Director, Corporate FP&A and Reporting

SoundCloud is a next-generation music entertainment company powered by an ecosystem of artists, fans, and thriving communities. As one of the world’s most influential cultural platforms, SoundCloud holds a singular market position as both a music-streaming service with the largest catalogue of music, and an artist services and distribution business to help artists grow long-term, successful careers.   SoundCloud is looking for a passionate, talented, fearless, music loving leader to serve as the head of corporate financial reporting. The ideal candidate will provide financial, business and analytical advisory services for financial accounting/reporting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, M&A due diligence and accounting integration, KPI’s/Metrics, cost management, investor relations and operational deal support.

Reporting into the SVP of Finance - the Director, Corporate FP&A and Reporting  will have the responsibility of developing and elevating the financial reporting function with the primary goal of making the Executive Team and Investor decision-making process more effective and efficient. This role will partner with the Controller (based in Berlin) as well as the  business unit finance leads for each operating unit to garner a complete understanding of business performance (financial and non-financial) and produce insightful consolidated and consolidating financial results, financial KPIs, and non-financial KPIs to be utilized by the Executive Team. This role will also play a critical role in the financial diligence of M&A targets as well as post-close financial reporting integration of acquired companies (in close partnership with the Controller).   

With a critical eye for engaging data to drive actionable business insights, this is a highly visible and key member of the finance organization. In addition, the Director of Corporate Finance will play a key role in the company’s short- and long-term planning, budgeting, and alignment of overall business strategy against the company’s financial plan. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Controller to ensure the monthly financial close calendar is consistently met, and own the conversion of monthly IFRS-based financial statements to US-based financial packages to be utilized for managerial purposes 
• Provide budget-to-actual variance analyses for flash, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, investor reporting for the Company, as well as at functional and cost center levels
• Partner with key leads within each operating unit to aggregate financial and non-financial KPIs to be included in monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to the Executive Team and investors, including competitive benchmarking
• Leverage Oracle Fusion (ERP system), Adaptive Insights (planning tool), and reporting systems to improve internal management reporting
• Own the roll-up and final product from the annual budgeting and strategic planning process, including stress-testing and iterating on draft planning exercises with business unit leads
• Assist the SVP of Finance to refine long-range strategic modeling and investor communications
• Assist SVP of Finance with Investor Relations management, ESOP and cap table management, including:
  • Tracking and reporting of ESOP pool (Shareworks)
  • Obtaining SBC based compensation entries for annual expensing as part of audit
  • 409a valuations
  • Primary Assistance in responding to Investor questions and inquiries
  • Distribution of monthly and quarterly reporting documents
  • Annual K1 documentation for US investors
• Assist legal and accounting as needed on the following topics:
  • Global legal entity governance and compliance
  • Impact of business operations on tax strategy, legal entity setup & maintenance 

Experience and Background:

The successful candidate will be hard-working, highly ethical, data driven and able to think and act both strategically and independently, and drive projects forward.  The candidate will have experience in multinational operations and understand the nuances of multi-unit, global consolidations. This position operates in a fast-paced environment and must be able to support senior leaders through effective communication, logical reasoning, and data focused solutions. The right individual will further establish processes, frameworks, and systems to scale the corporate finance function with the growth of the company.

Furthermore, the Director, Corporate FP&A and Reporting  is a proven finance leader who possesses 8 or more years of finance, accounting, professional managerial experience. They will have highly developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including outstanding presentation skills and ability to communicate clearly, concisely and pers