SVP / VP, Financial Planning and Analysis

About Avid

Avid Technology is the global leader in media technology solutions, powering the creation of the most listened-to, most watched, and most loved content in the world. Avid's industry-leading hardware and software solutions are used by the world's top creative professionals — from Hollywood studios and major broadcasters to independent artists and musicians — across audio and video production, post-production, and media management.

Avid is a private-equity-backed company at an exciting inflection point. We are investing in transforming our financial infrastructure, building a best-in-class FP&A function, and positioning the business for long-term growth. This is an opportunity to join at the ground level of that build and make a lasting impact.

This is a senior finance leadership role for an experienced FP&A executive who thrives in a complex, PE-backed SaaS environment and is energized by building — not just running — a world-class financial planning function.

The opportunity

You will own everything FP&A from day one: the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, lender and investor reporting, KPI design, GTM commercial reporting, and the operating cadence that connects financial insight to business decision-making. You will also play a central role in driving data integrity across the finance function — partnering closely with accounting, revenue operations, and our PE sponsor to build a single, trusted source of truth for company performance.

This role requires someone who is equally comfortable resolving complex revenue reconciliations, presenting to senior lenders, rebuilding a financial close process from the ground up, and stabilizing a finance team through a period of change. If you have done all of that before and want to do it again at a company with real scale and real upside, we want to talk to you.

Financial planning & forecasting

• Lead the annual operating plan process end-to-end — from design and build through executive review, board presentation, and system load
• Own rolling forecasts, reforecasts, and long-range plans; maintain driver-based models that connect operational assumptions to financial outcomes with transparency at the product, segment, and route-to-market level
• Deliver scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support strategic decisions, including cost structure optimization, working capital management, and capital allocation
• Build and maintain a rigorous AOP monitoring framework — tracking actuals vs. plan monthly, flagging variances early, and driving corrective action with business owners

Revenue & ARR reporting

• Own the company's ARR reporting framework, including ARR bridge movements across new, expansion, contraction, churn, migration, and price — ensuring internal reporting reconciles fully to external and auditor-prepared analyses
• Produce and maintain the monthly close book, including revenue, ARR, EBITDA, and cash flow sections, with a rigorous QC framework that ensures figures tie end-to-end across all tabs
• Manage the reconciliation between recognized GAAP revenue, billings, and ARR — including contract asset and deferred revenue movements — with full traceability to underlying data sources
• Develop and maintain a holistic GTM reporting pack covering ARR and customer movements, bookings, churn and downsell analysis, renewal performance (UFR), pipeline, and sales team performance vs. quota

Lender & investor reporting

• Own the quarterly compliance certificate process, including Non-GAAP P&L preparation, addback support, and all underlying workpapers required by senior lenders
• Produce the quarterly management reporting package for the PE sponsor, including executive KPI dashboards, variance analysis with clear narrative, and updated business trajectory views
• Maintain a forward-looking liquidity model — weekly cash flow, monthly liquidity views, and scenario analysis around key cash events — in close partnership with the Treasury function
• Serve as a primary finance point of contact for PE sponsor finance teams and lender agents on reporting, covenant questions, and ad-hoc analytical requests

Business partnering & strategic support

• Act as the senior finance business partner to the CFO and executive leadership team; translate financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive strategic and operational decisions
• Partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Product/Engineering to interpret results, challenge assumptions, and provide collaborative support on strategic planning.
• Align with HR on headcount planning and cost tracking; maintain up-to-date financial views that reflect hiring plans, position changes, and actual headcount movements

Data integrity & reporting infrastructure

• Partner with Accounting and Revenue Operations to drive accuracy and consistency in financial data — resolving reconciliation gaps between source systems, the general ledger, and management reporting
• Lead initiatives to move from manual, spreadsheet-dependent processes to scalable, system-driven reporting — reducing close cycle time and improving data reliability across the finance function
• Design and implement KPI frameworks that connect operational metrics to financial outcomes; ensure consistent definitions, calculation methodologies, and ownership across all reporting surfaces
• Evaluate and implement FP&A tooling and BI capabilities that improve reporting quality, reduce manual effort, and enable self-service insight for business stakeholders

Team leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team; set clear priorities, build capability, and create a team culture defined by accuracy, intellectual rigor, and commercial impact

• Build the team's capacity to support the full scope of the FP&A function as the business grows — including recruiting for open roles and designing team structure to match organizational needs

Required

• 10+ years of progressive FP&A and finance leadership experience, with a significant portion in PE-backed companies; you have been through the PE reporting cycle — compliance certificates, sponsor decks, lender calls — and you own it, not support it
• Demonstrated experience building or rebuilding a financial close process and FP&A reporting infrastructure — including close books, QC frameworks, hard monthly closes, and management reporting packs — not just inheriting and running an established one
• Hands-on experience with ARR bridge reconciliation in a multi-product, multi-route-to-market SaaS business; you understand every movement category and you have personally resolved discrepancies between internal reporting and external auditor analyses
• Deep working knowledge of GAAP revenue recognition (ASC 606), including the reconciliation between recognized revenue, billings, contract assets, and deferred revenue; experience managing a revenue recognition system (RevPro, Zuora, or equivalent) is strongly preferred
• Experience building and operating a GTM commercial reporting pack, including renewal and retention analysis (UFR or equivalent), churn and downsell attribution, pipeline reporting, and sales performance vs. quota — in partnership with a GTM leadership team
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain a forward-looking liquidity model, including cash flow scenario analysis and working capital levers, in a business with active lender relationships
• Strong technical accounting grounding in US GAAP; ability to read and interpret financial statements, bridge management and GAAP reporting, and engage credibly with auditors and lender finance teams
• Proficiency with financial systems: ERP (NetSuite preferred), advanced Excel/Power Query, Power BI or Tableau, CRM (Salesforce), and FP&A planning tools (Anaplan, Adaptive, or equivalent)
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills — you can present a complex variance analysis to a CFO and a lender agent in the same week and land both
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; MBA, MSF, or CPA strongly preferred

Strongly preferred

• Experience in a business with both subscription and non-recurring revenue streams, where internal management revenue (605-proxy) and GAAP revenue (606) are tracked and reported separately
• Experience managing or significantly contributing to a data integrity initiative — resolving source system discrepancies, reconciling conflicting analyses from multiple teams, and implementing a sustainable process going forward
• Track record leading finance through a period of organizational change — team restructuring, leadership transitions, or post-acquisition integration — while maintaining output quality and team stability
• Experience partnering with PE sponsor finance teams directly, including responding to STG, KKR, Vista, or equivalent-level reporting and analytical requests
• Familiarity with cost savings tracking methodologies, including actioned vs. unactioned savings and the distinction between notification, exit, realized, and pro forma savings dates
• CPA or equivalent professional certification
• Hands-on experience with Python or SQL for data extraction and automation

What to expect

This is a builder role. You will walk into an environment where the foundational infrastructure of FP&A is being rebuilt and where your fingerprints will be on every process, output, and system the team uses for years to come. The business has strong underlying performance, an engaged and sophisticated PE sponsor, and a senior leadership team that is committed to making the finance function a genuine source of competitive advantage.

The CFO is looking for a peer and a thought partner — someone who brings a point of view, challenges assumptions respectfully, and takes ownership of outcomes rather than activities. If you have operated at that level before and are looking for a role with real scope and real impact, this is it.

Reporting structure & team

• Reports directly to the CFO
• Leads a team of Financial Analysts with scope to expand as the function grows
• Works closely with Accounting, Treasury, Revenue Operations, and the PE sponsor's finance team

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Pay Range $249,112 - $373,668 USD

The salary range shown reflects the company's good faith full target range for this position at the time of posting. The company may update or modify this range at any time and endeavors to keep this posting current. Compensation decisions are based on factors including geographic location, experience, skills, education, and business needs. While the full range is posted for transparency, offers are typically made within the lower to middle portion of the range.