The SaaS CFO

The top source for SaaS metrics, finance, and accounting education and templates. The SaaS CFO also offers fractional SaaS CFO services and coaching.

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Founder

Extend

At Extend, we help B2B companies collect cash faster with less manual effort. No more manual emails, Post-it notes, Outlook reminders, and reminders from your CFO.

B2B SaaS finance and accounting teams automate laborious, uncoordinated workflows around account receivables and payment collections. Put your cash collections on auto-pilot and free up staff time.

Co-Founder

The SaaS Academy

The top online and in-person academy teaching SaaS finance and metrics. 3,000+ companies and 15,000+ students enrolled. Join our SaaS community!

Maxio

Maxio helps businesses accelerate growth efficiency with the industry’s only all-in-one billing and financial operations platform purpose-built for B2B SaaS.

Advisor

SaaS Metrics Standards Board

Founding Member

Mobile Solutions

Chief Financial Officer

Cartegraph

Revamped the finance and accounting function for a successful exit to private equity.

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Provided finance and operational leadership to US subsidiary of German-based RIB Group – a leading global provider of ERP software solutions to the construction industry. Responsibilities include all aspects of finance, accounting, tax, treasury, human resources, research and development, services, and support. Hired to bring structure and process improvements to functional areas and execute US and Canadian expansion plan.

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Pinnacle Airlines Corp.

While Director of FP&A at Pinnacle Airlines Corp., Ben implemented an improved FP&A structure and process to support a rapidly growing organization.  Within his first year, he sourced and implemented a new planning and reporting system to move away from an offline, Excel-based system.  Through this technology and process redesign, his team reduced Pinnacle’s annual budget season from three to two month and introduced a detailed, monthly forecasting package.  Other improvements included new management performance reporting through monthly close packages, leading to earlier corrective action of operating variances.  With better data and analysis, his team created a new cost and revenue allocation system to determine profitability by product line and a more sophisticated process to bid on RFP’s.  Ben also developed Pinnacle’s first external finance training course in partnership with the University of Memphis.

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

A.D.A.M., Inc.

As the first financial planning and analysis hire, Ben created many "firsts."  This included a weekly revenue forecast for the CEO using bookings data while applying software revenue recognition standards and a complex financial statement forecasting model.  Ben partnered with product managers on investment decision analysis and product pricing reviews to align R&D and related operating expenses with projected product revenues.  He also decoded customer pricing plans from a previously off-shored process.

Manager, FP&A

The SaaS CFO | The #1 source for SaaS finance education. Video lessons, content, templates, and communities to accelerate your SaaS and career.

WHAT I DO:  I help SaaS companies via fractional SaaS CFO services, coaching, and courses in SaaS metrics and finance.  I help companies achieve financial improvement and transparency via a SaaS finance framework that links operations to finance.

WHO I HELP:  I help SaaS founders, finance/accounting, and investors.

WHY IT WORKS:  Translating the operational story into consumable numbers is the key to driving corporate performance and understanding the economics of SaaS businesses.

WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT: From debits and credits to financial forecasting to M&A, my experience has not just been silo’ed in the accounting or finance track, but both sides of the desk.  My operations background at several airlines has improved my ability to translate operational performance into improved financial understanding and foresight. My on-the-job experience as a SaaS CFO has allowed me to help thousands of SaaS founders and finance teams.

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AVK-SEG LTD

VP of Finance

VP Finance Transformation

trimly

Automating month-end for Xero businesses, and eliminating spreadsheet errors

StratFin

Delivering high-performance finance teams for scaling businesses via my consultancy business.

Director

pawaPay

Short-term engagement focused on identifying efficiencies in a rapidly scaling cross-border fintech group

Transformation Consultant - Finance

Kitt

Finance Transformation; financial modelling; process optimisation; commercial finance; FP&A

Consultant

kleene.ai

Post £10m Series A professionalisation project in the lead finance role in B2B SaaS
Modelling; EMI; R&D; Process; Playbook; Tech Stack optimisation; Automation; Board Reporting; Budgets; Unapproved Options; EMI valuation; etc

Finance Director (Contract)

NHOUSE COMMERCIAL LIMITED

Business strategy; Creation of investment assets including IM; several successful financing rounds; investor communications; R&D; executed strategic share transfer; modelling & evaluation of commercial projects; process implementation

Finance Director

DAZN Group

Interim contract role ending in Jun 2020 supporting FP&A and strategy units with financial modelling & commercial expertise, evaluating new markets, partnerships, pricing, budgeting, process reengineering, cohort modelling, etc
DAZN is a global SaaS OTT sports media service.

Financial Modeller - Strategy (Contract)

Smarter

Successful investment process, associated due diligence process and implementation of financial processes in a startup/scaleup environment.
Consumer electronics, SaaS, software platform, R&D tax, strategy advisory, process design & implementation, margin analysis, xero, tax planning, due diligence, financial reporting, financial modelling

St. James’s Place Wealth Management

Developed and led the financial services finance team in post-acquisition environment to support a growing partnership (+50% YoY), finance transformation (significantly reducing month end lead times), process design & implementation, leadership, mentor, business partner, business sale, regulated environment, stakeholder management, loan evalaution

Head of Financial Operations - Asia

Trimly is a Xero app that automates forecasting, deferred revenue, prepayments, balance sheet recs, and more, trimming up to 33% from a finance teams month-end close process and reducing spreadsheet errors

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