Finance Director
4 days ago
New York
Who is Sonar Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile. We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily. We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals. At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations. Why You Should Apply: At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties. We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster. The Impact You Will Have We are seeking a highly motivated Finance Director to join our FP&A team. This critical role will be responsible for overseeing various aspects within FP&A including long-range planning business analytics and business partnership. • Strategic Business Partnering & Execution, • Serve as the primary financial advisor to the R&D and G&A executive leaders, • Act as a senior playerbuilding complex scalable financial models from scratch while translating R&D and G&A roadmaps back to the Corporate Long-Range Plan (LRP)., • Drive the annual planning and monthly forecasting cycles for all R&D and G&A functions providing executive-level variance analysis and actionable insights directly to the C-suite., • Develop and maintain complex financial models across all lines of the P&L to support strategic initiatives new business opportunities and scenario planning., • Own the financial strategy for a geographically distributed organization optimizing headcount planning/hiring ratios, • Partner with Accounting and Engineering to track model and forecast software capitalization, • Provide analytical oversight for a high-volume G&A environment (IT Facilities Legal HR) identifying operating leverage opportunities to ensure OPEX scales slower than revenue., • Lead mentor and orchestrate the day-to-day priorities of shared FP&A analysts through dotted-line relationships. Drive execution and high-quality output through influence rather than direct reporting authority., • Roll up your sleeves as the business lead for R&D/G&A during our system migration. Lead the evolution of our FP&A capabilities by driving initiatives to enhance automation efficiency and data-driven insights within the finance function., • 10 years of progressive experience in finance preferably with significant time spent in a high-growth SaaS or tech environment., • Bachelors degree in Finance Economics Accounting or a related field., • Expert-level financial modeling skills with the ability to build sophisticated flexible and accurate models from the ground up., • Proven ability to communicate and present complex financial concepts and recommendations clearly to executive-level stakeholders., • Deep expertise across core FP&A functions including corporate finance strategic planning budgeting and variance analysis., • Technical Depth: Deep understanding of software capitalization rules cloud infrastructure economics and complex headcount modeling., • Systems: Elite Excel skills are mandatory. Experience implementing or operating in modern planning tools (Pigment Anaplan Adaptive) is a major plus., • A proactive adaptable mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic and rapidly evolving environment., • MBA from a top-tier program., • Investment Banking experience., • Hands-on experience with enterprise-level planning software (e.g. NetSuite and HRIS systems (like BambooHR)., • Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!)., • Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains., • We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely., • We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them., • As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members., • We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization., • Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package., • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date) with additional time provided for sickness life events and holidays., • We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match fully vested on day one of participation., • Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities., • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company. Required Experience: Director Key Skills Accounting Software,Forecasting,Ellucian,Financial Report Writing,GAAP,Accounting,Corporate Finance,Financial Analysis,Financial Modeling,Budgeting,Financial Management,Financial Planning Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1