Portfolio Practice

​THE SEARCH: 

Altus Partners are delighted to be partnered with a Private Equity backed B2B SaaS organisation based in London. They are a market-leading organisation in their field with established international clients and consistent growth across the group, both organically and through their successful buy & build strategy. The company is now seeking an FP&A Director to upstream the finance dialogue and data presentation to the investors, along with partnering the CFO on all future transaction activity. This is a new role that will help to co-ordinate and analyse the strategic direction and performance of the group. This position will suit someone from transaction services in practice looking to move into a private equity backed environment, or an experienced FP&A leader within a PE backed SaaS business.

THE ROLE: 

• Build and develop the international FP&A function

• Lead on all data presentation and commercial insight to the board and investors

• Support the business planning cycle, to ensure alignment of forecasting and budgeting with a longer-term strategic plan

• Ownership of the financial components of vendor diligence processes to support corporate transactions

• Analysis and insight into all aspects of business performance  

• Interaction with the broader finance team to interpret a complex range of data points

• Concise and impactful presentation of Key Performance Indicators to the executive team, investors and lenders

• Drive the appropriate data structures from corporate systems to support the analysis and modelling referred to above

• Performing sensitivity analysis as required  

• Modelling to assist with transaction/M&A activity

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THE REQUIREMENTS: 

• Fully qualified ACA

• Ideally a Transaction Services exposure from a top tier accountancy firm at Senior Manager level

• Prior SaaS/ARR experience is highly beneficial

• Exposure to a high growth technology led environment

• Exit or transaction experience is beneficial