Matillion is The Data Productivity Cloud
Matillion helps teams get data business-ready, faster — accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have.
Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, DocuSign, Pacific Life, Slack, and TUI trust Matillion technology to load, transform, sync, and orchestrate their data for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning, and AI.
With over $300M raised from top Silicon Valley investors, we are on a mission to power the data productivity of our customers and the world.
We are passionate about doing things in a smart, considerate way. We’re honoured to be named a great place to work for several years running by multiple industry research firms.
With dual headquarters in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, and an expanding hybrid culture, we are looking for passionate, high-integrity individuals to help us scale up our rapidly growing business.
The role
As a key member of the Finance leadership team and the company, the VP of FP&Awill report to the CFO/COO, lead the FP&A team, and manage all financial planning, forecasting and analysis functions across Matillion. This is a high profile and high impact role that will work closely with executive and senior leaders across the business, with an opportunity to shape the growth trajectory and profitability of the company.
This function will provide analysis and support that enables business leaders to drive the company forward towards its ambitious growth targets. This role will partner with the CFO/COO, CEO and other key leaders across Matillion to drive cross-functional initiatives to support profitable growth and performance. This role will work closely with leaders and teams across the business on a range of areas including but not limited to developing accurate forecasts, managing budgets, workforce planning, sales planning and compensation programs.
What you will be doing
Lead global financial planning processes, including annual operating plan, monthly forecasting, and long term strategic plan
Review, implement, and maintain the revenue financial model in close partnership with sales, product, and sales operations
Review, implement, and maintain the cost model, working in close partnership with key business leads
Partner with leadership and operational teams and hold them accountable for delivering against targets and business objectives
Establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators for the business and provide financial analysis to senior leadership on key business trends and the market environment
Deliver and contribute to a range of weekly/monthly/quarterly business reporting as well as contributing to wider monthly/quarterly finance deliverables and investor presentations.
Lead a growing and high performing global FP&A team and own all aspects of the financial planning process - revenue, gross margins, Opex and Capex
Manage regular forecasts and financial review meetings
Structure and execute ad-hoc analyses such as evaluating new product and investment proposals; deliver a range of ad-hoc reporting as required
Identify and communicate opportunities and risks impacting business performance
Develop and prepare executive and Board materials
Create and implement a vision for how to scale the FP&A team (org structure, systems and processes) to manage significant company growth
Development, implementation and improvement of processes and procedures to enable the finance function to be ‘built to scale’ What we are looking for
Bachelor's degree in business, finance or accounting or an MBA
Extensive FP&A experience, ideally both in companies at scale and at companies with high growth rates in the software space
Proven leader with experience managing large teams of high performers; ability to recruit, train and retain top talent
Strong financial analysis capabilities: ability to interpret financial reports and data to understand business performance and identify trends, risks and opportunities
Ability to focus on the big picture while being able to remain “hands on” with attention to detail
Strong verbal and written communication/presentation skills: comfortable interacting and communicating with executive and senior management levels
Strong interpersonal skills: demonstrated ability to develop strong, cross-functional relationships
A strong bias for action and ability to thrive in ambiguous situations.
Experience with data visualisation software like Tableau.
Experience in software companies with a consumption businesses model
Experience working in investment banks or management consulting experience would be a plus Work Location
