Associate Director of Finance, Applause
Office located in Framingham, MA
Testing and digital quality platform
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Testing and digital quality platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Framingham, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the first place to turn for brands to ensure their digital interactions with customers are of the highest quality and work as intended.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial management, or business planning
- Prior knowledge and experience with SaaS based metrics preferred
- Advanced Excel skills and demonstrated proficiency in financial modeling
- Experience with financial planning software (e.g., NetSuite, Adaptive Planning, Xactly) is highly desirable
- Strong understanding of finance and accounting principles, including income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow analysis
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of the organization
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- A proactive and results-oriented approach, with a strong desire to contribute to the company's success
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Associate Director of Finance to play a critical role in our company's financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function
- This individual will be a key business partner to senior leadership, providing insightful financial forecasting, reporting, and analysis that drives strategic decision-making
- Forecasting and Budgeting: Lead the development of the company-wide monthly forecast and annual budget in collaboration with senior leadership and business divisions. Analyze variances and provide insightful commentary to guide performance improvement
- Financial Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of key financial metrics, including revenue, operational margin, labor costs, expenses, and capital expenditures. Deliver clear and concise presentations to senior management, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities
- Sales Compensation Planning: Manage the annual sales compensation planning process, collaborating with sales leadership to determine competitive and motivating compensation structures
- Business Partnering: Work closely with department managers to ensure accuracy and relevance of financial data used for operational decision-making
- Process Improvement: Support ongoing reviews of business operations and contribute to initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency and effectiveness
- Accounting Support: Assist in the monthly accounting close process, including detailed expense review, validation, and analysis
- Reporting: Prepare comprehensive financial reports for the Board of Directors, private equity owners, and lenders
- Systems Management: Leverage and maintain financial planning systems (e.g., Adaptive Planning) to streamline forecasting and reporting processes. Identify opportunities to automate reporting through existing systems
Our take
Applause is an app quality testing platform giving development companies the ability to have their products thoroughly tested in real-world situations by a global network of testers. It also offers further development features such as the ability to gather user feedback, advanced analytics from app stores and bug reporting.
As a bug-free product launch has increasingly become the expectation among organisations and users, global demand for testing services has steadily risen. Applause competes for a piece of this market against companies such as Smartbear. However, its "in the wild" testing service is structured to scale rapidly compared to competitors, and it now has an unmatched 300,000 testers available on-demand around the globe.
Applause counts thousands of companies as its customers, including Google, Nike and Slack, to name just a few. It will move to consolidate its market lead by seeking to reach new customers, develop its platform, and build additional partnerships with companies that can help it test at larger and larger scales.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2016
$35m
SERIES F
Jan 2014
$43m
SERIES E
Total funding: $115.8m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision insurance
- 401(K) match
- Generous bonus scheme
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- In It Together
- Create Value for Customers
- Crush Your Goals
- Be Accountable
- Celebrate Authenticity
Company HQ
Framingham, MA
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Leadership
Doron Reuveni
(Executive Chairman)Prior to Applause, they were the CEO and Owner of Re.D Consulting, where they assisted early stage startups in raising capital, and provided counsel to VC's for portfolio companies' market direction, technology and management evaluation. Prior to Re.D, Doron was SVP of Technology at Enigma, where they led multi-million dollar software implementations for companies such as Ford, Volvo, and United Airlines.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Applause
- Contribute to organizations that support underrepresented groups
- Work with programs to hire within underrepresented communities
- Offer workshops such as personality trait awareness and unconscious bias awareness
- Employee-run affinity groups
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