Finance Business Partner
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Finance Business Partner owning reporting, ARR validation, budgeting, and forecasting for Digital Science’s research-technology business. Advising senior leaders across Academic/GFN, Sales, and Marketing.
Responsibilities:
- Own the numbers for the Academic/GFN segment and Sales and Marketing teams
- Review monthly financial accounts, identify material corrections, and explain key variances
- Provide business-context commentary on results and highlight required actions
- Produce monthly reporting for each business area and hold stakeholders accountable for agreed actions
- Understand monthly revenue and ensure reported revenue aligns with sales activity
- Validate reported ARR by working with the business and understanding sales activity
- Identify performance issues such as delayed renewals
- Understand the status and lifecycle of non-recurring revenue
- Lead cost, revenue, and headcount forecasting and budgeting
- Explain business changes using charts, tables, and waterfalls
- Challenge cost growth and hiring assumptions to build robust forecasts
- Provide monthly expected landing positions and early warnings
- Ensure segment allocations are accurate and explainable
- Support pricing strategies, business cases, trends, accounting treatment, and other business questions through analysis and financial models
- Improve ways of working, output, and efficiency
- Share best practices with the wider team
- Own issues through satisfactory resolution
- Identify opportunities for systems-based control and automation
- Partner with senior leaders including the EVP of Academic/GFN and Chief Revenue Officer
Requirements:
- Finance business partnering experience across both cost and revenue areas
- Experience delivering discrete budgets and forecasts for specific business areas, on time and to target
- Sound understanding of ARR, sales processes and revenue recognition principles
- Ability to work with imperfect data and still reach robust conclusions
- Strong modeling and analytical skills
- Ability to turn granular data into clear, decision-useful recommendations
- Ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders and challenge them
- Driven, inquisitive and collaborative, with initiative and a strong sense of ownership
- Professional finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or CPA), or 5+ years of relevant experience
- Candidates must reside in the USA
- Experience in a SaaS business (desirable)
- Experience with NetSuite and Anaplan (desirable)
Benefits:
- Investment in, nurturing, and support of innovative businesses and technologies
- Equal opportunity employment
- Inclusive workplace culture where every individual feels valued and belongs
- Diverse and collaborative work environment
- Fully remote work arrangement
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