Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

Company Description

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering solutions that help the world’s largest brands simplify how digital trust is managed and scaled. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across enterprise environments, enabling organizations to reduce complexity, accelerate time to value, and strengthen security across environments. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500. Sectigo holds six combined active leadership seats in the CA/Browser Forum and ETSI and brings two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly analytical, strategic, and technology-forward Director of Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis to lead the company's financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business intelligence functions. This leader will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership by transforming financial and operational data into actionable insights that drive business performance and strategic decision-making.

The ideal candidate combines strong FP&A leadership with deep analytical capabilities, leveraging modern data platforms, automation, and AI technologies to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and organizational decision-making. This role will lead the evolution of our reporting and analytics capabilities while building and developing a high-performing finance team.

Financial Planning & Forecasting:

• Lead the company's annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models to support business planning, resource allocation, and strategic initiatives.
• Analyze financial performance, identify key trends and drivers, and provide actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Partner with departmental leaders to establish financial targets and improve accountability against operating plans.
• Evaluate risks and opportunities and communicate business impacts to executive leadership.

Financial Reporting & Performance Management:

• Establish forecast governance processes, planning standards, and accountability mechanisms that improve forecast accuracy, transparency, and ownership across all functional areas.
• Own the preparation and delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting packages.
• Develop executive dashboards and KPI frameworks that measure financial and operational performance.
• Drive variance analysis and root-cause investigations across revenue, expenses, cash flow, and profitability metrics.
• Support Board, investor, and executive-level reporting with insightful analyses and business commentary.
• Ensure reporting consistency, integrity, and transparency across the organization.

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence:

• Lead the development of scalable reporting and analytics solutions utilizing Snowflake, Sigma, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Finance, Revenue Operations, Data, and Technology teams to establish a single source of truth for business reporting.
• Create advanced financial and operational analyses that identify trends, opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Drive data governance and financial data quality initiatives across reporting systems.

AI, Automation & Finance Transformation:

• Champion the adoption of AI and automation within finance processes and reporting workflows.
• Identify opportunities to streamline budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and analytical processes through automation and machine learning capabilities.
• Lead projects that reduce manual effort, improve reporting speed, and enhance forecasting accuracy.
• Evaluate emerging finance technologies and develop business cases for future investments in analytics and AI solutions.

Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead and scale the FP&A, reporting and analytics function, establishing the organizational structure, processes and talent capabilities to support continued company growth.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing FP&A and reporting team.
• Establish clear goals, development plans, and performance expectations for team members.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to finance professionals and future leaders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to strengthen financial acumen throughout the organization.

Strategic Business Partnership:

• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and department heads.
• Support business cases, pricing initiatives, investment decisions, and strategic planning efforts.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives focused on growth, profitability, operational efficiency, and scalability.
• Participate in M&A evaluations, due diligence activities, and post-acquisition integration planning as needed.

More information about this role:

• This is a full-time position, working in a hybrid model, and reporting to our Scottsdale office at least 3-4 days a week.
• The targeted compensation package for this role is between USD $190K and $210K per annum, subject to internal equity and years of experience. We may make further adjustments through an approval process if the targeted compensation range needs to be modified based on business needs and market trends.