Vice President of Finance

Working alongside AFS’s established Controller and accounting team, the VP of Finance will develop a clear, connected view of the company’s financial performance and outlook. The role combines rigorous analysis with practical execution: understanding the underlying records, building and improving models, working through unfamiliar issues, and helping business leaders make better decisions.

Reports to:

Chief Financial Officer

Working alongside AFS’s established Controller and accounting team, the VP of Finance will develop a clear, connected view of the company’s financial performance and outlook. The role combines rigorous analysis with practical execution: understanding the underlying records, building and improving models, working through unfamiliar issues, and helping business leaders make better decisions.

We are looking for someone with strong financial fundamentals, intellectual curiosity, and the determination to get to the answer. The successful candidate will be comfortable with incomplete information, ask thoughtful questions, learn quickly, and follow issues through to resolution. They will personally do the work while helping the CFO establish the processes, tools, and team needed as AFS grows.

This role offers broad exposure to the executive team and private equity sponsor, meaningful responsibility, and the opportunity to help shape the financial direction of the business.

• Take ownership of existing budgets, forecasts, and supporting models, understand their assumptions and sources, and improve their accuracy, usability, and consistency.
• Build and maintain an integrated three-statement model connecting the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, with clear operating assumptions and scenarios.
• Lead the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning process in partnership with the CFO and business leaders.
• Translate customer activity, hiring plans, operating expenses, and investment decisions into financial outcomes.
• Identify risks and opportunities, quantify their impact, and recommend practical actions.

• Trace results from accounting records and supporting schedules through management, board, and lender reporting; investigate differences and resolve inconsistencies with the appropriate owners.
• Develop clear bridges between reported results, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, and ending cash.
• Establish useful reporting by function, revenue stream, and customer, including visibility into cost of revenue, gross margins, and operating expenses.
• Prepare monthly business reviews that explain performance against budget and forecast, highlight emerging issues, and identify decisions or actions required.
• Support the CFO in preparing board, sponsor, and lender materials, anticipating questions and providing well‑supported answers.

• Develop customer‑level forecasts that distinguish bookings, contracted and live recurring revenue, recognized revenue, billings, and collections.
• Work with Sales, Sales Operations, and Accounting to understand contract terms, pricing, renewals, implementation timing, and customer expansion opportunities.
• Partner with Professional Services leadership on project revenue, staffing, utilization, delivery costs, costs to complete, and profitability.
• Evaluate customer and product economics, including the effect of implementation timing and hosting or support costs on margins and cash.
• Help operating leaders assess hiring, vendor spending, pricing proposals, and product or technology investments, and track results against their business cases.

• Partner with the Controller on weekly cash forecasting and…