Finance Director Subscription Revenue Reporting

• Evolve a global ACV reporting framework in a complex, data-driven organization.
• You will influence strategy and provide insight for key growth metrics

About Our Client

Our client is a highly respected multinational information services and analytics organization with a significant global presence. Known for delivering critical intelligence and solutions to businesses and financial markets worldwide, they are seeking an experienced leader to drive a strategically important reporting function.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced finance leader to own and enhance the global ACV (Annual Contract Value) /Subscription 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.MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

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.

What’s on Offer

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

Interested? Apply today!

Contact

Charlotte Rooney-Jones

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