SVP Finance & Operations

Arsenault; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in San Antonio is seeking a strategic executive to partner with the CEO and oversee growth across finance, legal, and operations. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of finance experience, including roles as CFO or SVP in a SaaS environment. Responsibilities include developing budgets, leading teams, and preparing board materials for fundraising. This position offers the opportunity to shape the company's strategy and support its global expansion efforts.

Qualifications

• Former role as CFO or SVP of Finance + Operations of a private SaaS company.
• 10+ years of finance experience, with 5+ years at SaaS startups.
• Experience leading financial audits and preparing financial statements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the strategic plan and budgets for the company.
• Serve as a communication arm for the CEO to clients and stakeholders.
• Lead the financial rigor to close books quickly and generate reports.

Skills

Financial analysis

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Data-driven decision making

Job description

About The Company

Arsenault is a leading, full‑lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own.

Arsenault is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Your Impact

In this role you will serve as a business partner to the CEO and the executive team responsible for driving growth of the company. You will oversee finance, legal, people and operations of the company and help formulate the company's business strategy as we scale.

The Opportunity

In this role you will be a core member of the leadership team of Arsenault. As a strategic business partner to the CEO and other members of the leadership team you will be essential to the performance of the company in the following ways:

• Develop and own the strategic plan, budgets and forecasts for the company.
• You will own the goals for the company and the accountability across the organization for hitting those goals.
• Building the yearly operating plan for the business and projecting that out 3-5 years into the future to align the executive team and the board of directors on where the company is going.
• Empower the team to make data driven decisions by monitoring metrics across the organization and keeping key stakeholders up to speed on the growth drivers behind those metrics.
• You attract a talented team to drive growth of the legal, finance, people and operations functions.
• Serve as an additional communication arm on behalf of the CEO for clients and major stakeholders.
• Aid the CEO in future fundraising initiatives.
• Own the international expansion of offices and locations to support our growth.
• Assist in analyzing M&A targets and carrying out other corporate development activities.
• Maintaining our information systems for accounting, ERM, CRM, and KPIs.
• Drive the financial rigor to close books quickly and generate reporting from them to operate the business.
• Efficiently leverage internal & outside legal, people and financial resources to optimize efficiency of operations while minimizing overall spend.
• Lead the creation of board materials and have a strong communication ongoing dialogue with the board about the performance of the business.
• Keep non-board investors informed on the state of the business.
• Support the growth of the culture and performance of the company.

Requirements

• Former role as CFO or SVP of Finance + Operations of a private SaaS company.
• Previous experience overseeing finance, legal, people and operations teams.
• 10+ years of finance experience.
• 5+ years of experience at SaaS startups.
• Experience leading yearly financial audits, 409A valuations and preparing 3‑statement financials.
• Experience preparing board materials and data rooms for fundraising activities.
• Experience providing strategic analysis of tradeoffs for legal, financial and people risks to the business.