VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

The role

The Vice President of FP&A will be a strategic partner to the CFO and a member of the leadership team. This person will deliver financial and operational insights, lead change-management initiatives, and prepare the company for an exit while managing a team of four analysts.

What you will do

• Be the thought partner to the CFO and Senior Leadership Team on growth, margin, pricing, capital allocation, and M&A.
• Support long-range planning, portfolio analysis, business development, and financing activities.
• Lead financial planning processes, including budgeting and forecasting.
• Develop financial analysis, modeling, forecasting, and reporting frameworks.
• Lead and manage the capital planning and budget process.
• Build the operating rhythm including monthly business reviews, variance narratives, and KPI scorecards.
• Prepare Board and sponsor materials.
• Support M&A, financing, and exit activity.
• Lead, coach, and grow the FP&A team of four analysts.
• Identify and pilot AI and automation use cases in forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or business partnering
• 3+ years leading teams
• Proven people leader
• Executive presence and influence
• Strong communicator, written and verbal
• Sound business judgment
• Thrives in a fast-moving, remote, cross-functional environment
• Mastery of planning tools: Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Claude, etc.
• AI thought partner: experience applying AI and automation to finance workflows

Nice to have

• preferably in a private equity-owned SaaS portfolio company

About the company

Lightspeed is a provider of cloud-based software for dealerships in the Powersport, Marine, RV, Trailer, and Golf Car industries. Their Dealer Management Solution enables dealerships to optimize business operations.