Vice President of Finance

Summary

Join SimplePractice as the VP of Finance, reporting directly to the CFO. This key leadership role requires proven financial acumen, strategic thinking, and strong leadership to drive financial initiatives supporting company growth and profitability. You will oversee financial planning and operations, lead the FP&A function, partner with leadership, and provide performance visibility to investors. Strategic responsibilities include M&A and new market entry, along with board interaction. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in strategic finance within a high-growth technology company, excels in financial modeling and analysis, and is a proven leader of high-performing teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of strategic finance experience (including operating experience at a well-established SaaS or other high-growth technology startup or company). Experience with product/marketing led growth businesses highly desired as well as experience in private equity or investment banking
• Proven track record of creating insights that help drive company performance, margin expansion and growth
• A proven leader with experience managing high performing, diverse teams with multiple direct reports covering different areas of business
• Experience distilling complex ideas and financial models into actionable recommendations, enhancing communication across the organization
• Capable of setting and owning annual plan and our operating budget, balancing competing priorities and interfacing with senior leadership
• Able to collaborate with cross-functional partners at all levels in a fast-paced environment, leveraging your ability to influence and drive decision making
• Excellence in financial modeling and analytics and familiarity with FP&A platforms such as Adaptive Planning
• Strong quantitative, organizational and communications skills
• Unquestionable integrity

Responsibilities

• Define, report on and influence through the underlying operating levers that drive our performance.  Eg, what are the operating metrics that ultimately will shift customer acquisition, NRR, payments adoption - own them and partner with Marketing, Product and the broader leadership team in a way that creates outcomes for our business
• Create the framework and define the big rocks and the key performance outcomes for the annual plan. Be able to engage with and influence the management team to help prioritize initiatives and investments, growth targets, opex efficiency and capital allocation
• Partner with the Controllership organization to provide detailed monthly, quarterly and annual finance results with a narrative on key performance trends, risks and opportunities.  Partner with Analytics to drive visibility into key performance drivers. Provide the insights and visibility required of a private-equity backed company
• Be a business partner and lead a team that helps our Marketing, Product and Engineering, G&A teams have visibility on their business and be a trusted advisor on how to drive performance improvement; new greenfield investments; or decisions that impact our cost structure. Guard our margins/P&L but have empathy to help solve business problems
• Develop a thorough understanding of our business and our market to help derive and execute ideas to grow our business in areas such as product expansion, new revenue models and M&A
• Proven ability to attract talent and build high-performing teams across FP&A and strategic business partner roles
• Build operations that can scale.  Leverage modern FP&A platforms, experiment with AI to give us the ability to build a world-class finance team
• Building a company means wearing more than one hat. Have the intellectual capacity and get-stuff done attitude to dive in to help tangential areas, such as operational planning, M&A and partnerships

Preferred Qualifications

West Coast Based is preferred

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
• Mental health resources
• Paid parental leave & Backup Care
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)