Make Your Mark:
Looking to amplify your impact to the business? BlackLine is seeking an agile and technically strong Director, Product & Technology Finance to partner with our Product, Engineering, and Cloud teams to maximize ROI across our R&D portfolio and build out unit economics to provide cost transparency. In this role, you will have the ability to influence management decisions, lead change, and challenge the status quo as BlackLine continues to scale for growth. You will also become the resident finance expert on our product and technology portfolio supported by 1-2 direct reports. This is a hybrid role (currently 2 days/week) located in Pleasanton, California with occasional travel to our Woodland Hills office.
You'll Get To:
- Build ROI rationalization and portfolio metrics for products and technologies in close collaboration with product owners, engineering leaders, technologists, and business operations.
- Drive successful business case analysis to prioritize and fund the highest impact functionality and technology modernization to enable faster long-term feature development.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to create annual operating budgets, regular forecasts, and long-term strategic operating plans.
- Prepare presentation materials in support of Monthly Reporting Packages, Quarterly Business Reviews, and Executive/Board level presentations.
- Ensure disciplined financial management through real-time review of expenses and resource allocations; provide insights to business levers to improve roadmap outcomes.
- Collaborate with other finance and accounting teammates on the development and maintenance of our next generation financial framework.
- Manage and mentor 1-2 direct reports and help build and develop a nimble, high caliber Finance team.
- Run the Product & Technology Finance team calendar with focus on value delivery.
What You'll Bring:
Years of Experience in Related Field:
- 7+ years of proven experience in a finance, accounting, consulting, or related business function.
- Experience supporting SAAS Product R&D organizations or SAAS Product GMs.
Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of top line SAAS metrics and SAAS accounting principles – revenue recognition, ARR, Net Dollar Retention, CAC, etc.
- Experience building models that balance multiple variables and alternate ways of viewing the business, both for bottoms-up driver-based models and tops-down market-driven models.
- Analytical, communication, and influencing skills.
- Finance system proficiency.
- Bachelor’s degree in a business function such as accounting or finance.
We’re Even More Excited If You Have:
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the attitude to deliver and think ahead.
- Proven experience driving large initiatives and change forward while being seen as a partner.
- Fortitude to collaborate cross-functionally and problem solve how to meet various stakeholders’ needs in order to drive execution of large initiatives, taking others along rather than forcing initiatives on others.
- Ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment.
- Experience in finance business partnership, particularly supporting private cloud, public cloud teams, and platform engineering teams.
- Experience with full P&L modeling including allocation methodology analysis and support.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
Salary Range: USD $175,000.00 - USD $233,000.00
