Vice President, FP&A

Vice President, FP&A – Irth Solutions

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: United States, Preferred Eastern and Central Time Zones

Department: G&A

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer

Company Overview

Irth Solutions is a software product company developing innovative technology platforms designed to set industry benchmarks. With a strong product culture, collaborative work environment, and significant growth potential, Irth offers an exciting opportunity to work with modern, enterprise-scale data platforms.

Position Summary

The VP of FP&A leads all financial planning and analysis at Irth, covering both corporate FP&A and business partnering for Sales, Customer Success, Product/Engineering, Operations, G&A and acquired businesses. You will build the planning engine, modernize the tooling, and turn financial data into decisions that drive ARR growth, margin expansion and cash generation.  You will establish efficient FP&A processes that enable continued scaling of the function while focusing on growth, talent development, and strategic insights that drive value creation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Executive Partnership

• Serve as the CFO's thought partner and a visible member of the finance leadership team, helping shape corporate strategy, the long-range plan and annual operating priorities
• Own the sponsor's value creation plan, including EBITDA bridges and initiative tracking, and lead the preparation and presentation of financial results and outlook to the executive team, board and PE sponsor.

Corporate FP&A and Planning

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast and long-range plan, including ARR, bookings, retention, headcount and margin drivers
• Build and maintain integrated three-statement models (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) to support board reporting, lender requirements and sponsor reviews
• Lead scenario and sensitivity planning, including downside and acquisition cases, so the CFO, board and sponsor can see the range of outcomes, the key risks and the options for responding to them
• Lead monthly and quarterly close-to-forecast cycles, variance analysis and board and sponsor reporting packages
• Define and track SaaS KPIs and unit economics (ARR, NRR/GRR, CAC payback, LTV, Rule of 40, gross margin by line)

Business Partnering

• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product/Engineering, Operations, Services and G&A leaders to set targets, shape resourcing and evaluate ROI on investments
• Provide performance reporting with actionable insights to business partners
• Translate financial insights into clear recommendations for executives, and challenge assumptions constructively
• Support pricing, packaging, compensation plan and go-to-market decisions with rigorous analysis

EPM and Systems

• Select, implement and own the enterprise planning platform (e.g., Pigment, Drivetrain, Adaptive, Planful or Anaplan), including data integration with the ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data warehouse.
• Establish model governance, version control and a single source of truth for planning data
• Partner with Controllership, HR, and Product teams to effectively manage and govern key foundational data elements

Cash Management and Capital Allocation

• Partner with controllership on the 13-week cash forecast and own long-term liquidity outlook
• Monitor covenant compliance, debt service and working capital (billings, collections, deferred revenue)
• Evaluate capital allocation trade-offs across organic investment, M&A and debt paydown

M&A and Integration

• Support Irth’s acquisitive stance by providing pro forma and scenario analysis on M&A targets, highlighting accretive opportunities and communicating dilutive risks
• Lead financial integration for acquired companies, including budget onboarding, reporting alignment, synergy tracking and post-close performance versus the deal thesis --- drive cross functional alignment to acquired target’s investment thesis

Team Building and Scaling the Function

• Build, hire, coach and develop an FP&A team across corporate FP&A and business partnering, setting clear performance expectations, creating career paths and a succession plan, and growing future leaders within the function
• Design the operating cadence, processes and controls that let FP&A scale with the company
• Other responsibilities and projects as assigned

AI and Automation

• Identify and deploy AI and workflow automation to streamline forecasting, variance commentary, reporting, reconciliations and other cross-functional and back-office processes
• Partner with IT, Accounting, Revenue Ops and other teams to put practical, well-governed AI use cases into production
• Promote creativity and idea generation towards a more advanced finance function that is embedded within operating cadence of the Irth business