exposure to M&A inclusive of due diligence, documentation and integration.
• Experience in a senior finance role in an international high-growth business of scale with a degree of financial and operational complexity.
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to reconcile, summarise and interpret large amounts of data and communicate simply back to non-finance audiences.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to effectively communicate financial information to a range of internal and external stakeholders, including investors, in all market conditions.
• Well-developed people management skills and ability to build and lead high performing teams.
• Ability to coach and develop team members and build an appropriate and effective culture.
• Experience in Technology / SaaS organisation with knowledge and understanding of subscription revenue models.

You are

• Driven and energetic with a positive attitude to work
• A strong team player who demonstrates a collaborative approach to problem solving and decision making
• A strong and respectful communicator with a proven ability to influence key stakeholders and listen and take on-board other views and perspectives
• Values driven approach to culture with a focus on diversity and inclusion