Gong enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling their customer reality. The patented Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ captures and understands every customer interaction, then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue teams to make decisions based on data instead of opinions. Over 1,000 innovative companies like LinkedIn, Hubspot, Service Titan, Pinterest, and Drift trust Gong to power their customer reality. With Gong, customers experience improved win rates, increased deal sizes, and accelerated employee ramp-times.
Gong is looking for a Head of FP&A to join our Finance team. In this role, you will build the team from the start, and partner closely with top level executives and stakeholders across the company as you manage long range strategic planning, lead the annual budgeting process and monthly / quarterly forecast cadence, drive performance reporting and analysis, oversee our business intelligence capabilities, be a thought partner to our business leaders and grow and develop a team of top-flight professionals. You will partner closely with the CFO to plan and allocate resources supporting the company's strategic initiatives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage our consolidated strategic and financial planning processes, the annual operating plan, rolling financial forecasts, and the underlying financial planning models, systems, and tools
- Collaborate with leadership across the company to provide analytical rigor and evaluate strategic initiatives and key decision processes
- Drive alignment on key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure business results and evaluate the health of the business
- Drive organizational accountability through performance management of operating expenses and productivity initiatives
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting / dashboards for executives and Board of Directors--analyze financial results, distilling/synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risk and operating performance, and communicating key messages to senior management
- Manage a team with building team culture to improve the overall operation and effectiveness of the FP&A function
QUALIFICATIONS
- 15 plus years of FP&A experience in a Vice President or Sr. Director level role
- Experience in FP&A, business finance, investment banking, management consulting or related fields
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, extensive experience building integrated models from scratch, in Excel or in other planning applications; and experience resolving complex business problems with well-structured analytics
- A proven ability to identify and drive impactful financial outcomes, and to manage complex projects across multiple teams
- A proven ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and to build strong working relationships
- A proclivity for working in fast-paced environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable experience leading, developing and mentoring finance professionals, growing future leaders and inspiring high performing teams
- Understanding of GAAP and key accounting and revenue recognition principles underlying SaaS businesses
- Experience with SaaS business models, metrics and KPIs
- Experience with financial systems including, NetSuite & Salesforce
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics; MBA / advanced degree is a plus
- Experience in the software technology industry
PERKS & BENEFITS
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employees
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
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