VP of Finance

About the Position

As the VP of Finance, you'll be an integral part of the leadership team efficiently scaling a finance organization of a growing business with the mission of becoming a $500mil revenue company. You will lead the management and oversight of financial planning, internal financial and operational metrics reporting, finance-business partnerships, and related operational aspects of the business. This role encompasses the company's annual planning process, monthly and quarterly re-forecasting, management and Board reporting, and financial partnership to the organization. You should be an inspiring people leader, a strong cross-functional collaborator, an outstanding communicator, detailed operator and strategic thinker. You will have the ability to understand long-term strategies and translate them into actionable, motivating, and measurable objectives. You will understand how data can be used as an asset and competitive differentiator. You will have a growth mindset and will continuously learn and adapt the way you work. You will lead, inspire, and develop a team of passionate financial professionals excited to grow their careers and to make an impact.

The position reports to the CFO and will be a key participant in driving the success of the business.

Position Responsibilities

• Lay a solid base of financial planning that drives company performance and lead core processes such as long-range planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasts.
• Develop internal financial reporting and commentary that provides senior leaders with timely insights into trends, operational results, and growth drivers.
• Build and foster strong relationships across the business. Help the company understand how all the pieces fit together and drive performance.
• Create systems and processes that enhance financial rigor, enable more thinking and less data manipulation.
• Provide strong financial modeling and analytical support for strategic growth projects, new product development, long-term contracts, and other business initiatives.
• Be responsible for the processes related to operational metric review across different levels of the business
• Handle cross-functional business initiatives and build project execution quality within the team.
• Other duties and projects assigned

Skills and Qualifications

• Must have strong attention to detail, and the ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction, follow-up on own initiative
• Good communication and interpersonal skills as well as good working knowledge of Microsoft products (Excel, Word) and data base applications.
• Strong M&A experience
• Professional level PowerPoint skills
• Individual must be collaborative self-starter with good problem-solving skills and ability to interact positively and successfully with all levels of the company.

Experience

• 15+ years in accounting and/or finance organizations in the tech industry
• 5+ years with experience leading/running global teams

Why Work for WatchGuard?

At WatchGuard we create smart security, simply done. We're a leader in building cyber security hardware, wireless, and cloud solutions that protect small and midsize businesses, and distributed enterprises worldwide. Our award-winning network security solutions provide layered, enterprise-grade protection that is easy to deploy and manage. Whether you are an industry veteran, or at the beginning of your career, now is an amazing time to work in the security industry, and there's never been a better time to be at WatchGuard.

We love solving the industry's toughest challenges, and our innovation keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers, which has fueled record revenues. We're heavily reinvesting in the company and driving rapid acceleration across all aspects of our business. As a result, our employee base has nearly doubled in the last three years, organically and through acquisition.

Our company culture places intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our core values: accountability, passion for success, community building, and maintaining a customer focus in all things.

WatchGuard Technologies is privately backed by equity firms Vector Capital and Francisco Partners, and has headquarters in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees, regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, age, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, mental or physical disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy is to focus solely on the talent, hard work, contributions and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee, and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristic rather than on talent, hard work and actual work results to be a violation of our EEO policy.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-Verify.