CFO - SaaS - Data Governance - Paris / San Francisco

Saul & Partners Executive Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading executive search firm is seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for an international technology company. The role involves building a global financial strategy, managing financial forecasting, and advising the CEO on long-term planning. Ideal candidates must have significant experience as a CFO in SaaS or similar sectors, with the ability to navigate multicultural environments and possess strong strategic planning skills. This opportunity offers a competitive salary, including a six-figure base, bonus, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Recent and significant experience as a CFO in technology companies, particularly in SaaS or Cloud.
• Fluency in French and English.
• Experience with financial audits, budgeting, and strategic corporate planning.
• Strong skills in validating numbers and creating financial forecasts.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a global financial strategy.
• Manage processes for financial forecasting and budgets.
• Advising the CEO on long-term business planning.
• Develop relationships with senior management and external stakeholders.

Skills

Strategic planning

Financial analysis

Budgeting systems

Presentation skills (PowerPoint)

Business modeling (Excel)

Multicultural sensitivity

Job description

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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