FP&A Director

About Us:

VAST Data is revolutionizing the AI data infrastructure landscape by enabling organizations to unlock radical intelligence and utility through innovative, simple, and transparent solutions. We’re on a mission to build the only data platform that can match the ambition of AI-era companies, and we need exceptional talent to achieve our vision.

Summary:

We are seeking a proactive and strategic FP&A Director to drive our corporate FP&A efforts and contribute to building out a high rigor, high performing, scaled FP&A function.  The ideal candidate will bring deep strategic, analytical, modeling and communication skills as well as public company experience and a builder’s mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and own corporate top-line model for VAST, for use in forecasting, planning and scenario analysis
• Own the Annual Planning process, resulting in publication of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).  This includes refining the approach, managing stakeholder inputs, conducting analytics and ultimately synthesizing into the operating plan
• Develop and own the Long Range Plan (LRP), published alongside the AOP and containing the multi-year outlook for the company that is grounded in our vision, strategy and market view, contains key milestones and provides a long term roadmap for the company
• Work with key FP&A colleagues and business partners to drive ongoing improvement in forecasting and continually refine our aggregated forecast
• Contribute to ongoing management and board reporting, including strategic insight, analytics and clear, concise storytelling
• Work with FP&A colleagues to implement and improve systems and tools
• Work with Data colleagues to ensure data hygiene, develop and operationalize key metrics and drive automation
• Conduct special projects and ad-hoc analytics to support operating priorities, investor relations efforts and other key initiatives as needed
• Develop and maintain close working relationships across the finance team and company

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field.  MBA preferred though not required
• 8+ years of experience, ideally with early background in investment banking, PE/Growth or consulting followed by progressive roles in corporate FP&A, preferably in a high growth tech company
• Exceptional modeling skills, and experience developing and maintaining three-sheet models for complex businesses in high growth, highly dynamic markets.  Adept with relevant tools including Excel, Sheets, VBA, SQL, SFDC, NetSuite, etc.
• Outstanding communications skills, with experience preparing, presenting and communicating with executives, investors and sophisticated business audiences.  Strong ‘storytelling with data’ skills are key
• Highly driven with a strong ownership mentality.  Pragmatic and willing to ‘roll up sleeves’
• High quality bar and detail orientation, along with excellent business judgment
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with ability to accomplish complex objectives in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment
• Excited about AI, and passionate about building a landmark, generational tech company