VP/SVP Finance

Location: Remote

Company

Backstory, formerly hirify.global, is an AI answers platform for sales teams serving enterprise customers across software, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and defense.

What you will do

• Lead Finance end to end across FP&A, accounting, cash management, treasury, reporting, and financial strategy.
• Own annual budgets, scenario models, rolling forecasts, plan-to-actual reporting, and financial guidance for the CEO, executive team, board, and investors.
• Partner with Product on pricing and packaging, subscription and usage forecasting, revenue recognition, SaaS metrics, and gross-margin governance.
• Support enterprise deal economics, including non-standard terms, discount governance, contract review, sales compensation, billing, and collections.
• Oversee monthly close, GAAP financials, internal controls, AP, AR, payroll, tax compliance, auditors, and tax advisors.
• Lead a lean Finance team and build scalable finance systems, BI and reporting tools, headcount planning, and close processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, currently as an SVP of Finance or as a VP of Finance ready to step up.
• Experience across the whole finance function, with significant FP&A depth and a track record of connecting planning to business operations.
• Experience at a productized enterprise B2B software company with $50M–$100M ARR, using a subscription or platform model, larger enterprise deals, and ARR-based management.
• Experience taking a business from cash-flow neutral to growing cash flow, rather than pursuing growth at all costs or managing only to gross margin and opex.
• Track record of building Finance teams and assessing talent across accounting, FP&A, treasury, and AP/AR.
• Fluency in SaaS metrics and their connection to financial performance.
• Hands-on ownership of monthly close, GAAP reporting, internal controls, and revenue recognition under ASC 606.
• Experience managing external auditors, tax advisors, and banking relationships.
• Player-coach leadership, clear financial communication, collaborative executive partnership, and the ability to support a team through a leadership transition.

Nice to have

• Experience in revtech or CRM.
• Experience with hybrid subscription-and-usage models and variable-revenue predictability.
• Understanding of AI and cloud cost structures and their impact on gross margin.
• Active involvement in a strategic exit before, during, and after close.
• Experience supporting a capital raise or debt facility.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote workplace.
• Hands-on, player-coach Finance leadership in a lean team.
• Finance operates as a partner to growth functions rather than a gatekeeper.
• Opportunity to work with the CEO, executive team, board, investors, Sales, Customer, Marketing, Product, People, and external advisors.