Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.
Job Title: Senior Director of Finance
Location: Remote
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Job Description:
- Client is seeking a highly strategic and operationally-minded Senior Director of Finance to serve as the CFO and trusted business partner to the Chief Product & Technology Officer.
- This role will lead the finance organization supporting client's Digital, Product, Engineering, and Technology organizations, providing end-to-end financial leadership across a rapidly evolving portfolio of SaaS, cloud, platform, and network- enabled digital services.
- The successful candidate will bring experience operating within a high-growth SaaS environment and possess a deep understanding of subscription economics, consumption-based business models, product investment strategies, and software development lifecycles.
- Partnering directly with executive leadership, this leader will own the financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and performance management of the client Digital portfolio while leading a high-performing Product Finance organization.
- This role serves as a key member of both the Finance and Product leadership teams and will influence decisions regarding growth investments, product strategy, resource allocation, capital prioritization, and long-range planning.
Key Responsibilities:
Executive Business Partnership:
- Serve as the CFO and strategic finance partner to the Chief Product & Technology Officer and Product Leadership Team.
- Translate business strategy into actionable financial plans and investment decisions.
- Influence executive decision-making regarding growth investments, portfolio prioritization, organizational design, and capital allocation.
- Provide thought leadership to senior executives, including the CEO, CFO, CTO, and Product Leadership Team.
- Drive executive-level conversations around value creation, growth, profitability, and return on investment.
Full P&L Ownership:
- Lead financial management for the client Digital portfolio and broader Product & Technology organization.
- Maintain ownership across the full financial envelope including:
- Revenue
- Gross Margin
- Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
- Operating Expense (OPEX)
- Headcount Planning
- Capital Expenditures (CAPEX)
- Capitalized Labor
- Software Development Investments
- EBITDA
- Free Cash Flow
- Ensure alignment between investment decisions and long-term shareholder value creation.
SaaS & Digital Business Leadership:
- Act as the finance expert for SaaS, cloud, platform, and subscription-based business models.
- Develop and govern SaaS financial metrics including:
- ARR
- MRR
- Consumption Revenue
- Gross Retention
- Net Revenue Retention
- Customer Acquisition Cost
- Lifetime Value
- Product Unit Economics
- Assess product profitability and support pricing, packaging, and monetization decisions.
- Build investment cases for new product launches, platform development, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
Strategic Planning & Forecasting:
- Lead annual planning, long-range planning, and monthly forecasting processes.
- Develop financial scenarios tied to growth objectives, market opportunities, and product roadmaps.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales,Marketing, and Operations leaders to ensure plans are actionable and measurable.
- Drive resource prioritization across competing investment opportunities.
Product Finance Leadership:
- Lead and develop the Product Finance organization supporting:
- Client Digital
- Product Management
- Engineering
- Technology
- Strategic Product Investments
- Establish a world-class finance function focused on strategic decision support rather than scorekeeping.
- Build organizational capability in SaaS finance, product economics, forecasting, and investment analytics.
Investment & Capital Governance:
- Partner with Product and Technology leaders to evaluate investment opportunities and business cases.
- Govern capitalized software development spending and technology capital investments.
- Drive disciplined management of operating and capital expenditures.
- Develop frameworks to measure post-investment performance and expected returns.
Cross-Functional Leadership:
- Partner across:
- Product
- Technology
- Engineering
- Sales
- Marketing
- Corporate Strategy
- Investor Relations
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Serve as a catalyst for collaboration and alignment across organizations.
- Influence outcomes without direct authority.
Qualifications:
Required Experience:
- 10+ years of progressive Finance, FP&A, Corporate Finance, Business Finance, or Product Finance leadership experience.
- Experience supporting SaaS, software, cloud, digital platform, or technology-driven businesses.
- Demonstrated ownership of a complex P&L.
- Experience managing senior finance teams and developing leaders.
- Significant exposure to executive leadership teams and Board-level discussions.
- Strong understanding of:
- SaaS business models
- Subscription and consumption economics
- Product development lifecycles
- Capitalized software development
- Cost of delivery and hosting models
- Revenue growth drivers
Preferred Experience:
- Experience serving as Finance Leader or CFO within:
- SaaS startup
- High-growth technology company
- Cloud platform business
- Enterprise software organization
- Experience supporting a Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or Engineering organization.
- M&A, integration, or digital transformation experience.
- Telecommunications, cloud networking, AI infrastructure, or digital platform experience preferred.
Leadership Characteristics:
- The ideal candidate:
- Thinks like a CFO and operates like an entrepreneur.
- Understands how software businesses scale.
- Balances growth and financial discipline.
- Is equally comfortable discussing product roadmaps, engineering investments, unit economics, and cash flow.
- Brings executive presence and credibility with senior leadership.
- Creates clarity from ambiguity.
- Builds strong cross-functional partnerships.
- Leads with accountability, ownership, and a business-first mindset.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | NULL, AR (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $137.18–$159.35 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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