Tools Finance Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Determine how products deliver quantifiable customer value in terms of cost efficiency, revenue enhancement or protection, sustainability, and risk mitigation.

• Develop CFO-level financial models, encompassing cash flow and profit & loss statements, across the entire product range.

• Standardize models to ensure consistency in inputs and outputs across various accounts and products.

• Implement uniform accounting practices and compute ROI, TCO, NPV, IRR, and payback periods.

• Continuously refine model precision and innovate new methodologies for value quantification.

• Convert model results into persuasive financial narratives for clients, CFOs, and finance departments.

• Assist sales teams in articulating business cases in executive-level language.

• Oversee, manage, and sustain global assumptions, benchmarks, and financial inputs.

• Integrate new pricing structures, product innovations, and market trends into models within a specified service level agreement (SLA).

• Establish input sources, designate owners, and determine refresh schedules; maintain version histories.

• Reconcile model outputs with actual transactions.

• Document model logic, inputs, and outputs for automated systems and reference-case validation.

• Provide support to Value Consultants, sales representatives, and sales engineers on significant or intricate deals, including pricing negotiations.

• Collaborate with teams in competitive intelligence, data and analytics, product management, product marketing, finance, monetization, sales, engineering, and platform development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, corporate finance, investment analysis, value engineering, or management consulting.

• Extensive skills in financial analysis and modeling.

• Strong understanding of cash flow, profit & loss statements, and financial accounting principles, including CapEx versus OpEx, depreciation, and subscription models.

• In-depth knowledge of ROI and TCO, and practical experience with IRR, NPV, and payback calculations.

• Capability to translate intricate technical and commercial information into clear, justifiable financial reasoning.

• Methodical approach to assumptions, data integrity, and version control.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for articulating qualitative and quantitative business cases.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, particularly in sales, product development, monetization, and platform operations.

• Self-motivated, agile, and inquisitive, with a creative flair for quantifying value.

• Professional accounting or finance certification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CFA, or a Master’s degree with a financial focus (preferred).

• Experience in pre-sales or commercial finance at a technology vendor (preferred).

• Familiarity with enterprise technology or IT infrastructure (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible time off.

• Wellness resources.

• Company-sponsored team events.

• Support for growth and development.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Accommodations during the hiring process for candidates with disabilities.