[Remote] SVP / VP, Financial Planning and Analysis

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avid Technology is the global leader in media technology solutions, powering the creation of the most listened-to, most watched, and most loved content in the world. They are seeking a Senior Vice President/ Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis to lead the FP&A function, drive financial insight, and partner with various departments to support strategic decision-making. This role will focus on building a world-class financial planning function while ensuring data integrity and effective reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual operating plan process end-to-end — from design and build through executive review, board presentation, and system load
• Own rolling forecasts, reforecasts, and long-range plans; maintain driver-based models that connect operational assumptions to financial outcomes with transparency at the product, segment, and route-to-market level
• Deliver scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support strategic decisions, including cost structure optimization, working capital management, and capital allocation
• Build and maintain a rigorous AOP monitoring framework — tracking actuals vs. plan monthly, flagging variances early, and driving corrective action with business owners
• Own the company's ARR reporting framework, including ARR bridge movements across new, expansion, contraction, churn, migration, and price — ensuring internal reporting reconciles fully to external and auditor-prepared analyses
• Produce and maintain the monthly close book, including revenue, ARR, EBITDA, and cash flow sections, with a rigorous QC framework that ensures figures tie end-to-end across all tabs
• Manage the reconciliation between recognized GAAP revenue, billings, and ARR — including contract asset and deferred revenue movements — with full traceability to underlying data sources
• Develop and maintain a holistic GTM reporting pack covering ARR and customer movements, bookings, churn and downsell analysis, renewal performance (UFR), pipeline, and sales team performance vs. quota
• Own the quarterly compliance certificate process, including Non-GAAP P&L preparation, addback support, and all underlying workpapers required by senior lenders
• Produce the quarterly management reporting package for the PE sponsor, including executive KPI dashboards, variance analysis with clear narrative, and updated business trajectory views
• Maintain a forward-looking liquidity model — weekly cash flow, monthly liquidity views, and scenario analysis around key cash events — in close partnership with the Treasury function
• Serve as a primary finance point of contact for PE sponsor finance teams and lender agents on reporting, covenant questions, and ad-hoc analytical requests
• Act as the senior finance business partner to the CFO and executive leadership team; translate financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive strategic and operational decisions
• Partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Product/Engineering to interpret results, challenge assumptions, and provide collaborative support on strategic planning
• Align with HR on headcount planning and cost tracking; maintain up-to-date financial views that reflect hiring plans, position changes, and actual headcount movements
• Partner with Accounting and Revenue Operations to drive accuracy and consistency in financial data — resolving reconciliation gaps between source systems, the general ledger, and management reporting
• Lead initiatives to move from manual, spreadsheet-dependent processes to scalable, system-driven reporting — reducing close cycle time and improving data reliability across the finance function
• Design and implement KPI frameworks that connect operational metrics to financial outcomes; ensure consistent definitions, calculation methodologies, and ownership across all reporting surfaces
• Evaluate and implement FP&A tooling and BI capabilities that improve reporting quality, reduce manual effort, and enable self-service insight for business stakeholders
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team; set clear priorities, build capability, and create a team culture defined by accuracy, intellectual rigor, and commercial impact
• Build the team's capacity to support the full scope of the FP&A function as the business grows — including recruiting for open roles and designing team structure to match organizational needs

Skills

• 10+ years of progressive FP&A and finance leadership experience, with a significant portion in PE-backed companies; you have been through the PE reporting cycle — compliance certificates, sponsor decks, lender calls — and you own it, not support it
• Demonstrated experience building or rebuilding a financial close process and FP&A reporting infrastructure — including close books, QC frameworks, hard monthly closes, and management reporting packs — not just inheriting and running an established one
• Hands-on experience with ARR bridge reconciliation in a multi-product, multi-route-to-market SaaS business; you understand every movement category and you have personally resolved discrepancies between internal reporting and external auditor analyses
• Deep working knowledge of GAAP revenue recognition (ASC 606), including the reconciliation between recognized revenue, billings, contract assets, and deferred revenue; experience managing a revenue recognition system (RevPro, Zuora, or equivalent) is strongly preferred
• Experience building and operating a GTM commercial reporting pack, including renewal and retention analysis (UFR or equivalent), churn and downsell attribution, pipeline reporting, and sales performance vs. quota — in partnership with a GTM leadership team
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain a forward-looking liquidity model, including cash flow scenario analysis and working capital levers, in a business with active lender relationships
• Strong technical accounting grounding in US GAAP; ability to read and interpret financial statements, bridge management and GAAP reporting, and engage credibly with auditors and lender finance teams
• Proficiency with financial systems: ERP (NetSuite preferred), advanced Excel/Power Query, Power BI or Tableau, CRM (Salesforce), and FP&A planning tools (Anaplan, Adaptive, or equivalent)
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills — you can present a complex variance analysis to a CFO and a lender agent in the same week and land both
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; MBA, MSF, or CPA strongly preferred
• Experience in a business with both subscription and non-recurring revenue streams, where internal management revenue (605-proxy) and GAAP revenue (606) are tracked and reported separately
• Experience managing or significantly contributing to a data integrity initiative — resolving source system discrepancies, reconciling conflicting analyses from multiple teams, and implementing a sustainable process going forward
• Track record leading finance through a period of organizational change — team restructuring, leadership transitions, or post-acquisition integration — while maintaining output quality and team stability
• Experience partnering with PE sponsor finance teams directly, including responding to STG, KKR, Vista, or equivalent-level reporting and analytical requests
• Familiarity with cost savings tracking methodologies, including actioned vs. unactioned savings and the distinction between notification, exit, realized, and pro forma savings dates
• CPA or equivalent professional certification
• Hands-on experience with Python or SQL for data extraction and automation

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