Senior Director, GTM Finance
Apply NowCompany: BlackLine
Location: Pleasanton, CA 94566
Description:
Get to Know Us:
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
The Senior Director, GTM (Go-To-Market) Finance will play a critical leadership role in driving financial strategy and operational excellence across sales, marketing, and customer success organizations. This individual will serve as a strategic partner to GTM leadership, providing financial insights, analysis, and recommendations that support revenue growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.
As BlackLine continues to build Finance capabilities that accelerate growth and optimize efficiency, we are looking for a Senior Director of Finance for our GTM organization. In this role you will be the senior finance business partner to our Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Customer Officer and their GTM leadership team. The role is responsible for providing financial insights and analytics to aid decision making, partnering with the business on strategy and execution to enable and accelerate long term growth for BlackLine, while improving the profitability and efficacy of our go to market function.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter, strategic and structured thinker, excellent communicator, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Director of GTM Finance will contribute to the development of our GTM strategy, lead the annual budgeting processes and long-range planning , as well as reporting and data analysis efforts to provide insights to your business partners. Reporting to the VP of Finance, this role is highly visible and will regularly interact the CFO, CRO, CCO, CMO, and other executives.
What You'll Bring:
We're Even More Excited If You Have:
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
Salary Range:
USD $231,000.00 - USD $289,000.00
Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.
BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.
Accommodations:
BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
The Senior Director, GTM (Go-To-Market) Finance will play a critical leadership role in driving financial strategy and operational excellence across sales, marketing, and customer success organizations. This individual will serve as a strategic partner to GTM leadership, providing financial insights, analysis, and recommendations that support revenue growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.
As BlackLine continues to build Finance capabilities that accelerate growth and optimize efficiency, we are looking for a Senior Director of Finance for our GTM organization. In this role you will be the senior finance business partner to our Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Customer Officer and their GTM leadership team. The role is responsible for providing financial insights and analytics to aid decision making, partnering with the business on strategy and execution to enable and accelerate long term growth for BlackLine, while improving the profitability and efficacy of our go to market function.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter, strategic and structured thinker, excellent communicator, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Director of GTM Finance will contribute to the development of our GTM strategy, lead the annual budgeting processes and long-range planning , as well as reporting and data analysis efforts to provide insights to your business partners. Reporting to the VP of Finance, this role is highly visible and will regularly interact the CFO, CRO, CCO, CMO, and other executives.
What You'll Bring:
- Education: BA/BS degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Economics, Strategy or similar. Advanced degree preferred.
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in Finance or Operational roles supporting GTM organizations in high growth environment, preferably enterprise software companies.
- Analytical Skills: Deep understanding of P&L components, unit economics, and SaaS metrics. Finance minded with strong operational focus to drive process, systems, and execution in a scalable and repeatable way. Proficient at simplifying and distilling complex business information into actionable insights.
- Leadership: Proven track record of developing people, leading, and managing high-performing teams.
- Communication: Outstanding interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills and proven stakeholder management and influencing skills; must build collaborative working relationships with teams across the organization.
- Systems & Tools: Proficiency in financial planning software (e.g. Adaptive Planning), CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce), Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.
We're Even More Excited If You Have:
- Systems & Tools: Familiarity visualization tools (e.g. Tableau) and data sciences (SQL, R, Python).
- Extensive experience building, developing, and leading Finance function(s) for public companies, ideally in a $500M - $1BN+ revenue company.
- Strong executive leadership skills with experience partnering at the executive management levels; you are viewed as a trusted and objective advisor.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
Salary Range:
USD $231,000.00 - USD $289,000.00
Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.
BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.
Accommodations:
BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.