Director-FP & A

Tideworks Technology•Seattle, WA

8h•$165,000 - $205,000

About The Position

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and serves as Tideworks Technology’s senior FP&A leader. The role has full accountability for enterprise planning, forecasting, management reporting, business performance analysis, and decision support in a private-equity-backed software and technology business. It is an individual-contributor role at launch, requiring the Director to build and execute core FP&A processes while influencing leaders across the organization. The position owns the annual budget, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, department and project performance reporting, recurring-revenue and professional-services analytics, cash-flow forecasting, and financial models supporting strategic and operating decisions. It partners with Accounting, Sales, Professional Services, Product, Engineering, HR, IT, Legal, and Procurement. The Corporate Controller owns GAAP actuals, accounting policies, close, and external financial reporting; FP&A owns budgets, forecasts, operating analytics, and forward-looking planning. The Director leads enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting, management and private-equity reporting, revenue and commercial finance, cost and headcount planning, cash-flow and strategic finance, systems and data transformation, and cross-functional operating cadences. The role also serves as FP&A business owner for planning and reporting requirements during the migration from IFS to NetSuite, and develops scalable dashboards and standardized reporting using Power BI or comparable tools.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent from an accredited university.
Master’s degree in business management, finance, math, statistics, or equivalent.
10+ years of experience in Finance, including at least 6+ years managing teams of individual contributors and their work products.
Thorough knowledge of GAAP and IFRS.
Strong skills with MS Office, Power BI, data management, and large financial ERPs.
Advanced project-management and organizational skills.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to communicate key data concisely and accessibly to people with varying levels of financial acumen.
Ability to collaborate effectively with other departments and resources in large, complex business environments.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to adjust messages for different audiences and organizations.
Strong focus on execution and accountability in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Industry experience in terminal operations, logistics, or transportation is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range plan, and scenario analyses across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, headcount, capital expenditures, working capital, and cash flow.
Develop a driver-based planning model connecting bookings, backlog, ARR, revenue streams, professional-services delivery, staffing, compensation, and discretionary spending.
Establish planning calendars, assumptions, templates, review standards, and functional ownership; challenge inputs and reconcile operating plans to company objectives and resources.
Produce base, upside, downside, and liquidity scenarios and identify their assumptions, risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and management actions.
Partner with the CFO and leadership team to translate strategic priorities into financial targets, resource-allocation decisions, and accountable operating plans.
Own monthly and quarterly management reporting, including actual-versus-budget and actual-versus-forecast analysis, EBITDA and cash-flow bridges, KPI scorecards, and explanations of business performance.
Prepare recurring reporting and analyses for the CFO, executive leadership, Board, private-equity owner, and lenders, including operating trends, covenant forecast support, liquidity, and value-creation initiatives.
Develop performance views by product, customer, geography, department, project, and revenue stream where data supports reliable analysis.
Maintain a forecast-to-actual feedback loop, identify forecast bias and recurring variances, and improve forecast accuracy and accountability.
Partner with the Corporate Controller to reconcile management reporting to GAAP actuals and consistently document non-GAAP measures, KPI definitions, and adjustments.
Own forward-looking revenue models for subscription/ARR, licenses, maintenance/support, hosting, implementation, professional services, and other material revenue streams.
Build and maintain bookings, backlog, ARR, renewal, churn, expansion, pipeline-conversion, deferred-revenue, and unbilled-revenue analytics with Sales, Professional Services, and Accounting.
Partner with Sales and business leaders on pricing, discounting, deal economics, customer profitability, contract terms, payment structures, and resource requirements while leaving GAAP revenue conclusions to Accounting.
Develop professional-services planning and reporting for utilization, billable capacity, realization, project margins, contractor-versus-FTE mix, delivery backlog, staffing needs, and revenue conversion.
Establish ARR-to-GAAP revenue bridges and explain timing, mix, and cash-flow implications of bookings and contract structures.
Lead headcount and compensation planning with HR and department leaders, including hiring timing, vacancies, contractors, merit, bonus, benefits, payroll taxes, and location assumptions.
Provide finance partnership to Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, HR, IT, Legal, and Procurement through operating reviews, decision support, and investment analysis.
Evaluate business cases, vendor commitments, technology investments, make-versus-buy decisions, pricing initiatives, and expenditures using consistent financial and strategic criteria.
Develop contribution-margin, customer-profitability, product-economics, and return-on-investment analyses to support resource allocation and prioritization.
Monitor approved and unbudgeted expenditures against delegated authority and promptly escalate material forecast, liquidity, or return risks.
Own the integrated cash-flow forecast and partner with Accounting on inputs for collections, vendor payments, payroll, taxes, debt service, capital spending, and working-capital movements.
Analyze AR, deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, billing schedules, collections, AP timing, and other working-capital drivers; identify actions to improve cash conversion and forecast reliability.
Support debt and covenant forecasting, lender reporting analysis, financing scenarios, acquisitions, integrations, separation/TSA activities, and potential exit diligence as required.
Provide financial modeling and analytical support for strategic initiatives, market expansion, product investments, partnerships, and M&A opportunities.
Serve as FP&A business owner for planning, reporting, and analytics requirements during the IFS-to-NetSuite migration, including chart-of-accounts and dimensional design, management-reporting hierarchies, data validation, UAT, and post-go-live stabilization.
Design integrated planning and reporting architecture across NetSuite, CRM, project/PSA, payroll/HRIS, billing, and business-intelligence tools; establish controlled data definitions and reconciliations.
Develop scalable dashboards and standardized reporting in Power BI or comparable tools, with drill-down capability and documented KPI definitions.
Reduce manual spreadsheet dependency through governed models, repeatable data flows, version control, and review procedures while preserving transparent assumptions and auditability.
Document FP&A processes, model logic, calendars, data ownership, KPIs, and reporting standards.
Operate as a hands-on individual contributor and establish a scalable FP&A operating model, including planning standards, review controls, workload prioritization, documentation, and processes that can support future growth.
Establish regular budget-owner and leadership review cadences focused on decisions, corrective actions, risks, opportunities, and ownership.
Communicate complex financial issues in clear, decision-oriented language for financial and nonfinancial audiences.
Promote constructive challenge, accountability, data integrity, and cross-functional collaboration throughout the planning process.