VP, Finance

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Modaxo

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1001 - 5000 employees

🚗 Transport

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Transport • SaaS • B2B

Modaxo is a global acquirer and operator of vertical-market software companies that power people transportation. The company provides a permanent, long-term home for transport-focused software businesses, offering financial backing, collaborative autonomy, and a people-first culture while keeping brands and teams independent. Modaxo’s portfolio covers software for buses, rail, demand response, taxis, private cars and aviation, and it focuses on scaling solutions that improve planning, payments, safety, and operational efficiency across public and commercial transport.

📋 Description

• Reporting to the Group Leader, this role leads and manages all financial aspects for the group unit and supports 6 business units. • The Group VP Finance will have overall responsibility for the financial operations of the group, including finance and accounting, compliance with statutory requirements, corporate governance, risk management, and legal for the businesses. • Additionally, you will be required to take on an Integration Finance Manager role to oversee business integration activities for newly acquired entities in the market and drive AI adoption within the finance team of the group. • Each business unit, depending on the size and financial viability, will have a finance lead to be the business partner to each General Manager. • These finance leader roles have a dotted line to the Group VP Finance to facilitate best practice sharing, process improvement and implementation of group-wide projects. • Management Support Group Leader and functional managers to develop clear business plans, priorities and forecasts in line with +/- 3% forecast accuracy targets. • Lead the finance business partners within supported business to deliver excellent pro-active service to stakeholders. • Drive process improvements through adoption of AI and other tools across business units within the group. • Provide strategic financial leadership on issues affecting the business. • Recommend and lead efforts to improve ROIC (return on invested capital), working capital and/or growth performance. • Ownership of ‘Quarterly Strategic Review’ (QSR) process, considering sales pipeline and costs analysis to prepare a robust forecast. • Ensure execution of action points from the QSR review process. • Accountable for accurate and timely monthly/quarterly consolidated financial reporting to ensure compliance with internal and external reporting and requirements in accordance with IFRS. • Responsible for the accuracy of revenue recognition, comfortable operating under IFRS15, including being accountable for project accounting and controlling. • Support annual audit process. • Responsible for working with the businesses to assess market pricing, new deal pricing, and sales approach for our products. • Apply best practices to processes, people and systems to affect revenue, profitability and cash-flow, to improve operating efficiency and performance. • Lead, implement and be accountable for introducing project profitability governance process across all businesses. • Lead and implement introduction of new systems and processes such as new financial systems, expense management and other reporting systems. • Responsible for Risk Management process review, effective internal controls, policy standardization and process improvements. • Oversee and improve effective administration processes and systems for company records and contracts. • Stay abreast of trends and regulations to ensure effectiveness and compliance for the finance functions. • Direct management of one direct report (Group Controller). • Partner with Business Unit leaders to scope, interview and select new Business Partner’s for the BUs within the group. • Work with HR partners and BU leaders in talent development, training and star player growth for all finance resources within the group. • Support performance improvement management for all finance business partners in the group. • Work closely with all functional leads to ensure projects bids and contract terms, financial and otherwise, adhere to corporate parameters following Modaxo’s delegation of authority rules. • Responsible for supporting Portfolio CFO on acquisition target analysis, focusing on operational and financial impacts to the investment pre and post acquisition. • Evaluate existing finance resources and assist in the hiring of appropriate staff as required. • Educate the acquired management team on finance topics with a focus on them understanding how it will operationally impact their departments. • Accountable to the migration of finance systems and processes to portfolio best practices, including the training of finance resources. • Review and analyze legal documents for acquired businesses (including customer contracts, leases, and vendor agreements) with a goal of highlighting compliance and financial risks. • Travel domestically and internationally for business process review and acquisition integration or due diligence.

🎯 Requirements

• 5 years of experience comparable role with accounting and controlling scope with people leadership • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel • Ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines • Previous experience working in a multi-unit, multi-P&L environment • High integrity and personal ethics due to sensitive issues and information this role entails • Desire to improve processes and systems rather than just keep the status quo • Strong ability to influence resources within the organisation without direct reporting relationship • Well versed in the adoption and use of AI tools for forecasting and other finance functions • Well organized, detail-oriented and able to work variable hours when required • Desire to support a culture of continuous learning • Energetic, personable and results oriented • A “can-do” attitude taking ownership; prepared to be held accountable for actions, behaviors and targets • Ability to travel 15-25% depending on location. • Beneficial Skills / Experience: CPA • Thorough understanding of IFRS for software (specifically IFRS 15 & 16) • Experience NetSuite is an asset.

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful work • Hard-working colleagues • Intellectual stimulus • Socially creative • Purposefully driven • Many opportunities to learn and grow • We invest in our people.