Senior Director, FP&A

About SecurityScorecard:

Funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others with over $290 million in funding, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 10M+ companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard patented rating technology is used by over 16,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, and cyber insurance underwriting. This is done by measuring your and your vendors' cyber-health by assigning a security rating of "A" through "F" based on outside-in, non-intrusive data. 

SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in NYC with over 400+ employees globally. Our culture has helped us be recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace," "Best Places to Work in NYC" by Crain's NY, and one of the ten hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row. 

Senior Director, FP&A

This role will partner closely with business leaders and the SVP, Finance to develop financial forecasts and scenarios, then apply financial insights to assist and direct decision making. Responsibilities include FP&A, monthly and quarterly financial reviews, board updates, and the creation of processes and dashboards to answer complex questions. Successful candidates will be collaborative, results oriented, and be able to formulate complex analyses into simple and succinct communications. This individual must be able to balance the desire to move fast, with that of providing thorough, actionable, and accurate information. This is a SaaS business. As such, the individual needs to be versed in SaaS metrics, benchmarks and other nuances.

Core Responsibilities: 

• Lead the development of the annual operating budget, long-term strategic financial plans as well as monthly and quarterly models and forecasts by partnering with business units and functional leaders.

• Robust competency on creating durable in-depth financial models; deliver timely, accurate, and effective analysis and reporting of financial and operational performance metrics.

• Ability to quickly learn and run our planning software (Workforce Adaptive) and build the necessary models and reporting packages needed for OpCO and Board Reporting

• Work with cross-functional business teams to identify fundamental business drivers and risks to those drivers, and translate them into modeling parameters; Tight-knit coordination on driving improvements to the business based on deltas between actual performance and budget

• Actively engage functional leaders to find ways to better partner and provide visibility to manage their respective businesses and functions.

• Identify systems and process gaps and implement technology, software and new processes to increase transparency, speed and automation to improve the financial planning process.

• Partner with Accounting teams for month-end and quarter-end close reporting

• Build and lead a “lean” team of high-performing FP&A professionals

• Ad-hoc analysis as required (often)

• Be extremely resilient and “thick skinned”; Move as fast as possible employing the 80/20 rule

Required Qualifications-

• 12-15 years’ experience: working in B2B Enterprise SaaS company in financial roles (Demonstrated outstanding financial leadership skills and expertise with an emphasis on financial analysis, budgeting, management reporting and projections.)

• Able to synthesize vast amounts of information, develop high quality analytics and communicate clearly and succinctly to different audiences (business leaders to executives).

• Extremely high business acumen, performing operationally focused financial analysis and data gathering to support strategic and business development initiatives.

• Strong financial background and attention to detail, with full understanding and experience with financial models and analysis.

• Able to manage multiple priorities with accuracy and efficiency while meeting deadlines.

• Maintains the highest accuracy and precision and standard for excellent presentable work, and someone who is highly organized and can manage a diverse team with a diverse range of responsibilities.

• Skilled at creating processes and organization around routine FP&A business function as well as ad-hoc strategic transactions.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field, MBA or CFA, and experience in FP&A

• Ability to exhibit management courage while still forming strong relationships throughout the business

Our Company Values 

• S: Solution-focused: we value people who come up with solutions, and not just point out problems.

• C: Customer-centric is a crucial value we constantly keep in mind. We ask ourselves in each meeting “how is what we are doing making customer lives better?”

• O: One Scorecard - We value people who have no ego and want to win as a team.

• R: Resilience - This is a hard road, and not an easy road: you need to cultivate the same resilience in the rest of your team.

• E: Embody Security DNA- The more you learn about cybersecurity, the more you will be able to influence the company. We value people who are passionate about cybersecurity.

SecurityScorecard embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, or disability status.