Strategic Finance Senior Consultant
Rate: $100-150/hr
MUST:
- 5+ years in a strategic finance or biz ops role
- 2+ years in working for a SaaS company within finance
- 2+ years in SaaS revenue modeling experience (usage based revenue, difference between live build ARR)
- Strong experience producing ARR models & knows how ARR changes at a SaaS company over time
- experience taking raw operational data and be able to pull and clean their own data using SQL, python, etc and produce it into something a finance leader can use
- familiar with the concept usage based revenue & net revenue retention
- experience creating scenario models for retention and bookings
- excellent at excel- must have power query experience & has build dynamic models (VBA would be nice to have)
- experience with data analytics- ability to pull their own data using SQL and querying in SQL
- bachelors degree
PLUS:
- ideally using databricks
- MBA is a plus
DAY TO DAY:
Our client, an international SaaS company is seeking this Strategic Finance Consultant who can come in and help out on a project they have. This project is centered around getting a better undesranding of the company’s ARR in general, so this role is focused on revenue and data cleaning. The role will support strategic finance and business operations projects focused on SaaS revenue, ARR, customer purchasing behavior, renewals, bookings, and revenue analysis. Responsibilities will include building and maintaining ARR and revenue models, analyzing customer and revenue trends, and developing scenario models for retention and bookings.
The individual will also pull, clean, and analyze operational data using SQL, Python, Excel, and other analytics tools, transforming complex or incomplete data into actionable insights for finance leadership. A key component of the role will be improving and automating these processes by documenting requirements, identifying efficiencies, and developing scalable solutions that can ultimately be implemented in tools such as Power BI. This project has two sides: 1 doing the work, 2 working on the automation of the process and writing requirement documents so they can eventually do this work in a tool like PowerBI.