Director of Finance, Business Partnering

Amplitude is the pioneer in digital optimization software. More than 1,400 customers, including Atlassian, Instacart, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to power their digital products. Amplitude makes product data accessible to every member of an organization, empowering them to make data-driven decisions that fuel faster product innovation and growth. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

We are looking for a Director of Finance, Business Partnering to lead the Company’s finance business partnerships with our GTM and R&D leadership teams. It is a critical and highly visible role within FP&A where you will be responsible for helping shape the strategy and execution of our GTM footprint and R&D initiatives.  You will be the key bridge between the businesses functions and the broader finance team by helping intermediate multiple perspectives to align the business and empower healthy growth and scale. You will be a good fit if you have strong familiarity with how companies operate end to end, have demonstrated leadership in helping frame and model open ended-strategic questions, have experience working with multiple lines of business within a SaaS environment, and are a skilled communicator with a history of building relationships and trust with senior leadership.  The position will report to the Vice President of Finance.  

As the Director of Finance, Business Partnering, you will: 

• Be a critical driver of helping frame strategic, open-ended questions from a financial perspective by working cross functionally
• Be the financial partner to the GTM and R&D teams in helping shape the strategy and execution of our sales, marketing, customer success, and R&D organizations by balancing growth imperatives with expense controls to efficiently scale the company.
• Drive annual operating plans (incl. sales & customer success capacity, incentive compensation planning, and pipeline coverage), quarterly and monthly financial forecasts, and ongoing analysis of performance and investment to highlight trends, opportunities, and causes of unexpected variances. 
• Prepare management reporting for leadership to analyze results and present forecasts, author clear narratives that describe business strategy and performance, assess business risk and operating health and align cross functional teams to effective solutions. 
• Own the administration, calculation and reporting of incentive compensation with partnership from the revenue operations and accounting teams.
• Work closely with sales and marketing on the assumptions driving our demand generation and overall sales pipeline
• Recruit, develop, and manage a team of financial leaders.

 Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, business, economics, or other relevant field.
• 8+ years of finance or related experience and at least 5+ years of direct GTM finance experience within SaaS.
• Track record of helping shape GTM and R&D organizations and proven ability to partner with senior leadership.
• Strong financial acumen (e.g., a good understanding of financial statements, accounting, FP&A processes, ASC 606 & 340, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; capable of communicating complex information in an easy to understand format and adept at calibrating the message based on your audience.
• Advanced Office and Google application skills (Excel/Sheets, Word/Docs, PowerPoint/Slides) and proficiency with using different systems to retrieve and analyze data.

 To stand out:

• Demonstrated ability of helping solve open-ended strategic initiatives.
• Enterprise SaaS experience.
• Public company FP&A experience.
• Experience with Anaplan as well as Netsuite or other ERP systems.

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, delicious in-office lunch, dinner, & snacks, commuting benefits, a 12-week parental leave, a generous Learning & Development stipend, and a full 10 year window to exercise your stock options. 

The Product: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform– we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive. 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• Twenty of the Fortune 100 are now customers of Amplitude as are innovative brands such as Atlassian, Twitter, FuboTV, and Thredup.
• We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on all your numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

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