Financial Planning & Analysis Director - #183380

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Q4 is charting a bold new path for investor relations as the first AI-driven IR Ops Platform, providing everything an IR team needs to succeed on a single, powerful platform. The Q4 Platform enables public companies to attract, manage, and understand investors - all in one place. Over 2,600 customers, including many of the most respected brands in the world, trust Q4 to help drive premium valuations for their companies. Only Q4 offers a tech stack holistically designed to equip IR teams with data, insights, and smart workflows that power remarkable outcomes.

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About The Role

We are looking for an experienced FP&A professional to join Q4’s FP&A function responsible for all planning processes, including the annual plan, monthly forecasts, and long-range plans. This individual will partner and plan with the business to drive the right decisions through actionable insights and analyses. This is a highly influential role across the company and requires someone with a true passion for technology, understanding of our core products and appreciation of our vision. This role will report to the VP, FP&A.

This role will have the opportunity to not only influence the forward-looking vision of the business, but also help grow the business through advanced financial modeling and development of business cases for strategic growth opportunities.

What You'll Do

• You will be Q4’s lead FP&A business partner: your core responsibility is to work with leaders across Q4 to drive exceptional business outcomes and tackle critical business challenges with insightful financial analysis to improve Q4’s operations
• Manage the input process of Q4’s budgeting and financial reforecasting process, including playing a leading role in working with department leaders to finalize their budget/forecast inputs for submission to Finance
• Lead commentary for Q4’s monthly and quarterly Board reporting given your deep relationships with our departmental leaders and understanding of their performance
• Conduct monthly departmental reviews versus budget and forecast to share with leaders their performance and produce actionable insights and recommendations for them to remain ahead of target
• Enhance our use of Netsuite and Salesforce by building out reports and saved searches that empower Q4’s financial decision-making
• Enhance our use of Adaptive Insights to (i) automate and empower our Board reporting and (ii) do the heavy lifting for budget/forecast modeling
• Complete reconciliations to ensure accuracy in the month-end close process
• Contribute where necessary to reporting for Q4’s lenders
• Contribute to M&A strategic financial modeling and integration activities
• Contribute to Finance team discussions on how to achieve our goal of operational excellence in areas of FP&A, Accounting, and FinOps
  
  

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in highly analytical environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with superior attention to detail; strong Excel skills and ability to impose structure and logic in ambiguous situations
• Proven track record and enthusiasm for building, managing, mentoring, and inspiring teams and influencing peer organizations; ability to lead cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent interpersonal skills and willingness to work in collaboration with various team members
• Effective writing and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple & easy-to-understand way
• Confidence to embrace new ways of doing things, including automating functions, finding scalable solutions and drives continuous improvement
• Acts without being told what to do; brings forward new ideas
• Doesn't cut corners; does what is right