ABOUT THE COMPANY
The best of all worlds: join Avolution, a highly regarded, worldwide, financially sound and growing Enterprise Architecture Software company. Founded in 2001 and with offices in Sydney, Singapore, London, Northern Virginia, Canada and South America. Avolution is established as an industry leader in its Gartner Magic Quadrant and other industry reports. Be part of a smart, friendly team, and use your skills and initiative to drive growth. Benefit from our culture which is described by employees as collaborative, flexible, and supportive.
Avolution is a globally recognised leader providing Enterprise Architecture solutions. Avolution helps organisations understand and plan their business execution and strategic initiatives across all functional areas using enterprise modelling, visualisation, and analytics. Avolution is a B2B SaaS business with truly global reach, serving over 300 customers across more than 45 countries. The company is supported by Avolution’s 75-person team, operating from seven offices around the world. In December 2024, Whiteoak private equity made a major investment in Avolution with a view to accelerating innovation and driving growth.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced global CFO, capable of building, organising, driving, and scaling our finance function globally. We are entering a new growth phase from a founder-led organisation to a truly global organisation. This role is critical in establishing the right discipline, rigour, and rhythm for the business now and into the future. This is a true partnership role with the CEO, the leadership team, and will involve regularly reporting to the board.
Responsibilities
- Overall management of the company’s financial position and financial decision making
- Passionately connected to the company’s goals of revenue growth, profitability and organisational scalability
- Developing financial strategy: Create and implement financial strategies, policies, and procedures to achieve the company's financial goals
- Drive automation: Ensuring our company is streamlines, productive and efficient with real time data and reporting
- Forecasting: Provide accurate, actionable and accountable forecasts
- Managing budgets: Work with the LT to develop and land budget proposals
- Data analysis: Own and create operational data to identify areas for cost reduction and process improvement
- Treasury and Cash management: Ensuring the optimal working capital timelines and mix without compromising working capital
- Managing the relationship with Auditors, Banks, Tax Authorities, and other external authorities ensuring that Avolution meets all requirements and compliance obligations globally.
- Strong understanding of Australian and international taxation as relevant to a global SaaS business.
- Strong understanding of Australian Accounting Standards and experience leading successful annual company audits within a specified timeframe.
- Managing risk: Perform and drive the company’s risk management plans and actions. Ensuring all relevant Board policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Own the company’s financial reporting: Ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and compliant with all regulations in all geographies. Responsible for the delivery of all shareholder reporting.
- Develop, review, and monitor client contracts to ensure deals adhere to sound financial analysis for positive commercial outcomes Avolution.
- Deliver support to commercial/partnership teams to enable tracking, monitoring, and delivery of key SaaS model metrics and embed into team and individual KPIs and performance management frameworks.
- Managing finance personnel: Manage accounting procedures and supervise financial personnel. Build a great team.
- Advising on long-term planning: Advise on long-term business and financial planning. Facilitate linking of strategy through to financial outcomes and business modelling.
- Representing the organization: Represent the organization in appropriate forums and being able to comment on the financials.
ABOUT YOU
- Global CFO experience ideally in the software industry
- Ability to work a trusted business partner to CEO
- Experience in high growth environments
- Familiar with SaaS economics
- CA or CPA qualified
- Hands on, energetic and execution focused attitude
- Able to get into the detail and lead from the front
- Ability and appetite to rebuild processes and reporting from the ground up over the initial 100+days.
- Results orientated with a focus on execution – ‘get the job done’.
- Experience in board reporting
- Has built and led great teams
- Technologically proficient and can drive operational agenda
- Objectivity, intellectual horsepower, rigour and discipline
- Able to travel
You will be part of a smart, friendly team and have additional benefits including:
- Flexible working
- 20 days annual leave + public holidays
- 1 day of birthday leave per year
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Annual IT spend budget
You may have experience of the following: Global CFO, Finance Director, Head of Finance, VP of Finance, or similar.
All applicants must have the right to work in Australia. Avolution is an equal opportunities employer.
