Director of FP&A

We are looking for a Director of FP&A to join our growing finance team, and build out our FP&A function.

With a deep understanding of financial planning, modeling, and analysis, the Director of FP&A will partner with the leadership team to build the Company’s fiscal plans and processes, including budgeting and variance analyses, forecasting and long-term planning, defining and measuring business metrics and performance, cash flow projections, and other ad-hoc strategic business analyses.

As a Director of FP&A, you will hold a high level of responsibility and trust within the organization, reporting directly to the CFO.

Role and Responsibilities:

• well as reporting and control activities to monitor and assess the Company’s financial performance.
• Conduct financial analysis to support data-driven decision-making on strategic initiatives, pricing, investments, resource allocation, and other business opportunities.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual BvA processes and prepare ongoing reports to the company’s stakeholders.
• Manage and build the company’s annual operating plan (budget) and multi-year plans
• Provide accurate and timely reports to stakeholders, delivering insight regarding business metrics and key performance indicators.
• Assist in the preparation of presentations and reports for executive leadership and external stakeholders, such as management reports, Board presentations, and investor updates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams both within finance (Accounting, Bookkeeping, Procurement) and other departments (Business Operations, GTM, R&D) in the organization.
• Lead ad-hoc projects and analyses, including defining and improving internal processes.
  
  

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, with at least 2 managerial position (such as FP&A Director/ Manager), preferably in a tech company
• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics/Accounting/Business Management or other quantitative field from an acknowledged university; MBA - an advantage
• Strong proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting best practices, with a deep understanding of SaaS metrics
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel - required
• Experience working with relevant software and systems, including ERP (preferably Netsuite), Salesforce, and other BI tools - strongly preferred
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate financial concepts to non-finance professionals.
• Proven project management experience and self-learning ability, with a hands-on approach
• Analytical with strong business acumen
• Fluent English (spoken and written)
  
  

About Us:

AI21 Labs is a first mover generative AI company co-founded by AI luminaries and serial entrepreneurs Prof. Amnon Shashua (Hebrew U, Mobileye), Prof. Yoav Shoham (Stanford, Google), and Ori Goshen (8200, Crowdx) with the mission to empower businesses with state-of-the-art LLMs and AI applications.

Knowing that no single LLM can be the best at all tasks, AI21 has developed new types of hyper focused language models that each excel at a specific capability. In November 2023 AI21 Labs closed an oversubscribed Series C funding of $208 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion, which included investments from Google, Nvidia, Intel Capital, and Comcast Ventures. AI21 was among the first companies to bring generative AI to the masses and in addition to its enterprise solutions it also offers a popular application - Wordtune, used by millions of professionals.