Company Description

Paying the right way, getting paid what you’re worth — it’s complicated, and it matters. Compensation used to be a dark art. Not anymore. PayScale helps employers and their employees understand the right pay for every position and effectively communicate about compensation.

PayScale pioneered the use of crowd-sourced compensation data and unique matching algorithms to power the world’s most advanced compensation platform and continues to be the compensation market leader. 

We foster a working environment that generates new ideas, promotes ownership and experimentation and encourages highly motivated individuals to be truly creative. Are you forward-thinking, tenacious, and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

Job Description

Senior Director, FP&A

FP&A is a critical function for PayScale that helps the CFO, CEO, executive leadership team and Board gain financial visibility and insights into the business. This high-profile team runs PayScale’s financial processes, including our annual planning and budgeting process, our monthly / quarterly budgets and forecasts, and helps architect and drive all our key financial reporting to the executive leadership team and Board. FP&A partners with other key operational teams on all the moving pieces that impact our financial outlook. As a leader of this team, you will:

• Manage key financial processes, including long-term and rolling forecasting, budget planning, performance reporting, and others
• Create financial commentaries and insights for decision support and key financial deliverables
• Develop new (and improve existing) processes relating to strategic planning / financial planning / reporting based on a deep understanding of business KPIs / drivers
• Support and refine the metrics to track our function-specific and company-wide trends, find opportunities, provide recommendations, and collaborate across all levels
• Have a highly collaborative approach and the ability to interact with senior leadership and board members
• Support ad hoc projects (including strategic planning, corporate strategy, unit economics, business case development) and help define systems and operational improvements to support PayScale’s growth ambitions 
• Apply an analytical approach to influence strategic decision-making, with a focus on capital allocation decisions and long-term financial planning
• Manage and continue to grow a small but impactful team
• Understand how to operate in and improve upon PayScale's financial systems and reporting through the use of Adaptive Insights

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Accounting, or other relevant field
• 8-12 years of relevant finance experience, including experience in finance/strategy/banking/ corporate development – ideally in private equity-backed or public company with specific experience in corporate FP&A 
• Experience mentoring and managing a team, providing the right balance of support, guidance and runway to create a best-in-class finance function
• Experience leading complex workstreams and collaborating with senior executives
• Excellent proficiency in accounting and corporate finance concepts, SaaS experience required
• Strong attention to detail combined with the business judgment to understand the bigger picture drivers that guide forecasting
• Good understanding of Accounting and GAAP principles
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and operate at a high capacity to get things done in short timeframes
• Familiarity with financial planning processes and business systems (Adaptive Insights / Salesforce experience preferred)
• Pricing experience is a plus

Additional Information

Benefits & Perks – The Highlights:

• Flexible Paid Time Off policy
• 10 paid holidays 
• Amazing Medical/Vision/Dental/Prescription coverage: 100% company-paid premiums for employees; 50% for eligible partners and dependents
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, and Company-paid Life Insurance
• Strong Maternity and Paternity Leave benefits, and multiple onsite Mother’s Rooms
• 401k which vests immediately, complete with company match
• Onsite bike storage, lockers, showers, and clothes dryer
• Ergo friendly chairs and sitting-standing desks
• Company-hosted happy hours every Friday afternoon
• Fido Fridays (our canine colleagues join us the first Friday of every month. WOOF!)

Equal Opportunity Employer: PayScale provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. PayScale complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.