Chief Financial Officer

Summary

Join OffSec as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO), reporting directly to the CEO and leading the finance, legal, and co-leading HR departments. You will be responsible for managing financial operations, focusing on key metrics, overseeing financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. This role requires a data-driven approach to optimize pricing, customer acquisition, and revenue generation. You will collaborate with the sales team, board, and cross-functional teams. The position offers flexible work hours from a home office and the opportunity to shape the finance function of a fast-growing, market-leading cybersecurity company.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a finance leader in a fast growing B2B enterprise sales-focused software business
• In-depth, hands-on experience with key metrics for a SaaS or recurring business model, such as customer acquisition cost, churn, retention, net and gross dollar retention
• 10+ years of leading financial operations for a business with global operations with an international sales motion including B2B sales, government sales, and partner and channel sales
• Extremely analytical, capable of collecting and analyzing the key data to gain insights to guide the business for revenue optimization and margin improvements
• A strategic thinker, able to learn fast about a new industry and business, and have been an active contributor to develop company strategy as a senior financial leader
• Strong background in FP&A, with hands-on experience managing FP&A in large and growing B2B software and/or SaaS companies
• Able to deep dive deeply into the business and work with the finance and accounting teams and other cross-functional teams in a hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves fashion
• A great leader that will develop the teams and be a peer to collaborate with the rest of the executive team(s), embracing a growth mindset, striking the right balance between business and people, and leading by example
• Highly proficient with excel, Google drive tools, capable of building financial models hands-on or providing detailed guidance to teams
• Highly analytical, capable of extracting actionable insights from vast amount of data
• Experienced in developing financial and operational KPIs that indicate the health of business, and areas for improvements
• Able to deep dive with teams to enable goal achievement, and to proactively identify signals for potential forecast risks to facilitate necessary corrections
• A strategic thinker with hands-on execution skills and the ability to lead from the front
• Expertise in providing a vision for what must be done, winning the support to execute the vision and managing to achieve established business objectives
• Capable of executing short-term (tactical) and long-term (strategic) plans
• Experience managing and inspiring globally distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Setting clear and measurable performance objectives and monitoring progress rigorously, planning, and linking action to business priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset
• Passion for building communities and engaging with a global user base
• Self-secured/confident executive, but not arrogant
• Ambitious and growth oriented who is intellectually curious
• High level of emotional intelligence and can gain the credibility and respect of others

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models, forecasts, and budgets to track performance against strategic goals, including managing cash flow and identifying potential risks
• Analyze revenue by product and by customer types to understand customer acquisition costs, customer retention rates, and pricing strategies to maximize revenue growth and optimize customer lifetime value
• Develop insightful KPIs to know the health of the business and where improvement opportunities lie, including metrics such as customer acquisition cost (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), net dollar retention, unit cost of various operational functions
• Be an active contributor to develop company growth strategies. Collaborate with the executive team to develop and implement financial strategies that align with the company's overall business objectives
• Prepare financial presentations and reports for the board, manage relationships with financial services providers, and support fundraising activities when needed
• Ensure adherence to financial regulations and accounting standards, oversee financial reporting processes, and produce accurate financial statements
• Lead the finance team, including accounting, budgeting, and analysis functions, and develop talent within the department. Build and foster relationships across multiple cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience evaluating and executing on expansion via acquisitions including post-acquisition integration
• Experience running B2C businesses as a financial leader
• If the candidate has worked in a private equity-backed company focusing on strong EBITDA growth or in the cybersecurity industry

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Work from home office