Senior Director, FP&A

Overview

It s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they re doing! At Black Line, we re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, Black Line has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At Black Line we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers. Work, Play and Grow at Black Line!

Make Your Mark: As Black Line continues to build Finance capabilities that enable profitable growth at scale, we are looking for a Senior Director, FP&A to build, scale, and lead operational processes for our Finance team. The position reports to Black Line’s Vice President of Finance and will have direct interaction with our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer.

In this role, you will be the senior strategic and operational leader for corporate finance, owning the consolidated 3-statement financial model and all inputs to the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statement. You will be a key partner to the CFO, providing critical strategic insights, cost management analysis, and decision support. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, technically proficient in building complex financial models, and comfortable diving deep to inspect financials and communicating a compelling financial narrative to an executive audience.

You will be a critical conduit between finance, accounting, business partners, and Investor Relations to ensure financial reporting is delivered accurately and timely to the CFO, executive team, and board of directors.

Strategic Financial Planning:

• Own and drive all financial planning processes, including forecasts, Risk & Opportunity (R&O) assessments, quarterly business reviews, the annual operating plan (AOP), long-range planning (LRP), and executive level/BOD reporting.
• Develop scenario analysis processes and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance the strategic planning process.
• Lead industry benchmarking initiatives and gain alignment on establishing and progressing towards key financial targets.
• Lead financial due diligence and integration for potential M&A activities, providing analysis and recommendations to the executive team.
• Coordinate the planning cadence, monthly and quarterly business rhythms, including systems and process dependencies from a corporate FP&A perspective.

Operational Execution:

• Coordinate the planning cadence, monthly and quarterly business rhythms, including systems and process dependencies from a corporate FP&A perspective.

Financial Modeling & Analysis:

• Own, develop, and maintain the corporate 3-statement financial model, including the consolidation and internal reporting of GAAP and non-GAAP financial statements.
• Refine forecast methodologies and build sophisticated, driver-based financial models for all key corporate assumptions, including payroll, stock-based compensation, share count, capex, and depreciation waterfalls.
• Drive process improvements to improve forecast accuracy and reduce cycle time through building processes to source critical data and bridge variances.

Reporting & Business Partnership:

• Provide critical support to the Investor Relations team, including the development of financial models for earnings guidance and the preparation of materials for external reporting.
• Develop and maintain management reporting, dashboards, and a suite of key performance indicators (KPIs), including Go-to-Market (GTM) metrics, to deliver compelling narratives on business performance.
• Function as a thought leader over data governance, automation initiatives, and the feature roadmap for our internal planning and reporting systems to ensure data is reported on consistently and accurately.

Develop financial acumen across the company through financial mentoring and training.

Process Automation & Improvement:

• Develop an automation strategy to mitigate manual aspects of the forecasting and budgeting process and collaborate cross-departmentally to drive project completion.
• Increase adoption of AI across Finance and the business to increase productivity and insights.

Years of Experience in Related Field: 10+ years of total experience

Education: Bachelor s degree required with proven history of high achievement, MBA a plus

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Extensive experience building, developing, and leading a Corporate Finance/FP&A function for a…