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Raptor was founded in 2002 with the mission to protect every child, every school, every day. Today, Raptor is a school safety partner for 60,000 schools in 55 countries, providing SaaS and mobile technology as well as comprehensive training and consultation solutions across the entire school safety life cycle, ranging from crisis prevention and preparation to emergency response and recovery. Raptor’s globally integrated product portfolio supports a school’s foundation of safety and wellbeing, including Emergency Management, Campus Movement, Student Wellbeing and Safety Training and Compliance.
About the Role
The Senior Director will serve as a strategic finance leader responsible for building and scaling the analytics, reporting, and systems infrastructure that powers data-driven decision-making across the organization. This role requires deep financial expertise within a SaaS-based (subscription) business model, focused on but not limited to bookings, billings, ARR, customer retention and revenue. The Senior Director will lead initiatives spanning data design and normalization, enterprise financial modeling, systems integration, acquisition integration, and the development of automated reporting and KPI frameworks.
This leader will play a critical role in shaping the company’s top-line financial model, driving organizational visibility, and enabling high-quality insights at scale. They will build and expand on reporting processes to enable deeper insights and scale financial operations to support the company’s rapid growth trajectory.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Strategic Reporting and Analysis
- Design, develop, and scale informative reporting on various financial metrics coupled with action-oriented insight on which stakeholders can make decisions
- Develop daily dashboards focused on top line performance and operational KPIs to deliver insight and visibility on company performance
- Automation of standard reporting package, investor reporting, bank reporting
- Develop financial and operational KPIs to inform leadership and identify actionable recommendations.
- Prepare ad-hoc analysis and reporting for Board and Senior Management as requested.
- Strategic Planning and Forecasting
- Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic decision making, scenario analysis, and long-term enterprise forecasting.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of revenue drivers, customer behavior, and operational efficiencies to identify growth opportunities and performance optimization levers.
- Provide leadership with insights on growth drivers, emerging risks, competitive positioning, and market opportunities.
- Support the development of the annual operating plan, monthly forecasts, and rolling 5-year strategic plan, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
- Monitor global and domestic market trends, competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic indicators to inform strategic decisions.
- Systems Design & Integration
- Partner with Business Systems to design, build, and operationalize a centralized data repository to capture financial and operational information
- Configure and optimize financial systems and tools to meet evolving business requirements and ensure data integrity across platforms
- Champion data management and data quality across the organization
- Own ongoing acquisition integration activity including historic data normalization, customer integration, GL mapping and related systems enhancements
- Optimize Adaptive Insights; FP&A Planning, Reporting and Automation platform
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of financial analysis, revenue operations, business systems or related areas
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or Accounting
- Experience in a private equity backed SAAS company preferred
- Experience with large data sets and the ability to identify & communicate key insights
- Expertise with system design, consolidation, integration and data normalization
- Strong understanding of subscription and ARR/MRR metrics, particularly within K-12 or public sector software markets.
- Exceptional financial modeling skills and experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex data into actionable insights.
- Experience with NetSuite and Adaptive Insights
- Strong ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus
- Experience utilizing AI to increase efficiency and effectiveness is strongly preferred
- You join the gold standard in school safety software.
- You will join a company where innovation and customer collaboration are part of what drives new product development to help keep kids safe.
- You will work with diverse teams made up of some of the best minds in the industry.
- You will get exposure to strong mentorship and leadership that have supported a long history of career advancement opportunities for our employees.
- You will have access to a robust benefits package that includes:
- Remote-first philosophy
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- 11 Paid holidays per year
- Workplace flexibility
- Affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), paid 100% for employee only medical
- 401(k) employer contribution to help you plan for the future
- Company paid life insurance, STD, and LTD
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to personally respond to every applicant or provide individual feedback. Candidates selected to move forward will be contacted directly by our team. We appreciate your interest in Raptor Technologies.
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York or Washington, please reach out to [email protected] for a reasonable estimate of annual base compensation and any eligible incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered to successful candidates for roles may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory criteria including but not limited to relevant professional experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills, and abilities. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.
Raptor Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, compensation, training, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, and termination.
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