FP&A Director
From our founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, your data just arrives in your warehouse, canonical and ready to query, no engineering or maintenance required. As we watch more and more companies leverage our technology to become truly data-driven, we’re proud not only of our growth but also of the fact that we’ve grown without compromising our core values.
Integrity.
We do the right thing, even when it's harder in the short run. We challenge the status quo by reasoning from first principles.
Initiative.
Fivetran belongs to all of us. We take ownership and are accountable for getting things done. Through curiosity, learning, and coaching, we grow as individuals and teams.
One team, one dream.
We share the pains and successes of our customers, partners and colleagues. We seek, gather, and trust a diverse group of teammates with different perspectives to guide Fivetran's progress.
If these values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
Fivetran is looking for a FP&A Director to build a team to establish and improve budgeting, monitoring, and forecasting processes. This team will work with leadership cross-functionally to translate Fivetran’s long-term strategic plan into action by creating a robust budget, establishing reliable projections, and defining and measuring meaningful key metrics. The FP&A Director will collaborate with business partners to drive strategic projects and long-range planning, forecast revenue and operating costs, and support financial review meetings and other ad hoc projects.
As the FP&A Director, you will:
- Build, own, and oversee the Financial Planning and Analysis team
- Be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and analytical support to the management team and senior business leaders
- Own monthly processes to monitor progress against goals and evaluate budget variances to ensure a clear understanding of factors influencing our financial position and key metrics
- Collaborate with Revenue Operations to establish proper revenue targets and implementation of sales compensation plans
- Develop robust revenue forecasting methodology using inputs from Product, Sales, Marketing and Partnerships
- Implement and manage financial planning software and other financial systems
- Assess the financial viability of new initiatives and design KPIs to understand their success
- Prepare quarterly reporting materials for our executive team and board
- Bring best practices to develop, implement, and manage policies and processes that scale our financial operations
- Participate actively in financial due diligence process as necessary
- Work closely with the accounting and other departments to drive the process, data collection and reporting across the organization
What you’ll Bring to the Table:
- Experience in analytical roles (Strategy, Finance, Analytics, Business Operations, Management Consulting)
- Expert proficiency in financial modeling and analyzing complex and large data sets
- Experience budgeting for SaaS businesses
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills
- Track-record of collaborating with cross-functional partners to lead transformation and growth
- Excellent proficiency with accounting and corporate finance including topics such as billing, revenue recognition, fx, capitalization, accruals, amortization, and multinational entity consolidation
- Experience with ERP and corporate financial planning tools
Perks of working with us:
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
- 401k match program
- Eligible donation match program
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities
- Pet Insurance -- and yes, you can bring your well-behaved fur babies to work
- Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
Shaped by the real-world needs of data analysts, Fivetran technology is the smartest, fastest way to replicate your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance cloud warehouse. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes — so your data team can stop worrying about engineering and focus on driving insights. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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