Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview

This role leads enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and provides executive decision support across planning, forecasting, performance management, and commercial analytics. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis oversees a global FP&A team and is responsible for Revenue Operations and Sales Incentive Administration, supporting forecasting, pipeline visibility, and sales incentive operations.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead the global FP&A function, including annual operating plans, long-range planning, monthly and quarterly forecasting, financial modeling, management reporting, and performance analysis.
• Drive a disciplined planning cadence to provide timely visibility into revenue, margin, expense, cash flow, headcount, productivity, and investment performance.
• Partner with the CFO and executive leadership to evaluate business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve financial outcomes.
• Develop and continuously improve forecasting models, reporting frameworks, KPI dashboards, and executive-level financial insights.
• Lead variance analysis, scenario planning, resource allocation reviews, and business case development for strategic initiatives, organizational investments, and productivity opportunities.

Executive Finance Partnership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of finance partners supporting executive leaders and their organizations.
• Ensure each function has strong financial partnership, clear budget ownership, timely performance visibility, and practical insights for decision-making.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by translating financial data into operational implications, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Support executive operating reviews, business reviews, board-related materials, and reporting requirements with clear, accurate, decision-oriented analysis.
• Strengthen financial accountability through improved budget discipline, investment governance, and visibility into ROI.

Revenue Operations, Commercial Analytics & Data Governance

• Lead Revenue Operations capabilities for commercial reporting, analytics, pipeline visibility, forecast support, and sales productivity insights.
• Partner with Commercial, Finance, Business Transformation, and Systems teams to improve forecasting accuracy, pipeline management, commercial operating rhythms, and data quality.
• Own governance for commercial data used in forecasting, pipeline analysis, bookings reporting, sales incentive processes, and executive decision-making.
• Drive scalable reporting and analytics supporting sales leadership, revenue planning, territory and quota analysis, bookings performance, and commercial productivity.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve commercial reporting while strengthening confidence in underlying data.

Sales Incentive Administration & Plan Design Support

• Lead the Sales Incentive Administration team responsible for calculating sales incentive commissions and administering plan designs across commercial team members.
• Ensure incentive calculations are accurate, timely, well-controlled, and aligned to approved plan designs, commercial priorities, and compensation governance requirements.
• Partner with Sales, Finance, HR, Legal, and Revenue Ops on sales incentive design, annual plan changes, policy interpretation, exception management, and communication readiness.
• Establish strong controls, documentation, auditability, and issue-resolution processes for incentive administration.
• Use incentive performance data to inform plan effectiveness, selling behavior, forecast quality, and commercial productivity opportunities.

Leadership, Talent & Operating Discipline

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global team across FP&A, Revenue Operations, and Sales Incentive Administration.
• Create clear priorities, operating rhythms, performance expectations, and development plans that improve service levels and business partnership.
• Model a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, data integrity, collaboration, and execution excellence.
• Apply process discipline and continuous improvement tools to simplify planning, reporting, forecasting, and incentive administration.
• Partner effectively across a global, matrixed organization and influence outcomes through business acumen, credibility, and executive presence.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership experience in FP&A, corporate finance, business finance, or strategic finance roles.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including experience leading managers and/or multi-disciplinary finance and operations teams.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, KPI reporting, and executive-level financial analysis.
• Strong commercial finance experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS, enterprise software, technology, or recurring revenue business model.
• Experience partnering directly with CFOs, executive leadership teams, and functional leaders on financial performance, resource allocation, operating reviews, and strategic decisions.
• Proven ability to lead global teams and operate effectively in a matrixed, fast-paced, performance-oriented environment.
• Strong understanding of revenue forecasting, pipeline management, commercial analytics, bookings reporting, quota attainment, and sales productivity drivers.
• Experience with sales incentive plans, commission administration, sales compensation governance, or close partnership with Sales Compensation/Revenue Operations teams.
• Advanced financial modeling, analytical, and systems skills; experience with ERP, EPM, CRM, BI, and reporting platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Oracle, Workday Adaptive, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, or similar tools.
• Exceptional communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial and operational information into clear business recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field required.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or other relevant advanced degree or certification.
• Experience in a Fortive, Danaher, or similar operating environment with exposure to continuous improvement, operating reviews, and KPI-driven management.
• Experience supporting a global software, SaaS, data, analytics, or technology-enabled services business.
• Familiarity with sales incentive plan design, commercial compensation governance, and cross-functional plan administration.
• Experience improving finance and commercial reporting through automation, data governance, analytics platforms, or enterprise data architecture.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range (local currency): 145,500.00 - 270,600.00

Location

Austin, TX (preferred) or Remote, United States