Growth-Stage SaaS CFO: Strategy, Growth & M&A Leader

SolomonEdwards

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 350,000 - 700,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

CFO’s Domain, a Solomon Edwards Company, is recruiting a Chief Financial Officer for a growth-stage SaaS business in New York. The role partners with the CEO, founders, and Board to shape strategic financial priorities and the capital agenda.

This senior leadership position drives value through investment decisions, liquidity planning, and strategic transactions. The CFO will lead investor relations, board communications, and M&A activities, while shaping pricing, GTM economics, and headcount

Qualifications

10 to 12+ years of progressive experience across private equity, growth equity, investment banking, M&A, strategic finance, and/or senior finance leadership.
Meaningful experience within high-growth B2B software, SaaS, vertical software, or another recurring-revenue technology company required.
Strong investor/buyer perspective, with demonstrated ability to evaluate businesses through the lens of valuation, return potential, and strategic outcomes.
Experience participating in a successful acquisition, sale, financing, recapitalization, or other significant strategic transaction strongly preferred.
Direct experience with Board relations, investor communications, fundraising, and/or sale processes.
Hands-on M&A or corporate development experience, including diligence, financial evaluation, transaction execution, and integration.
Strong understanding of SaaS economics, including recurring revenue, retention, churn, gross margin, customer acquisition economics, and cash efficiency.
Demonstrated ability to influence decisions beyond Finance, particularly around pricing, headcount, product investment, GTM strategy, and sales compensation.
Experience developing and executing value-creation and capital-allocation strategies within a growth-stage organization.
Strong understanding of financial reporting, revenue recognition, controls, audit readiness, and transaction diligence.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with the CEO, founders, and Board to define and execute the company’s financial and strategic priorities.
Develop the company’s value-creation roadmap, identifying the financial, operational, and commercial drivers most likely to increase long-term enterprise value.
Evaluate the business through an investor and potential buyer lens and help position the company for future financing, strategic transactions, or other liquidity events.
Own capital strategy, including financing alternatives, liquidity planning, investment priorities, and capital allocation.
Lead Board and investor communications, including performance reporting, strategic analysis, financial narrative, and supporting materials.
Maintain transaction and diligence readiness across financial reporting, revenue recognition, controls, corporate records, and other key finance areas.
Lead M&A and corporate development activities, including opportunity evaluation, diligence, financial analysis, negotiation support, transaction execution, and integration.
Provide an independent financial perspective on pricing, headcount, product investment, go-to-market strategy, sales compensation, and resource allocation.
Partner with commercial leadership on growth economics, pricing, customer economics, sales productivity, and revenue optimization.
Monitor key SaaS and recurring-revenue metrics and translate financial and operating data into actionable recommendations for executive leadership.
Determine how the Finance organization should scale, including the appropriate mix of internal resources, outsourced providers, systems, automation, and specialized support.
Oversee treasury, cash management, liquidity, and capital preservation while maintaining appropriate financial discipline and controls.