Finance Director - Subscription Revenue Reporting

Finance Leader For Global ACV Reporting

We are seeking an experienced finance leader to own and enhance the global ACV reporting framework for a large, complex, subscription-based business. This role will lead a small team and partner closely with Finance, Commercial, Sales Operations, and Leadership teams to deliver insightful reporting, explain key business drivers, and support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end ACV reporting process across a global, multi-product business, ensuring the timely and accurate production of monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reporting.
• Own the calculation, analysis, and reconciliation of ACV metrics, providing a clear bridge between commercial performance and reported revenue.
• Deliver insightful analysis on key business drivers, including renewals, retention, churn, expansion, contraction, product migration, and new business generation.
• Develop and communicate the ACV story to senior stakeholders, highlighting trends, risks, opportunities, and the underlying drivers of business performance.
• Partner with Finance, FP&A, Sales Operations, Commercial Leadership, and Data teams to ensure consistency of definitions, methodologies, and reporting outputs across the organization.
• Investigate and explain variances between business performance metrics, ACV reporting, and revenue results, providing actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Analyze customer and product cohorts to assess revenue quality, customer retention, and long-term growth trends.
• Maintain and enhance reporting models, controls, and governance processes to improve data quality, accuracy, and confidence in reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reporting processes, data flows, and systems, identifying opportunities to increase automation and efficiency.
• Act as the key point of contact and subject matter expert for ACV reporting, establishing a trusted and consistent view of performance across the business.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing team responsible for reporting, analysis, and business support activities.
• Support executive leadership with strategic analysis and presentations that inform planning, forecasting, and decision-making at both divisional and enterprise level.

The successful candidate will bring a blend of commercial finance, revenue analytics, and leadership experience gained within a complex, recurring revenue business. You will be highly analytical, naturally curious, and capable of translating large volumes of data into meaningful business insights that support strategic decision-making. Key requirements include:

• 10+ years of experience within ACV/ARR reporting, revenue analytics, FP&A, revenue accounting, commercial finance, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience owning and developing enterprise-wide ACV, ARR, subscription, or recurring revenue reporting frameworks.
• Strong understanding of key recurring revenue metrics, including renewals, retention, churn, expansion, contraction, and customer growth trends.
• Experience partnering with senior finance, commercial, sales operations, and business leaders to influence decision-making and performance outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of revenue recognition principles and the relationship between commercial performance metrics and reported revenue.
• Advanced analytical and data manipulation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable insights.
• Experience working with large data sets and reporting tools such as Salesforce, Oracle, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar platforms.
• A proven track record of improving reporting processes, strengthening controls, and driving greater confidence in business performance reporting.
• Previous people leadership experience, with the ability to develop, coach, and motivate high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership.

Ideal Backgrounds We are particularly interested in candidates from subscription-based, data, information services, technology, SaaS, financial services, or other recurring revenue environments where customer retention, contract value, and revenue analytics are critical drivers of business performance.

Competitive salary ranging from $189,000 to $210,000 per year plus bonus. Permanent role in the financial services industry. Comprehensive benefits package.