Strategic Finance Manager

About Us

Qualio is on a mission to empower life science teams to launch and scale life-saving products. We’re doing that by building a connected and integrated quality management platform for the entire life science ecosystem. Qualio is trusted by over 600 highly regulated international customers, ranging from the bleeding edge of computational biology and machine learning to household names in mRNA vaccine development. 

The Qualio team is all-remote, and currently distributed across North America, Europe and Australia.

What’s the opportunity?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the strategic finance  team as the first dedicated strategic finance hire. There’s potential to advance into a management position and lead the financial planning and analysis function. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working independently and that thrives in a fast-paced start-up environment. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining and updating  our financial model, enhancing financial and operational reporting capabilities and interfacing with senior leadership. We are looking for a teammate who has experience in investment banking, building accurate 3 statement financial models for SaaS business and working with senior leaders on long-term planning. You will play a vital role in data analysis and discovering critical insights to drive growth. The ideal candidate must be data-driven, communicate effectively, work well independently, and have excellent analytical skills. A few years of experience working at a SaaS company and exposure to full cycle financial planning and budgeting is desirable for the role. 

This role is to be performed in Pacific time. 

What will I be doing?

• Drive financial model development by working closely with the VP of finance, the SLT and other stakeholders, and own the ongoing maintenance of the model

• Contribute to the annual budgeting process and rolling forecast refreshes including top of funnel, ARR and revenue forecasting

• Provide functional support on expense and headcount planning to budget owners across the organization

• Update and maintain top and bottom-line forecasts for SaaS bookings, revenue, billings and collections and assist in driving better visibility into all aspects of the forecast model

• Partner closely with key business stakeholders to understand the drivers of the business and perform ad-hoc financial analysis

• Responsible for updating monthly and quarterly variance reporting packages as well as monthly reporting for investors

• Create presentations/dashboards to provide leadership teams with actionable insights including utilizing BI tools such as Looker

• Work extensively with the Finance, Accounting and Revenue Operations Teams to ensure seamless and consistent data by creating and maintaining policies and procedures, including driving awareness of and adherence to Finance policies. 

• Contribute to initiatives to standardize, automate and scale the finance and forecasting  stack as needed to meet the changing needs of our rapidly scaling SaaS business

• Assist with tracking  of commissions plans and mechanics

What skills do I need?

• 2+ years of investment banking and financial modeling experience

• 3+ years of SaaS industry experience, ideally at a high growth startup, in a financial analyst role

• Outstanding skills in developing complex financial models based on well-defined assumptions

• Thorough understanding software industry metrics (bookings, pipeline, ARR, MRR, retention rate, churn, CAC, LTV, etc)

• Experience using ERPs (QuickBooks, NetSuite, Intaact, etc.), EPMs (Anaplan, Adaptive, etc.) and CRM (Salesforce) is a plus

• Proactive, self-sufficient, and organized

Benefits 

• Competitive salary

• Matching 401k

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits

• Dependent & Health FSA, Short/Long Term Disability, Basic & Voluntary Life Insurance

• Unlimited PTO policy

• Company allowance for home office supplies

• 12 weeks paid parental leave

• Opportunity to make a difference through helping life-saving products get to market

A note to candidates:

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every single one of the qualifications as described in a job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company and we are most interested in finding the BEST candidate for the job. That candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background, and that’s okay. We would strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of the qualifications described.