Director of Operational Finance

Mitratech

3d•$160,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

Mitratech is hiring a Director of Operational Finance to serve as the embedded finance partner to a business division’s CEO and leadership team. The role is responsible for understanding the division’s financial performance, helping leaders use financial information to make decisions, and ensuring divisional activity is accurately reflected in company-wide planning. It is an individual-contributor role with significant visibility and a stated path to growth within the organization. The Director reports to the SVP of Finance and has dotted-line relationships with the division’s CEO and the Head of FP&A. The role works alongside Corporate Finance, which runs central processes, and partners with divisional leadership and shared-services teams. The position can be performed 100% remotely anywhere in the United States. The anticipated pay range is $160,000–$170,000 annually, with US employee benefits and annual bonus eligibility.

Requirements

7–10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, business finance, or finance partnering, including experience in a SaaS business.
Working knowledge of SaaS metrics, including ARR, bookings, retention, and margin, and the ability to explain what drives them.
Strong financial modeling and variance analysis skills, with judgment about which numbers matter to an executive audience.
Experience partnering directly with senior business leaders, such as a CEO, GM, or head of sales, and influencing without direct authority.
Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn analysis into recommendations and use numbers to tell a story.
Experience in a private-equity-backed company, including lender or sponsor reporting.
Experience with M&A, including synergy tracking or post-acquisition integration.
Experience with a modern planning platform or similar tools.
A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Pigment, which is preferred.
Experience with planning tools such as Adaptive, Anaplan, or Planful.
Experience with a multi-product or multi-entity software business.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary corporate finance and financial operations contact for the assigned division, partnering with the division CEO and executive team.
Translate corporate FP&A reporting standards into division-specific execution and promote consistent definitions and metrics across divisions, including bookings, ARR-related metrics, and margin expansion.
Bring divisional context, assumptions, and priorities into the annual budget run by Corporate Finance and keep the division aligned with company-wide planning cycles.
Assist division leadership with forecasting updates, performance tracking, and operational improvement, acting as financial chief of staff to the division CEO while staying aligned with Corporate Finance and company goals.
Identify and escalate critical items, risks, and variances across bookings, retention, and costs to divisional leadership and central FP&A, and support resolution efforts.
Identify and drive operational efficiencies and develop cost-savings and upside ideas with divisional leaders.
Track realization of below-the-line adjustments for the division and report progress to Corporate Finance for lender and board reporting.
Provide divisional input to monthly and quarterly close processes, perform variance analysis, and prepare divisional commentary for management and board reporting.
Deliver ad hoc analysis for division and corporate leadership as needed.
Partner with and influence shared-services functions, including Deal Desk, Operations, AR, Sales Operations, and Sales Compensation, to advance the division and reduce friction.
Lead synergy identification and tracking for acquisitions in the division and provide divisional input to Corporate Finance on diligence and integration into company financials.