CFO – SaaS – Data Governance – Paris / San Francisco

Saul & Partners Executive Search

London

8 months ago

Applications closed

Salary: Six Figure base + Bonus + benefits

Summary: Our client is solutions pioneer to securely and rapidly address challenges such as data privacy compliance automation, data protection and data operations on Salesforce.

CFO Role:

Building a global financial strategy
Acting as Administrator of all subsidiaries
Providing strategic recommendations to the CEO and steering committee
Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting
Advising on long-term business and financial planning
Being responsible for financial audits (internal/external)
Establishing and developing relations with senior management, external partners and stakeholders
Providing leadership, direction and management of the Finance department
Reviewing all formal Finance, HR, Legal and IT related procedures

Skills and Experience:

Must have recent and significant experience as a Chief Financial Officer at a technology company with MRR such as SaaS, Cloud, hosting, etc.
Must have international experience. This is an international company with offices in the United States, France and Australia. It is multi-cultural and entrepreneurial. Ideal candidates will speak French and English fluently and be sensitive to other cultures.
Must be a CFO with extended capabilities. Must be able to take over responsibility for Finance, Accounting, HR, and Legal. Need someone who is very strategic, analytical, and collaborative.
Must be able to take responsibility for financial analysis and making sure they have the best budgeting system in place.
Someone that will validate the numbers. Must be very good at strategic planning and analysis.
Ability to create and execute the plan to increase profitability and reduce costs.
Must have significant experience creating and executing an overall corporate plan including budgeting, financial analysis, M&A, corporate strategy, and accounting to help the company grow revenues.
Must have significant experience packaging and presenting financial and company information to board members and potential investors.
You will be someone with strong customer presentation skills including PowerPoint is required.
Also, business and revenue modeling with Excel is required.
The new CFO must ensure compliance with both U.S., French and Australian regulations.
Must have significant equity fund raising experience in the venture capital and private equity arena including investor relations.
Must be someone who enjoys the entrepreneurial atmosphere of a small company but has been through the experience of scaling up an enterprise to significant organization size and revenues.
The ideal candidates will have gone through the high growth and scalability issues of a startup or high growth stage company AND worked at a Fortune 500 company.

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