SVP, Finance

The SVP, Finance is a critical leadership role within the Finance department, responsible for providing strategic guidance and financial insights that support the company's growth and financial health. The role will lead the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis processes, ensuring that the company makes informed decisions to drive performance and shareholder value.

Prodege:

A cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform, Prodege has charted a course of innovation in the evolving technology landscape by helping leading brands, marketers, and agencies uncover the answers to their business questions, acquire new customers, increase revenue, and drive brand loyalty & product adoption. Bolstered by a major investment by Great Hill Partners in Q4 2021 and strategic acquisitions of Pollfish, BitBurst & AdGate Media in 2022, Prodege looks forward to more growth and innovation to empower our partners to gather meaningful, rich insights and better market to their target audiences.

As an organization, we go the extra mile to “Create Rewarding Moments” every day for our partners, consumers, and team. Come join us today

Primary Objectives:

• Financial Strategy and Analysis
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Team Management (Performance Management, Team Leadership and Development)
• Investor Relations and Capital Management
• Process Improvement and Systems Optimization
• Risk Management

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Detailed Job Duties: (typical monthly, weekly, daily tasks which support the primary objectives)

• Financial Strategy and Analysis:
  • Lead the development of the company's financial strategy, aligning with the overall business objectives.
  • Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
  • Provide strategic recommendations based on financial data and market insights.
  • Oversee the creation of complex financial models to support decision-making processes.
  • Prepare and analyze rolling projections for revenue and related financial metrics
  • Conduct financial analysis and reporting, including revenue/expense forecasting and monthly variance analysis
• Budgeting and Forecasting:
  • Direct the annual budgeting process, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
  • Manage the forecasting process, providing accurate and timely updates to the executive team.
  • Develop and maintain multi-year financial plans to support long-term strategic initiatives.
  • Participate in the preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range strategic plans
  • Build and maintain financial models to be used for annual budget cycles
  • Analyze variances between actuals and forecasts and use insights to drive meaningful action and communicate complex issues in a clear and concise way
• Performance Management:
  • Monitor financial performance against strategic goals and budgets.
  • Provide regular financial reporting to the executive team and board of directors.
  • Implement performance metrics and dashboards to track key financial indicators.
  • Expand financial reporting capabilities that provide leadership with key insights about the business and help drive the right business decisions
• Team Leadership and Development:
  • Manage and mentor a team of financial analysts and other finance professionals.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the FP&A team.
  • Ensure the professional development and training of team members.
  • Routinely meet with and present to the CFO and CEO regarding financial performance
• Investor Relations and Capital Markets:
  • Support investor relations activities, including earnings calls, investor presentations, and meetings.
  • Analyze capital market trends and advise on capital structure decisions.
  • Develop materials and reports for investors and analysts.
  • Participate in the preparation of high quality presentations for Management and Board of Directors
  • Perform due diligence analysis on potential M&A targets
• Process Improvement and Systems Optimization:
  • Drive the enhancement of financial systems and tools to improve analysis and reporting capabilities.
  • Implement best practices in FP&A processes to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Risk Management:
  • Identify financial risks and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal policies.
• Additional Management Responsibilities:
  • Performance Management: setting and managing goals, on-going coaching, corrective action, annual reviews, rewards/recognition, and team/individual development
  • Employee Life Cycle Management: headcount forecasting, job descriptions, recruiting/hiring, termination
  • Governance: ensuring compliance to company policy/practice (e.g. attendance, behavior, workplace attire), ensuring compliance to employment law (e.g. time keeping, anti-harassment and diversity)
  • Leadership: ensures availability to staff, team building, building rapport with individuals, encouraging strong collaborative relationships between individuals and departments, facilitating a healthy work/life mix, solicits and applies feedback (internal and external to team), self-improvement as a leader/manager of people
  • Culture Ambassador: proactively demonstrate and cultivate a culture of cooperative collaboration, strong work ethic, solutions-orientation, quality focus, results-orientation, relaxed/enjoyable atmosphere, team- and individual- celebration, and company/product pride

What does SUCCESS look like?

A successful SVP, Finance will begin with humility and curiosity. Our business is nuanced and complicated. The SVP will need to have the self-motivation and initiative to seek any/all opportunities to learn and understand the business. He/she/they will also build strong partnerships at all levels of the organization to inspire trust and faith in the FP&A function and capability. Finally, success will be derived from the ebb and flow of hard work. The person must be able to manage their time, prioritize tasks (their own and others), as well as be focused on the details that others may miss.

The MUST Haves: (ex: job cannot be done without these skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Minimum Years of Experience: 10+ years in financial planning and analysis
• 5 years in a leadership role managing teams
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field is required. An
• MBA, CPA, or CFA
• Experience with multiple mergers and acquisitions
• Public company experience including investor relations
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency in financial software and systems.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and provide actionable insights.
• Experience with investor relations and understanding of capital markets.
• Strategic thinking with a focus on long-term financial planning.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.

The Nice to Haves: (preferred additional skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Private Equity firm experience
• Experience in company with a revenue size of 300+M or more
• Experience in investment banking