ActiveCampaign’s category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform helps over 95,000 businesses in 161 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to hundreds of pre-built automations that combine email marketing, marketing automation, CRM, and machine learning for powerful orchestration, segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat, and text. Over 70% of ActiveCampaign’s customers use its 300+ integrations including Shopify, Square, Facebook, Eventbrite, and Salesforce. ActiveCampaign scores higher in customer satisfaction than any other solution in both Marketing Automation and CRM All-In-One on G2.com.

As the fastest-growing SaaS company in Chicago, we are scaling rapidly to keep up with market demand. We are growing all of our teams and looking for people who share our values, deliver innovation frequently and join us in our mission to grow our customer base from 95,000 today to millions.

Reporting to VP of Finance within the Commercial Finance team, your responsibilities will include:

Business Partner to CTO:

Dotted line responsibilities to the CTO and his executive team

Assist in making the Tech & Product teams more efficient while also being a steward of the Company’s financial resources

Forecasting:

Own the forecast for the Tech & Product teams

Constantly be in communication with tech leaders to understand strategic goals and plans to execute. Document those plans in the financial forecast

Understand the drivers of hosting fees

Model our hosting fees and push tech leaders to best control costs

Headcount forecasting / modelling

Financial Analyses:

Review vendor contracts and agreements to maximize AC value

Perform ad-hoc analyses as requested by Finance and Tech leaders

What your day could consist of:

• Review prior month actual results with CTO and supporting team
• Update hosting cost forecast in the Company’s planning software
• Review and negotiate contract terms with key vendors
• Perform ad-hoc analyses
• Work with leaders on quantifying pieces of the strategic plan

What is needed:

• 4 year college degree
• MBA preferred
• Minimum of three years of experience in investment banking, corporate or commercial finance, Big-4 accounting, or management consulting Intellectual curiosity
• Proven understanding of GAAP accounting
• Deal effectively with ambiguities and be able to manage multiple projects through completion, often under tight deadlines, with frequently changing priorities and minimal supervision
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Immaculate attention to detail
• Prior experience in SaaS, software, or high-growth technology companies
• Expert spreadsheet creator

ActiveCampaign is an employee-first culture. We take care of our employees at work and outside of work. We'll share all the details later on but in summary: comprehensive health and wellness benefits including no premiums for employees on our HSA plan, open time off plan, generous 401(k) matching with no vesting, lunch and endless snacks/ beverages, reimbursed commuting, education budgets, ongoing learning and development, a proactive approach to diversity and inclusion, career pathing and lots of swag.