The Senior Director of Finance will advise executive leadership on planning, investments, growth, and organizational priorities. Responsibilities include owning budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, performance reporting, revenue and commercial analytics, and board or investor reporting. The role oversees the Controller and Finance team, strengthens financial controls and order-to-revenue processes, improves systems and automation, and partners with Sales on forecasting, pricing, pipeline, retention, and churn analysis. This fully remote position includes quarterly leadership offsite travel.
One of Pine's portfolio companies, Alliance Solutions Group, is a leading Sage Intacct partner for the construction industry and a fast-growing professional services organization. As Alliance continues to scale, they are investing in the leadership, infrastructure, and insights needed to support their next stage of growth. They're looking for a Senior Director of Finance to serve as a strategic business partner to their leadership team — helping shape how the company plans, measures, and makes decisions across the business.
This role sits at the intersection of financial planning, business intelligence, and business strategy — translating financial and operational data into clear insights that help leaders understand performance, evaluate opportunities, and make informed decisions. The right candidate will bring an Alliance-first mindset, move comfortably between the details and the bigger picture, and help Alliance scale with confidence.
This is a fully remote role reporting directly to the CEO, with a seat on the Executive Leadership Team. Quarterly travel is expected for leadership offsites.
What You'll Do
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the leadership team, bringing a financial and business perspective to company planning, investment decisions, organizational priorities, and growth initiatives.
- Act as the financial business partner to department leaders — developing a deep understanding of their operations, challenges, and opportunities, and translating data into actionable insights that drive stronger, faster decisions.
- Partner with the Head of People & Organizational Effectiveness on workforce and organizational planning, including headcount strategy, organizational design, and resource allocation.
- Build business cases, model scenarios, assess ROI and risk, and clearly articulate tradeoffs so leadership can make informed decisions about where and how Alliance invests for growth.
- Own the company's financial planning and forecasting framework, including the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, long-range planning, and monthly performance reporting.
- Build financial models and business cases that inform strategic decisions — including investments, new offerings, organizational changes, and headcount planning.
- Own performance against key financial and commercial targets, including EBITDA, partner incentives, and recurring revenue. Identify emerging risks and opportunities early.
- Partner with the CEO on board and investor reporting, developing clear financial narratives that communicate performance, outlook, key drivers, and strategic priorities.
- Lead, develop, and partner with the Controller and broader Finance team — establishing strong operating rhythms, controls, reporting standards, and accountability across the function.
- Oversee the financial components of the order-to-revenue lifecycle, ensuring accurate deal booking, billing readiness, provisioning coordination, and strong handoffs across Sales, Finance, and Delivery.
- Continuously evaluate and improve Finance systems, processes, and automation to simplify workflows, strengthen data integrity, and build infrastructure that scales with the business.
- Own revenue and commercial analytics at the strategic level, providing leadership with clear visibility into pipeline health, bookings, revenue performance, renewals, retention, and churn.
- Lead deeper analysis of the drivers behind company performance, including customer and product segmentation, retention and churn trends, expansion opportunities, and service-line economics.
- Support pricing, packaging, and investment decisions by developing financial models that evaluate economics, scalability, ROI, and potential business impact.
- Partner closely with Sales leadership on forecasting and pipeline analytics, improving the predictability of future performance.
Strategic Business Partnership
Financial Planning & Analysis
Controller & Order Processing Oversight
Revenue & Business Intelligence
What They're Looking For
- 7–12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or finance leadership — ideally within a PE-backed, high-growth, or professional services environment.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities, with the ability to independently build and evaluate multi-year forecasts, investment and ROI models, pricing scenarios, and complex business cases.
- Strategic and commercial mindset that extends beyond Finance — you understand how the pieces of a business connect and can translate performance and market dynamics into thoughtful growth recommendations.
- Exceptional executive communication skills — able to distill complex financial information into clear, compelling insights for senior leadership, investors, and board-level audiences.
- Proven leadership capability, with experience developing high-performing teams, setting clear expectations, and creating accountability while empowering others to own their work.
- Strong ownership and a bias toward action — energized by building and evolving functions, proactively identifying opportunities, and creating structure in a growing organization.
- Experience within professional services, SaaS, construction technology, or channel/partner-based business models.
- Experience working in a PE-backed environment with familiarity in investor reporting, value-creation initiatives, and the pace and rigor of private equity ownership.
- Familiarity with Sage Intacct or similar cloud-based financial management platforms.
- Exposure to AI, automation, or technology-enabled business transformation.
- Experience supporting M&A, due diligence, integration, or strategic acquisitions.
- A background that combines strong quantitative thinking with business strategy — whether through finance, economics, engineering, or another analytically rigorous discipline.
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