Finance Business Partner, Director

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Summary

As the Finance Business Partner Director, you will serve as the primary contact for financial performance for assigned business functions. You will develop, organizationally align, distribute, and lead discussions on critical metrics to drive visibility and accountability throughout the organization. You will be an inspirational leader who conveys energy and credibility. This position directly reports to the SVP of FP&A.

• Work closely with the functional management team to ensure proper financial and business controls are in place
• Streamline systems and data to identify, measure effectively, and track key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Ensures alignment between revenue projections and associated spend for business function
• Manage headcount and staffing plans to ensure both functional objectives are met and within budget
• Support vendor negotiations and cost management for software, hosting, and hardware
• Manage monthly forecasts and annual budget through an inclusive process with the functional management team
• Oversees variance commentary and analysis of the business function against complete P&L and leading indicators
• Works with other Finance Business Partners, Corporate FP&A, and Accounting to disseminate and receive relevant information throughout the organization
• Support cost optimization projects through profitability analysis and efficiency recommendations
• Able to present complex information and findings to large teams
• Moderate understanding of GAAP and impact on financial forecasts
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business. MBA, CPA, or Masters preferred
• 10+ years of financial analysis experience; preferably in SaaS and/or Professional Services
• Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, Salesforce, or NetSuite preferred
• Can apply advanced knowledge and experience to developing new methods, programs, and procedures, and includes a comprehensive understanding of the practical issues of at least one central functional area where the knowledge is applied.
• Can drive the application of principles, theories, and concepts and determines the best course of action.
• Ability to resolve complex problems of line of business-wide operations.
• Skilled in establishing functional procedures and policy.
• Experience in identifying efficiency improvement activities and working to implement streamlining/efficiency changes.
• Ability to make tactical decisions that will impact the line of business.
• Executive communication and presentation skills

About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.