Chief Financial Officer

Are you ready to make some history?!

Foleon is a leading content creation platform, providing business teams with a fast and scalable way to produce highly engaging interactive content experiences. Foleon is headquartered in Amsterdam with teams in London and New York. With 115 FTE, we serve more than 1,200 global brands like EY, Disney, F1, Workday, BCG, Hubspot and more.

We value people who are bold, ambitious, collaborative, and customer-centric. Even better, the ones who know how to work hard, make an impact, while enjoying the journey. We’re a team of highly driven people with a great sense of human connection.

If you’re looking to build your career in an international tech scale-up in an exciting and dynamic category, you’re in the right place.

Your Mission

As a senior executive, it will be your mission to co-navigate the company through the next growth cycle. You’ll have the overall responsibility for the strategic planning, implementation, management, and running of all the finance activities of the company, including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk and governance as well as negotiations. Next to the finance team, you’ll also manage the legal, Revops, and HR teams.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and inspire the Finance and Legal team (later potentially the RevOps and HR team will be added to your responsibilities)

• Manage the financial operations of the company and provide leadership and focus to ensure that they operate efficiently and comply with applicable compliances, laws, and company policies

• Oversee accounting operations (including accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll), financial reporting, and internal controls - ensuring healthy cash flow and smooth operations 

• Responsible for setting up bonus/commission plans and monthly/quarterly bonus/commission calculations

• Lead initiatives to further optimize our profitability and efficient growth

• Provide financial modeling and analysis for strategic initiatives to assess ROI, risks/rewards, go-to-market assumptions, costs, etc

• Provide monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc insight into SAAS Metrics, analysis, and reporting to the leadership team and investors, ensuring a high degree of quality, timeliness, accuracy, and business insight  

• Prepare financial statements, business activity reports, financial forecasts and annual budgets

• Improve and scale financial systems, tools, and processes by evaluating and implementing new technology and policies

• Provide strategic guidance on growth, M&A and related financing

• Help the business build decision-making discipline, have strategic involvement, learning the business rather than only reporting on the numbers

• Advise on compensation strategy including equity and bonus planning

• Member of the Executive Leadership Team, trusted partner to the broader leadership team, acting as adviser and challenger to ensure the business goals, resources, and processes are appropriate and delivered. 

• Build and maintain valuable partnerships with existing and potential new investors

Your Skills & Competencies:

• A proactive, pragmatic, and decisive leader 

• A strong cross-functional collaborator

• Hands-on

• Highly analytical with strong business acumen, able to transition easily between the strategic and tactical

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complex financial matters to diverse audiences

• Excellent organization skills, proven track record of accuracy and timeliness

• Comfortable in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

Your Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of finance leadership experience, preferably in an efficiency-driven SaaS business. Expert in SaaS metrics and subscription-based services.

• Master's degree in Finance, preferably also an Executive Master of Finance & Control (RC) 

• Strong understanding of accounting, budgeting, and finances is essential

• Experience working in a VC/PE-backed SaaS company 

• Knowledge of financing/ experience with raising rounds of financing and/or exits

• Managerial experiences relating to Legal, RevOps, and HR is a plus

What you get:

• Be part of a top-tier team in the Content Creation scale-up

• A key global role in driving business decisions with the executive team

• Competitive compensation package

• Embrace the variety of backgrounds and values that each individual brings to the table

• A fast-paced, ever-evolving company culture

Want to learn more about the role? Take a look at this Foleon Document!