VP, Finance, Emergence Automotive

The role

You will own the finance work across Emergence's automotive software portfolio: forecasting, KPI reporting, operating reviews, and decision support for portfolio company CEOs. You will also support acquisitions, from modeling and diligence through integration and value creation after close.

What you will do

• Own the finance cadence across the automotive portfolio: forecasting, performance management, KPI reporting, and operating reviews
• Build operating models covering scenario planning, retention and cohort economics, cash and working capital, unit economics, and capital allocation
• Work directly with portfolio company leaders to turn analysis into recommendations
• Lead and support M&A: modeling, diligence, synergy analysis, integration planning, financing, and post-close value creation
• Build board- and investor-quality materials and set finance standards across the portfolio

Required qualifications

• 2 to 5 years in a strategic finance seat inside an operating business, owning the plan, forecast, and board narrative
• Real operating experience, with time spent running and planning a business weighed above executing or evaluating deals
• Strong financial modeling, with comfort owning operating models end to end
• Experience building a model, cadence, or reporting standard from nothing
• Clear, direct communication at the board level

Nice to have

• Acquisition or merger modeling

Before you apply

• Candidates may come from strategic finance or FP&A in software, corporate development, private equity, venture capital, investment banking with live deal experience, operating finance, or audit and ac
• Hiring includes meetings with leadership, conversations with people you have worked with, and short exercises such as learning something new and teaching it back, and a realistic finance scenario

About the company

Emergence Automotive is the AutoTech portfolio within Emergence, a holding company backed by permanent capital. It buys and builds software businesses in and around the car business and reports more than $35 million in ARR across several businesses.