This is a senior, client-facing consulting role. You will work directly with CFOs, VPs of Finance, and FP&A leaders to design, build, and operationalize budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and reporting workflows inside Limelight.
If you’ve lived in FP&A, led planning cycles, built models from scratch, and can confidently run a room with finance leaders — this role is for you.
What You’ll DoClient Leadership & AdvisoryAct as the primary finance advisor for a portfolio of customers during onboarding and beyond
Lead working sessions with CFOs, VPs of Finance, Controllers, and FP&A teams
Translate messy, Excel-heavy planning processes into clean, scalable FP&A workflows
Ask the right finance questions — not just follow a checklist
Design and implement:
Annual budgets and rolling forecasts
Driver-based revenue models
Workforce and headcount planning
Actual vs budget / variance analysis
Board- and exec-ready reporting
Guide customers on best practices, tradeoffs, and design decisions
Ensure solutions are not just built — but adopted
Clearly explain complex financial concepts to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
Manage expectations, timelines, and priorities with senior clients
Confidently present recommendations and push back when needed
Build trust — customers should feel “this person gets our business”
Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Customer Success
Provide feedback to product based on real customer FP&A use cases
Help shape implementation standards and playbooks as Limelight scales
7+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, or finance consulting
Prior client-facing experience (consulting, advisory, or external-facing finance role)
Comfort working directly with CFOs and senior finance leaders
Advanced Excel/financial modeling background (you’ve built real models, not just reviewed them)
Experience implementing or working with FP&A tools or ERPs
Comfortable leading projects without detailed instructions
Education & CredentialsBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (required)
Nice to have certifications CPA or CFA
Top Skills
What We Do
At Limelight, we believe Finance teams should spend more time analyzing data rather than consolidating spreadsheets. Our application, Limelight, empowers the Office of Finance and provides the ability to manage, track and monitor budgeting, planning, and forecasting. Because we start with user experience, Limelight provides an easy way to collect and consolidate data. We then apply intelligence to instantly identify variances, growth opportunities, and business performance. And all this happens in real-time. Limelight was designed with CFOs, Controllers, VP of Finance, and financial analysts in mind.
Specialties
Budgeting, Rolling Forecast, Sales Forecast, HR Planning, Capital Planning, P&L Reporting Packages, Variance Analysis, Consolidations, External Reporting & XBRL
Supported Technologies
IBM Cognos TM1, Oracle Essbase, Microsoft Analysis Services, Microsoft SQL Server, PostegreSQL
