Head of FP&A

The Phrase Platform combines AI, agentic orchestration, and a headless, API-first architecture in one composable system. Beyond translation, it orchestrates and adapts content to culture, audience, channel, brand voice, and intended outcome in any language, for every audience. It applies the context that makes content perform in every market: quality standards, glossaries, prior translations, and cultural nuance. Every team, in every region, can ship content that is on-brand, on-point, and ready for any audience.

Phrase gives enterprises the intelligence to automate workflows, the freedom to connect their own tools and engines, and the control to govern global content at scale.

With a global team based in our offices, and remote colleagues across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region, Phrase offers an international environment built on collaboration, innovation, and shared purpose.

This is a hands-on FP&A position in a lean, AI-first Finance team. You’ll own core budgeting and forecasting cycles and build the analytical infrastructure for decision-making across the business. The role sits inside Finance and partners closely with the RTR function and the Finance Director, while also working directly with commercial, GTM, and other business functions as the analytical bridge between Finance and the rest of the organization.

The Finance function at Phrase has been independently validated for data integrity, analytical depth, and reporting sophistication by Big Four teams working on transactions well above our scale. The baseline is strong. What we are looking for is someone who sees that as a starting point, not a ceiling.

This role reports directly to the CFO, who brings a background in private equity and has led Finance at Phrase for six years.

• Above-market compensation, benchmarked to reflect the seniority, scope, and impact of the role
• Real FP&A ownership: Finance at Phrase has genuine influence over how capital is allocated, not just how it is reported
• A finance infrastructure already validated for data quality by Big Four teams on large-scale transactions; you are building from a strong baseline, not fixing a weak one
• Guaranteed C-suite access and direct involvement in M&A, investment round preparation, and transaction reporting
• A genuine AI-native building opportunity: one of your core deliverables is rebuilding our bottom-up budgeting process as AI-first tooling, designed and owned by Finance
• Company-wide visibility from day one: you work directly with every budget owner across the business, which means real influence and real accountability

• Own the annual budgeting process and rolling forecast across all functions: P&L, headcount, ARR bridge, and cash flow
• Maintain and continuously improve the core financial model suite; build new models as business needs evolve
• Produce monthly actuals-vs-budget variance analysis with a clear narrative for the CFO and leadership
• Drive headcount planning and workforce cost modeling across a distributed, multi-jurisdiction team

• Own the reconciliation between statutory financial statements and management accounts across multiple legal entities
• Maintain integrity across both reporting views, keeping the bridge between statutory and management accounts clean, traceable, and auditable
• Identify and close reporting gaps; treat this as a foundational deliverable, not a periodic exercise

• Partner with Revenue and GTM leadership on pipeline-to-ARR analytics, capacity planning, quota modeling, and deal economics
• Model the financial impact of pricing and packaging changes, including our transition to credit-based pricing
• Support strategic planning, scenario analysis, and resource allocation decisions with structured financial frameworks
• Contribute to M&A diligence processes, investment round/transaction preparation, and management presentations

• Build and maintain board pack materials with an executive-ready financial narrative
• Support PE sponsor reporting cadence and manage data requests from the investment team
• Produce investor-grade outputs independently: clear assumptions, traceable logic, no hand-holding required

• Build and maintain automated reporting workflows, using AI tools and available data infrastructure
• Operate across our finance tech stack: NetSuite, Chargebee, Salesforce, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot, Payhawk, Upflow, Clari, and others
• Identify gaps in financial data quality and close them, in partnership with the BI and data engineering team
• Be a practitioner of AI-assisted finance workflows, not just an advocate

• Reporting integrity that stands up to Big Four scrutiny on any transaction, delivered as a repeatable standard rather than a one-time effort
• Materially faster time to insight: leadership gets high-quality answers faster, and the Finance team spends less time on production and more on analysis
• A bottom-up budgeting process rebuilt as AI-native tooling, co-designed with Finance, and genuinely usable by every budget owner across the business
• Change management executed well: budget owners understand the process, engage with it as a real planning tool, and trust the numbers that come out of it

Non-negotiables

• Full business fluency in English, written and spoken; we are an English-first business
• 6+ years of FP&A or finance business partnering experience in a SaaS or technology business
• Deep, proven command of budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling built from scratch
• Strong understanding of finance and accounting standards, including IFRS; qualified accountant preferred but not required
• Fluency across both formal statutory reporting (IFRS, multi-entity) and business-focused management accounts, with the rigor to maintain a clean, auditable reconciliation between them
• Genuine data literacy: you find the error before the analysis breaks, not after
• An open, curious mindset toward AI-assisted ways of working; Phrase operates at the frontier of AI-native finance, and most organizations are not there yet. Analytical excellence and technical instincts matter more than prior hands-on experience with AI tools. We will bring the right person on that journey.
• High affinity for software tooling and automation; you build or automate rather than tolerating repetition
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you make assumptions explicit, move forward, and course-correct
• Investor and operator mindset on resource allocation: you think in return-on-spend terms, not budget variance
• Based in Prague or the Czech Republic (strongly preferred); must be based in Europe with CET-adjacent hours

Tech stack: specific experience that matters

We run on NetSuite (Oracle) as our ERP, with Zone & Company SuiteApps for bank reconciliation and document capture. Experience with NetSuite is a significant advantage and will meaningfully accelerate your ramp. Familiarity with Chargebee (our billing platform), Salesforce, ThoughtSpot, Snowflake, Payhawk, Upflow, and Clari is relevant. You don’t need to know all of them, but comfort in a complex, multi-tool finance stack is essential.

Strong pluses

• NetSuite experience, especially in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment
• Some exposure to SQL or Python; the ability to pull your own data or sanity-check a query without routing everything through the data team is a genuine advantage, but not a barrier to entry
• Hands-on SaaS metrics experience: ARR, NRR, GRR, CAC, LTV, logo and revenue churn, cohort analysis
• Experience in a PE-backed business and familiarity with sponsor reporting cadence and transaction processes
• M&A experience: diligence support, data room preparation, integration financial modeling
• Experience with global, distributed teams across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions
• Pricing model analytics, particularly complex or usage-based pricing structures
• Clari or similar revenue intelligence platform experience

You’ll be joining a small Finance team with a clear mandate: operate at a higher standard than a business of this size would normally expect. We use AI tools to compress the time between question and answer. We build internal tools when the commercial market doesn’t solve our problem. We’re measured on the quality and speed of our analytical output, not on process adherence.

Phrase is a fully remote company with no office presence requirements. European timezone is the only hard location constraint. If you are based in Prague or open to it, there is a modern office in the city centre where the CFO is based, available whenever you want it.

Phrase is committed to ensuring equal pay for equal work and work of equal value between women and men. Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and that each worker feels respected and able to give their best. The job requirements and salary range for this job have been established through a gender-neutral job evaluation and classification process. This process objectively assesses the skills, responsibility, effort and working conditions required for each job. This systematic approach ensures fair pay regardless of who performs the work. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their sex, race or ethnicity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

We value and welcome different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds as we believe that these differences make our team even stronger on our mission of opening the door to global business by giving everybody access to the content they need in the language they speak.